re: How would you invest 100K in food/drink

For that kind of money I think I'd buy a bit of stock in a winery in lieu of the actual wine.

Hundred thousand dollars worth of chateau La Tour '45

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BR needs a good bread bakery

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This is what I always wanted to do. If I won the lottery, I'd open a bakery very similar to La Boulangerie on Magazine and never care if it made a dime. I'd just make perfect bread and enjoy baker hours.

You can definitely open a bakery for under $100k if you don't get hooked into the idiotic idea of buying all brand new equipment. Get quality used items and use the rest for starting capital, you'll need it.

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That's a late start if you plan to open at 5.

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Exactly... frick that. Working nights suck.

I'd use it as the down payment on a dairy queen or chik-fil-a franchise. I know exactly where i'd put it, too.

people go to dairy queen?

Not sure if either of these places are franchises (don't think they are yet), but I've eaten at both in Philly and think they would kill in the BR and/or New Orleans area.

- Sweetgreens: basically an Izzo's for salads. Really fresh ingredients, quick, and some pretty creative menu items that you can customize.

- Hai Street Kitchen: Asian place that serves rice bowls, salads, and what is essentially a sushi burrito. No raw fish menu items yet, but the possibility is there. I had a chicken wrap/handroll that was excellent

- WaWa: Blows Subway and Quiznos out of the water.

My advice (so he wouldn't waste his money) is to start cooking at festivals to see if he enjoys cooking for the public. This would be a minimal investment and could get him experience in preparing food for the public. Cooking at home is not the same as cooking in a restaurant setting.

Next step would be a food truck so you could sell it if it doesn't work out. If you lease a brick and mortar restaurant, you will probably have a lot of investment costs that you will not recoup if you shut it down.

If he is just looking to invest and not actually work it, I would find someone with a passion and talent for opening up a new restaurant and help them manage and oversee it.

Just post pics of a husky Baw drinking gay red wine.

K thanks