Let's get together and buy the Speckled Butter Bean
 

We could start a resident owned restaurant and raise the money by selling shares.

How much money would we need to raise? ;)

Make it a breakfast place all day and I'll be there :icon_hungry:

I think a soup/salad place like Sweet Tomatoes would be great! So many of us have to eat healthier nowadays and it is a real challenge to get away from the meats, carbs and sodium at traditional restaurants. :icon_hungry:

"Make me the sergeant in charge of the booze."

Add a vegetarian and vegan menu page and really eat healthier.

If so put us down for a share

Is it for sale?

yup...empty building

or start a villages owned venue like a 'katie belles'?

Retired
 

I'm retired. Sounds like too much work!barf

I had a friend once who had opened several restaurants over the years. I asked him his advice for someone wanting to start one. He said, "borrow about $150,000, get it all in cash, then go out in your back yard and set it on fire in your BBQ. You'll lose all your money, but at least you'll do it quickly and have it over with."

Seriously, I believe owning a restaurant is one of the most difficult businesses in the world. I was reading through the Villages Gourmet Club page the other day and noticed in the description of many restaurants when it came to location it would say things like, "it's in Colony Plaza, where Bob's used to be and before that it was Hong Kong take out, and before that...."

As to this place, I would have thought that TV would have bought it up quickly. But with all the talk in the last few days about where they might build next and what properties they own, they all seem to be east of Brownwood rather than west. Oh well, who knows.

yes a risk venture, never buy try a short term lease with options to extend if it works.

Goto Kickstarter.com , make your case, getyour investors. GOOD LUCK. YOUWILL NEED IT.

First thing to do, if anyone is at all serious, is to prepare a business plan. Restaurants have a very high failure rate. Protect yourself by planning well. Your local branch of SCORE can provide advice (see gainesville.score.org)

Not sure what the SALE price is, but I heard the RENT was 17K per month. Yes, $17,000.

WOW did they really shut down the Speakled Butterbean? Thought they would start booming with The Villages expanding that way.

Yep.
https://www.talkofthevillages.com/fo...terbean-66085/

All negotiable .....it's the ART OF THE DEAL

Hooters, can't loose

With a Viagra dispenser

I'll take a share in the meals I eat if it's a breakfast place. :jester:

The restaurant business is tough to own as it invovles a lot of hours and work not to mention all the competition.

Hooters is actually a great idea. I mean, for money making...

Loose for sure............................

Hooters would certainly decrease the crowding here. I'd predict within one year, it would result in 10% of the married men being divorced and sent packing, or restricted to home by their wives, 10% of the general male population dropping dead in the restaurant, and another 10% stroking out from too much Viagra purchased immediately after a trip to Hooters.

Have you ever been to a Hooters? Hooters features waitresses with tight tee shirts and short shorts. You see much more at the beach.

How about a Villages Hooters, though? Women residents of The Villages as waitresses in the tight tee shirts and short shorts. :22yikes:

Yikes! I never would have guessed $17,000.

Thanks to everyone for the replies. To tell the truth, I'm not really interested in starting a business of any kind. Those days are over. I will soon be 72 and I don't need the aggravation. If I had extra money to put at risk, I would sooner invest in some restaurant-chain on the New York stock exchange. But I don't even do that because I don't like investing in restaurants.

But it's fun to think about and I do have an idea that is similar to what someone mentioned above. Picture something like Subway but instead of building a sub you would build a soup. Soupway? There would be a couple of basic soups (broth) and you would tell the clerk what to add, like garbanzo beans or red beans, pasta, rice or barley etc.. It would be a one dish meal. The soup would not contain sodium but there would be salt- shakers on every table....so knock yourself out.

There you go, a spectacular million dollar franchise idea that anyone can start and become a household name - Soupway?
P.S. These soups would be vegan and therefore they would be healthy and relatively inexpensive.

I like hooters, the restaurant of course.

Never invest in anything that eats. (customers)

And here I was thinking this post was about how to cook these pretty beans! Guess we are sorry we missed the resturant!

You don't have to go to Gainesville to get sba counseling from SCORE. My husband is a SCORE counselor. He's affiliated with SCORE in Eustis, I believe, and also counsels around the country by phone. The Villages SCORE office is no longer there, but their counselors have hooked up with other chapters nearby.

That's not funny, buggyone:mad:

Count me innnn
 

we need a hooters here that's what we should put in

I love restaurants and dining out but never ever would own one.
Too much work.
Years ago read Anthiny Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential
Quite entertainng and an eye opener on the restaurant ownership topic!

No Chance
 

I have been in the food business for over 30 years and although the business may sound glamorous it is very hard work and the return is limited unless you have a high volume restaurant.

Do you know how to make a small fortune in the restaurant business ?

A. Start with a large one.

Hooters are cool but the latest is Tilted Kilt Pub & Eatery
I hear there's one in Ocala...
While the Tilted Kilt concept has its roots deep in the rousing tradition of Scottish, Irish and English Pubs, it actually first came to life in America’s own sin city, Las Vegas. The brainchild of successful restaurateur Mark DiMartino, Tilted Kilt was conceived to be a contemporary, Celtic-themed sports Pub staffed with beautiful servers in sexy plaid kilts and matching plaid bras.

I guess you're not much of a chef if you think a couple of basic broths with 'stuff' added make a soup. Good soup is an amalgamation of flavors that are simmered together.

"No soup for you - 6 months!" :)

But I like the imagination - other ideas?

Hooters....figures. Men think with two things. One is their wallet.

On a lighter note: it could be called "Boobway".

Butterbeanery is sold sorry about your idea fpr Droopers I mean Hooters. It'll be an Irish Bar/Resteraunt soon.

In time for St. Patty's day???? WAAAHHHOOOOOOO!!!! Finally, a place I will love!!!! :ho:

There is a sign on the door of The Speckled Butterbean that says "THE IRISH ARE COMING"

I was at Polly's Pantry in Wildwood, and Polly said it is already spoken for by The Irish. She was not sure who they were or what they were going to do with it.

The Hooters in Pittsburgh flopped.I mean they went out of business.