J. Back & Associates Restaurant Realty

What's Hot Right Now?

Dinnerhouse with very high net income

Region: East Bay
Location: East Bay
Price: $395,000
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Breakfast Lunch Cafe Established 22 years Profitable. Price Reduction.

Region: South Bay
Location: San Jose
Price: 99,000
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Menlo Park Gourmet Deli & Catering Est 1970

Region: Peninsula
Location: Menlo Park
Price: 395,000
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Stockton Landmark Profitable Restaurant and Bar established 1976 with good lease. This landmark restaurant and bar has been a fixture in Stockton since 1976. Well appointed with a full kitchen and bar with a great new outside enclosed patio. The size is approximately 3,400 SF + 800 outside dining.

Region: Other
Location: Stockton
Price: 349,000
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How to Find Profitable Restaurant Realty Opportunities

Now Is A Good Time to find great opportunities in restaurant realty. Difficult business times frequently create special restaurant real estate opportunities. Prime properties become available. Prices are attractive, and owners generally carry-back financing.

If you are planning to expand your operation, you should talk now with the company that knows where the opportunities are developing and how best to capitalize on them.

Full Service. Once we discuss your plans, we can provide a wide range of services:

Restaurant realty opportunity sales
Site selection
Business evaluation
Exclusive tenant representation

Work With A Restaurant Professional. Jeff Back specializes exclusively in restaurant realty. As the past President of Charley Brown's Restaurants, he understands your needs and can match them with the opportunities in the Bay Area and Northern California.

Than means you'll benefit from the personalized services of a restaurant/realtor who speaks you language, knows your business, and is skilled at working with management and landlords in this competitive field.

Performance You Can Count On. Jeff has consummated over 300 transactions in the past 23 years. Jeff has delivered these results.

Back In The Saddle Again

"Restaurants are like thoroughbred racehorses," says Jeff Back. "owning one is glamorous, but finding a winner is hard as hell." Just how hard? Back, a man who left the business after twenty years - only to return three months later - says restaurants have the highest mortality rate of any new business: Approximately nine out of ten go belly up in the first two years. So why is a smart businessman like Back back in the restaurant business? He's not - he's in the restaurant real estate business.

Three and a half years ago Back, thirty-nine, resigned his job as president of Charley Brown's Restaurants. "Personally," he says, "I was tired of the corporate life and lifestyle." So he found a way to make money off fellow restaurateurs. His basic premise was this: Restaurants come and go, but the land they stand on remains. As he explains it: "I had thought about opening my own restaurant. But having worked with brokers for a number of years, I realized that there was a real need for somebody who could talk the language of the restaurateur as well as deal in a real estate environment."

Today that realization is J. Back & Associates Restaurant Real Estate, a three-year-old Danville company that exclusively handles restaurant real estate in the Bay Area. They have brought Pacific Pasta to San Ramon, Flambeau's to Pleasant Hill, and the Uptown Cafe to Danville. You might just say that Back's business is running like racehorses.

- Richard Barker

- Diablo Magazine

- 1988 Article