A lot of shop owners lead with their top line. “We do $1.2 million a year.” That’s a fine starting point, but it’s not how buyers think. What they’re buying is cash flow — specifically, something called Seller’s Discretionary Earnings, or SDE.
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What Is Your Auto Repair Shop Actually Worth?
Most shop owners who go through a professional valuation are surprised — sometimes pleasantly, sometimes not. Either way, knowing the number before you need it gives you time to act on it.
The Asset Nobody Talks About: What Florida Business Owners Need to Know About Liquor Licenses
If you’re a Tampa Bay area bar, restaurant, or package store owner thinking about what a sale might look like — or a buyer trying to understand what you’re actually acquiring — the liquor license conversation is worth having early. It shapes everything downstream.
Cash Flow Is an Engineering Problem — And Most Small Business Owners Are Solving It Wrong
By Michael Shea | Transworld Business Advisors of Tampa Bay Most small business owners think about cash flow the wrong way. They treat it like a weather report — something to check, react to, and worry about when it looks bad. What they rarely do is engineer it. But cash flow has moving parts, and […]
How to Use AI to Measure Productivity in Your Restaurant — Front, Back, and In the Kitchen
OpenTable, Resy, and Toast all have analytics that touch on these areas. The AI piece comes in when you start combining data streams — pairing reservation pacing with POS timing with server assignments — to get a picture that no single system gives you alone.