2025 has been all about growth, expansion, and leveling up your hospitality business's game. In our Spring semester of webinars, we've covered many different ways in which you can grow your business - building a hospitality group, buying your restaurant's real estate, getting into the...

Things are moving fast in the world of New York hospitality licensing – are you keeping up? From shifting timelines to new hurdles with community boards and outdoor dining approvals, the rules of the game are evolving. Whether you're expanding your empire or just trying...

You work every day to build and grow the brand of your restaurants, bars, and hotels. You are spending money on advertising and social media and you're working your butt off to make your place special. And your brand is growing...but do you know how...

How do you take an idea from concept to completion - or in CPG terms, from plate to package? The Consumer Packaged Goods game has huge potential for those in the hospitality industry, but you can't succeed with just a great recipe - you need...

You are going to need money to grow your hospitality group so it's crucial that you know how it's done. Join David Helbraun and Andrew Fine for a deep dive into the capital raising process for hospitality groups. We'll discuss how best to structure equity...

Owning your real estate has always been the secret sauce when you're running a restaurant. Want to make improvements to the space? Go for it. Don't want to answer to a landlord? Who does! And worst case scenario, if your restaurant has to close, you...

For many kinds of hospitality businesses, franchising can be a viable path to seriously expanding your brand - especially if you are operating or thinking about opening a QSR concept. Tom Spadea, franchising attorney and Founding Partner of Spadea Lignana, joins David Helbraun in a...

In today's hospitality industry, the possibility of getting sued feels nearly impossible to combat. Even when you try to do everything right, you still feel completely exposed. ADA issues, FLSA snafus, partnership disputes...it can come at you from all sides. There are, however, things you...

As most of you know, a restaurant owner's ability to profit is directly linked to the owner's ability to scale. It's very hard to make good money off of just a single restaurant location. That's why so many talented operators are investing in building out...