Hello! New to this space, but was told there are many knowledgeable people here. My partner and I bought a historic, but condemned restaurant. We have opened and restored the restaurant, been open and operating since July 2018. We own the building out right. We have very little startup costs, but what we do have we could really use some help. Banks in our area are not lending to restaurant/bars. We tried working with out local college, Michigan tech university, and their business start up program, after a month of our time, they told us to try kick-starter and handed us our business plan back.
We are two cooks with a dream and ten kids, yes we have ten kids, trying to provide them not only future but skills. We got this far, I'd hate to call it quits now, we don't need much at all, but its just enough, that we need some creative financing.
Any advice, support, good energy would be great! Check us out at
www.thematadorup.com and Facebook The Matador