A Grille Restaurant With an Unique Culinary Concept and Style

Opportunity Snapshot

  • Country: USA USA
  • Industry: Food, Beverages, Tabacco
  • Stage: Start-up
  • Investment size: $220,000 / min. $40,000
  • ROI: 10% in 5 years
  • Type of investment: Debt

Investment Opportunity

The restaurant will offer a taste of the islands from Caribbean-inspired appetizers, entrees, desserts, legendary cocktails & enjoyable island rhythm.

To dine at our restaurant is to embark upon a journey of culinary exploration. Our talented team takes their inspiration from the plentiful abundance of heady flavors of the Caribbean Islands along with an international repertoire.

The restaurant will be a 60 seat fine-dining high end restaurant with a 30 seat lounge. With a focus on the eastern Caribbean menu with a touch of East Asian influence. We will be located in the booming, and rapidly expanding, Downtown, Portland, Oregon. The restaurant promises to entertain your soul as well as your palate in a hip & classy environment. This installment will specialize in Nu Caribbean cuisine or what can be dubbed “Oregon Savvy Caribbean Cuisine” . The menu will embrace the cooking styles and techniques of several Caribbean islands.

Set on one level the restaurant’s décor will be described as contemporary yet natural with a spacious dining room, boasts bamboo surrounding and seaside scenery lined walls; while the Rhum Lounge, on the eastern corner, invites you with its subdued lighting, party and event style interior with surround sounds like Reggae, Calypso, Salsa & Bachata music that will further enchant you as you sip one of restaurant's many tropical drinks.
Caribbean inspired food, handcrafted tropical drinks, and a vibrant island atmosphere will let you feel a million miles from home, any day of the week.

At our restaurant, you will go on a culinary voyage of discovery, you will explore island flavors, discover legendary cocktails, and feel the energy of the surround sounds. Like sunshine on your face, it will be warm and welcoming and a place to gather with friends and share a tasty plate or two.

Our bartenders will make legendary exotic cocktails with an island taste. Many of these spirited drinks will come with a story to tell. Recipes gathered from the bars where they were first made famous, these handcrafted creations will be our signature island enjoyments. Here’s to sunshine and quenching your thirst for a bit of adventure.

Our restaurant will be a place where old friends, new friends, happy faces, rum cocktails in hand, in a breathtaking island surrounding filled with laughter, excitement, jaw-dropping natural beauty, marvelous food and amazing experiences.
The restaurant should be your paradise!

The service will be relaxed, very friendly and correct. We will hire the best people available, training, motivating and encourage them, and thereby retaining the friendliest most efficient staff possible. Our management team will comprise of individuals whose backgrounds consist of over 20 years’ experience in food, restaurant, hotel, catering, management, finance, marketing and art.

With a start-up expenditure of $250,000 we can generate $1,085,465 in sales by the end of year two, and produce good net profits by the end of year three.

Competitive Advantage

Our competitive edge will be the menu, the concept, the uniqueness, the chef, the environment, the management, the service and our friendly place! We will have an international menu and our food will be made with the freshest ingredients and produce available.

The owner has an excellent taste for what fine dining is and requires. Our environment will be elegant and comfortable and our decor will be warm and relaxing. Great service is very important to us. The management and servers will handle every detail to make customer's special evening even more special! All this and our great atmosphere will make customers want to come back again and again!

Furthermore, there are 500 eating places in downtown Portland but none offers the Caribbean theme, atmosphere or concept as what’s being proposed by the restaurant will offer a taste of the islands from Caribbean-inspired appetizers, entrees, desserts, legendary cocktails & enjoyable island rhythm. so yes we are unique. We also plan on delivering the best food at the best price with the highest level of service.

Our restaurant will offer a taste of the islands from Caribbean-inspired appetizers, entrees, desserts, legendary cocktails & enjoyable island rhythm. It will represent the very definition of value.

Rationale for the deal

Facts about Portland
• Portland Metro population ranks 24th nationally.
• City of Portland population: 619,000; Portland Metro Area: 2.35 million
• More than 96,000 employees work in downtown Portland
• 140,000 residents live in a three-mile radius of downtown
• 33 % of the area’s adults have a college education or higher, compared to the national average of 24 %
• 30,000 students attend Portland State University downtown
• Visitors made approximately 8.4 million trips in 2014
• Visitors stayed an average of 2.1 days
• Visitors spent $4.6 billion in 2014, with $390 million going to retail goods
• Average visitor age is 42 years
• 25 percent of tourists have an average income between $50,000 and $75,000 per year
• There are 13 four-star, luxury hotels in downtown Portland, with 5,000 hotel rooms
• Visitors spent $921 million on food and beverage services in 2014

Use of financing

$250,000 of funding is needed over the next year for renovations, furniture, kitchen equipment, liquor license, food & restaurant supplies, legal fees, working capital, marketing and personnel

Opportunity for the investor

We are seeking to raise $220,000.00 from investors. Our preferred instrument will be five year subordinated notes with an attractive coupon rate of 10% for the first three years and 12% for the remaining two years. At the end of five years the investors' notes will have matured and original principal plus a 2% premium and the final interest payment will be made.

The business plan is available to all interested investors upon signing a confidentiality agreement.

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