Monday, March 18, 2013

Dan Joins the Team

Employee #2 is now fully on board. Dan and I are now head of the Sparrow expansion project. We have tasked out portions of the business that we will complete either separately or jointly. Things are going as planned and I can see more structure being implemented. We've been scouting places all over LA with our leasing broker.

Some locations of interest include:

Beverly Hills
Santa Monica
Melrose
La Brea
Culver City
Westlake
Silverlake
Hollywood

Never realized how taxing it is running all around LA. I love it though. I was built for this job. Here are couple gutted out restaurant spaces we may be interested.

1500 Sqft in Culver City
1100 Sqft in Beverly Hills

Learning quite a bit about the formal leasing process. Our broker seems a bit hesitant to show us places because we are a new entity. We aren't an established restaurant and in our position, only money talks. Though I know we still need to do our due diligence about the area demographics and nearby competitors, I like these locations. The leasing process is quite lengthy and a lot goes into looking over the terms, making sure the building complies with restaurant space city requirements. I am brand spanking new to this side of the business but I'm doing my homework everyday to catch up to speed.

Architect is scheduled to meet us in the middle of the week. Will be learning more about the build out process then. In the meantime, I am continually building the operations manual.

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