Co-Tenancy: How Neighboring Tenants Influence Your Performance
Why Co-Tenancy Should Be a Key Part of Your Site Selection Strategy When it comes to choosing a retail or restaurant location, many brands focus on the basics: visibility, traffic...
How to Choose the Right Location for a Multi-Unit Rollout
Location, Location, Location! Smart Growth Starts with Smart Locations Expanding from one to many locations is an exciting leap, but also a high-stakes one. Whether you’re scaling a restaurant, retail...
Designing for Throughput: What Restaurant Layouts Get Wrong
Busy Restaurant Throughput: The Silent Driver of Restaurant Success When restaurant operators think about design, they often focus on branding, ambiance, and customer experience. But there's a less visible—and far...
Partnering With a GC Early: Why It Saves Time & Money
Restaurant under construction Partnering With a GC Early: Why It Saves Time & Money in Retail & Restaurant Projects Meta Title: Why Retail & Restaurant Developers Should Bring in a...
Ghost Kitchens & the Changing Footprint of Restaurants
Explore how ghost kitchens are reshaping restaurant development, site selection, and commercial real estate strategy in the post-pandemic era. The Rise of Ghost Kitchens Ghost kitchens—also known as cloud kitchens, virtual kitchens,...
Growth Strategies — How Good Is Your Pro Forma?
Having spent time on both the tenant side, at the operations and corporate levels, and on the brokerage side as a tenant rep; it has given me a 360' view...
Growth Strategies — Cannibalization and Spatial Studies
How close is too close before you impact the sales of another site? How do you learn the optimal spacing for multiple sites in the same market? Going fast, without...
Restaurant & Retail Site Selection (Keeping it Old School)
I am going to age myself here, but I remember counting cars for traffic data with a handheld counter. Sitting in a parking lot and counting customers and watching whether...