This upscale casual restaurant is known for high-end comfort food, beer and wine located in a rapidly developing residential corridor of Boise, Idaho. Acquired as a distressed operation, ownership has spent the past three years executing a full turnaround: extensive kitchen and dining room upgrades, a complete rebrand, menu redevelopment, and implementation of a food-cost management system giving a new owner immediate visibility into purchasing and margins. That investment is now showing results. The restaurant is generating approximately $900,000 in annual sales, with the majority of recent months profitable or near break-even. This is a marked improvement over the reinvestment-heavy years that preceded it. This is basically an asset sale.
- Asking Price:
- $119,900 Furniture / Fixtures and Inventory / Stock included
- Sales Revenue:
- $838,310
- Cash Flow:
- $37,176
Property Information
- Real Estate:
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Lease
- Premises Details:
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The Business operates from a 2,347-square-foot leased space (excluding the outdoor patio) in a rapidly developing residential corridor of Boise, Idaho, surrounded by new residential construction. There is seating for 50 in the dining area, 24 on the patio and 10 at the bar. The facility is a fully built-out, turnkey restaurant and bar space, eliminating the cost and lead time of a ground-up build-out for a new owner. The dining room opens directly onto a large, dog-friendly outdoor patio, creating a distinctive indoor/outdoor dining atmosphere that is a signature feature of the concept. The Business operates under a favorable lease with approximately seven years remaining, providing a new owner with long-term location stability at a manageable occupancy cost.
Business Operation
- Management type:
- This business is owner operated.
- Expansion Potential:
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This opportunity offers several clear, largely untapped paths to growth. Ownership has identified a planned "Phase 3" expansion; third-party delivery, catering, and a mobile wine bar/event service that has not yet been launched despite existing customer demand, representing incremental revenue built entirely on top of the current operating base. Combined with current sales momentum, ownership projects these channels could push annual sales beyond $1 million. There is also a labor-efficiency opportunity: current ownership operates alongside other business interests and is only able to be present part-time, whereas a hands-on owner-operator willing to work more hours directly in the business could reduce reliance on management labor and improve margins. Together with the surrounding area's ongoing residential development, these factors position a new, fully engaged owner to build meaningfully on the operational and brand foundation already in place.
- Competition / Market:
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This business competes within Boise's active and growing casual-to-upscale dining market, which includes a mix of independent restaurants, wine bars, and regional/national concepts competing for the same neighborhood and recreational-area traffic. Rather than competing purely on price or volume, the business has differentiated itself through a focused niche, high end comfort food menu paired with a curated wine and beer program that few directly comparable concepts offer in its immediate trade area. Its combination of an established brand, an engaged social media and influencer following, a proprietary customer loyalty database, and a distinctive indoor/outdoor patio setting creates meaningful barriers that a new entrant would need considerable time and marketing investment to replicate. The surrounding area's rapid residential growth is also expanding the overall customer base faster than new competing concepts have entered, giving it a first-mover advantage with the neighborhood's newest residents.
- Reasons for selling:
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Sellers own another business and have not been able to dedicate the time.
- Trading hours:
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Mon-Thurs 11-9; F 11-10; Sat 10:30-10
- Employees:
- 4 FT/15 PT
- Years established:
- 8
Other Information
- Support & training:
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Will train for 4 weeks @ $0 cost.
- Furniture / Fixtures value:
- $107,675 - included in the asking price
- Inventory / Stock value:
- $10,000 - included in the asking price
