Peruvian rotisserie restaurant
Three facts.
- 01
- A Peruvian rotisserie restaurant doing $816,600 of revenue, asking $300,000.Dine-in, takeout and one delivery app from a leased plaza unit. The seller states $169,411 of SDE - earnings before the owner is paid - as listed and unverified, on a revenue the listing itself calls a projection.
- 02
- Opened in July 2024 with a team of seven, every one of them a 1099 contractor, and an owner the listing calls 'not essential'.Eighteen months of trading. No manager is named and no owner hours are given. The profit is SDE, which assumes the owner works unpaid - so either the owner works, or someone unnamed runs the floor.
- 03
- The only measured cost is the rent, at 5% of revenue.Every other line in the cost build is the trade's typical, not this kitchen's - which is why our earnings are a band, not a point, and why the tax returns come first.
Two ways to own it.
The manager seat is one general manager at 1.05 of a full-time equivalent, $76,818 on a $62,000 base, sized to a 42-hour week the listing never describes. If a manager is already on the payroll the deduction is conservative; if the owner also cooks, add a kitchen lead.
Ranges are our reconstruction of the numbers, on our normalized view of earnings, not the seller's figure. Each band starts at its conservative end.
Two of 9 findings.
+7 more in the full file
Cheaper than 64% of 25 similar businesses.
1.8x the seller's SDE; the peer median is 2.0x. Based on asking prices, not completed sales.
Each one written out, with what would soften or close it before an offer.
28 questions answered in plain words, from “What does the business actually do?” to “What to do next”.
Not identified with confidence; the original listing is in the member file. Why no names?
Written from the conditions and the open checks, in the order we would ask them.
30 things no document we found decides, each with the document that would.
Five-year projections per basis, the downside case, debt cover year by year, and the scenario workbook; the trail: 44 checks for this trade, each with its evidence and status.
The name, the four conditions, the questions for the broker.
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1,000 listings screened · 7 researched to the end · 5 published · Edition No. 8, 10 October 2026. We have no stake in whether this deal closes.