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Restaurants & Bars · Los Angeles

Sell My Restaurant in Los Angeles

From Downtown and the Westside to Hollywood, the harbor, and the Eastside, Los Angeles is one of the largest and most competitive restaurant markets in the country. I help city owners sell for full value on the concept, the license, and the lease or real estate.

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The Los Angeles Market

Why Los Angeles restaurants sell well

Los Angeles offers enormous restaurant demand, a deep buyer pool, and the region's highest real estate values.

A huge, diverse, dining-obsessed population supports every concept across the city, and prime corridors command premium leases and real estate. A transferable liquor license can carry major value, and an owned building is often a large part of a sale, with some sites carrying redevelopment potential.

Los Angeles draws the full range of buyers, from first-time owner-operators and chefs to groups and investors. Clean books, a strong lease or owned real estate, and a transferable license drive top offers.

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What I Handle

The moving parts of selling a restaurant in Los Angeles

A restaurant is several things in one transaction. These are the pieces I manage so your deal reaches the closing table.

The Liquor License

An on-sale ABC license transfers through escrow and can be a major asset. I coordinate the transfer so service continues.

Equipment & Leaseholds

Kitchen equipment, hood and grease systems, build-out, and fixtures, the tangible assets a buyer steps into.

The Lease or Real Estate

A strong, assignable lease, or the building itself when you own it, one of the biggest value drivers. Real estate is handled under my DRE license, #02372118.

Concept & Brand

Whether the concept, recipes, and name transfer, or a buyer plans to convert, shapes the price and the buyer pool.

Permits & Compliance

Health permits, ADA, hood and grease, and any entertainment or patio permits, documented for a smooth transfer.

Revenue & Margins

Sales, food and labor cost, and any catering or delivery income, the numbers buyers and lenders underwrite.

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For Buyers

Buying a restaurant in Los Angeles

Los Angeles is where many buyers find their first, or their next, restaurant, and I help them buy well.

I help buyers evaluate the concept and revenue, the furniture, fixtures, and equipment, the ABC liquor license, the lease or the real estate, and the permits across Los Angeles, and line up SBA or conventional financing. Whether you want a turnkey restaurant to operate, a bar with a valuable license, or a building with the business attached, I will help you buy the right one at the right terms.

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Also serving Los Angeles: gas stations, car washes, self-storage facilities, laundromats, hotels and motels, RCFEs and assisted living, and auto repair shops, plus other businesses that come with real estate. Ask me what is available.
Frequently Asked Questions

Selling a restaurant in Los Angeles, answered

It is valued on the earnings of the business, a multiple of seller's discretionary earnings, plus your furniture, fixtures, and equipment, a transferable liquor license, and, when you own the building, the real estate valued separately, which is significant given high LA values. A valuation on your actual financials gives the real figure.

Yes. An enormous, dining-driven population and a deep buyer pool keep well-located LA restaurants in demand, and prime locations, valuable liquor licenses, and owned real estate all attract strong interest. Clean books turn that demand into competitive offers.

Sometimes. On scarce, valuable LA land, an owned restaurant building can attract buyers interested in the real estate or the location for another concept or use. I evaluate both the restaurant as a business and the site as real estate, and market to whichever delivers the strongest price.

Yes. Your sale stays confidential. The restaurant is marketed without naming the location, and every buyer is screened and signs a non-disclosure agreement before they learn which restaurant is for sale, protecting your staff, your revenue, and your standing with any brand or franchisor.

Martin Navarro, Business Broker
About Your Broker

Martin Navarro, Business Broker

Martin Navarro is a California business broker, DRE #02372118, and a U.S. Marine Corps veteran. He is bilingual in English and Spanish and a member of the California Association of Business Brokers (CABB), the International Business Brokers Association (IBBA), ACG Los Angeles (Association for Corporate Growth), and the Santa Clarita Valley Chamber of Commerce. Gas stations, car washes, self-storage, and other businesses with real estate are a specialty within his full-service brokerage practice. Martin serves business owners across Los Angeles, the San Fernando Valley, the Inland Empire, Ventura, and Orange County, and throughout Southern California.

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