🍽️ Restaurants & Hospitality, Round 2: 10 Businesses For Sale 🍽️
Round one of our food and beverage issue drew more replies than any vertical except trades, so here is round two with fresh inventory. Five brand-new restaurant sellers joined the pipeline since then, including a Pittsburgh operation asking less than one year of its own reported cash flow. Restaurants remain the cheapest category in small business acquisition for one reason: everyone is scared of them, so the profitable ones trade at a discount. Reply to this email with the deal number(s) and we will send you the details.
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🥨 Featured: Food & Beverage Business (Pittsburgh, PA) - $140K asking against $204K reported cash flow
🏨 Featured: Lakeside Inn & Tavern (Stony Lake, MI) - $200K cash flow, owner fully retiring
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#78 - Food & Beverage Business | Pittsburgh, PA
📍 Location: Pittsburgh, PA 🏷️ Asking Price: $140,000 🆔 Business ID: Confidential 💰 Cash Flow: $204,000 (owner-reported SDE) 📈 Gross Revenue: $372,000 📊 Business Type: Food & Beverage 🏠 Ownership: Owner Operated 🔥 Asking Below One Year of Cash Flow! | Seller Financing Yes! | Owner Relocating!
✅ Key Highlights:
• $140,000 buys $204,000 in owner-reported annual cash flow. If diligence confirms the number, this pays for itself in about eight months.
• A 55% reported margin on $372,000 in revenue points to a lean, focused operation rather than a bloated full-service build.
• The owner is relocating and said yes to seller financing up front. Price plus financing plus urgency rarely appear in the same listing.
• Pittsburgh's food scene keeps winning national attention while its rents remain a fraction of coastal markets.
🚀 Growth Opportunities:
• Extended hours, catering, and delivery platforms are unexploited levers at this scale.
• The margin profile suggests a concept that could franchise or replicate across the metro.
📌 Summary:
The cheapest cash flow in this issue, priced by an owner who needs to move, not by a broker testing the market. Verify the SDE first; then move faster than the next reader.
🔒 Confidentiality: Financials available upon NDA.
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#53 - Lakeside Inn & Tavern | Stony Lake, MI
📍 Location: Stony Lake, MI 🏷️ Asking Price: TBD 🆔 Business ID: Confidential 💰 Cash Flow: $200,000 📈 Gross Revenue: ~$1,000,000 📊 Business Type: Destination Inn, Restaurant & Tavern 🏠 Ownership: Owner Operated 🔥 Three Revenue Lines! | Destination Lakeside Location! | Owner Is 71 and Fully Retiring!
✅ Key Highlights:
• Lakeside hospitality businesses draw customers who plan the trip around them. That is a moat a strip-mall restaurant will never have.
• Roughly $1M in revenue with $200,000 in cash flow across lodging, food, and bar.
• Rooms, kitchen, and tavern each carry different margins and different seasonality, which smooths the year.
• The owner is 71 and stepping away completely on a 3-6 month timeline.
🚀 Growth Opportunities:
• Weddings and private events are the highest-margin use of a lakeside property and are often underbooked by owner-operators.
• Shoulder-season packages extend a summer business into a nine-month one.
📌 Summary:
An operating business attached to a genuinely scarce location. Ask us about the real estate structure; it shapes both the price and the financing.
🔒 Confidentiality: Financials available upon NDA.
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🕵🏼♀️ Direct-From-Owner Pipeline: Food & Hospitality
Every listing below came straight through our seller intake. These owners contacted us directly; none of these are broker listings. Figures are owner-reported and verified during diligence. Reply with the deal number(s) to request an introduction.
🍽️ Full Service
#79 - Restaurant | McCormick, SC
📍 McCormick, South Carolina
🏷️ Asking: ~$950,000 | 💰 Cash Flow: $100,000 - $150,000 | 📈 Revenue: $1,000,000
📝 New to the pipeline. Seven-figure top line near the Savannah Lakes region. Health-driven sale; owner open to structure.
#87 - Restaurant | San Marcos, CA
📍 San Marcos, California
🏷️ Asking: $350,000 | 💰 Cash Flow: Disclosed in diligence | 📈 Revenue: $900,000
📝 New to the pipeline. North San Diego County restaurant with a $900K top line. Health-driven sale.
#56 - High-Volume Italian Cafe | New Hartford, NY
📍 New Hartford, New York
🏷️ Asking: $200,000 | 💰 Cash Flow: $230,000 | 📈 Revenue: $3,900,000 (owner-reported)
📝 Asking below annual cash flow. Retirement sale, ASAP, seller financing on the table.
🥡 Counter Service & Takeout
#75 - Restaurant | Baltimore, MD
📍 Baltimore, Maryland
🏷️ Asking: $300,000 | 💰 Cash Flow: Break-even (owner-reported) | 📈 Revenue: $500,000
📝 Turnaround play with a half-million top line. Retiring owner offering seller financing.
#82 - Food & Hospitality Business | Philadelphia, PA
📍 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
🏷️ Asking: $200,000 | 💰 Cash Flow: $80,000 | 📈 Revenue: $150,000
📝 New to the pipeline. Owner moving abroad and priced to hand over the keys at 2.5x.
#93 - First-Year Food Business | Detroit, MI
📍 Detroit, Michigan
🏷️ Asking: $100,000 | 📈 Revenue: $86,000 (first year)
📝 New to the pipeline. Young concept whose owner cannot sustain the hours. Sweat-equity entry point.
#43 - Pizza & Ice Cream Shop | Greenwich
📍 Greenwich
🏷️ Asking: $130,000 | 💰 Cash Flow: $175,000 | 📈 Revenue: $650,000
📝 Two concepts under one roof, priced below one year of cash flow. Owner relocating; seller financing available.
🏔️ Destination
#76 - Restaurant | Stratton, ME
📍 Stratton, Maine (Sugarloaf country)
🏷️ Asking: $975,000 | 💰 Cash Flow: $125,000 | 📈 Revenue: $275,000
📝 Mountain-town restaurant in a four-season recreation corridor. Retirement sale; ask us what backs the price.
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Issue #241 | August 31st, 2026
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