Here’s a scenario we’ve seen a lot here at SiteSeer: an entrepreneur starts a business. Maybe it’s a retail business of some kind—a boutique clothing store, an ice cream shop, a bike shop—or maybe it’s a restaurant.
Tips for Creating an Expansion Plan in Today’s Market
Topics: Market Research, Market Data, Capital Planning, Retail Industry, Retail Site Selection, Restaurant Site Selection, Site Selection Analysis
If you’re a restaurant chain or real estate professional representing a chain that is expanding in the United States, you should be using Restaurant Trends. This data provider is one of a kind, offering competitor store-level sales data for over 480 restaurant chains across the United States, which they have tracked since 1984. They track all of the major quick-service, fast casual, and full-service restaurants in every state in the U.S.—that’s more than 184,000 locations.
Topics: Data Partner, Site Selection Software, Restaurant Industry, Data Quality, Restaurant Site Selection
What’s Going on with Natural Organic Grocery Chains?
If you’re at all connected to the grocery business, you’ve probably seen the headlines about natural and organic grocery chains closing their stores:
Topics: Retail Industry, Retail Site Selection, Site Selection Software, Restaurant Site Selection
How to Study Your Competition During Your Site Selection Process
Step #3 in our Site Selection Checklist for making smart site selection decisions is study your competition.
Too often, we see companies do lots of homework on their customers and trade area and launch right into an expansion plan. Understanding your customer is indeed vital to your success as you grow. But there’s another side of the equation that is extremely important: understanding who you’re going up against.
Topics: Market Research, Retail Industry, Retail Site Selection, Site Selection Software, Restaurant Industry, Restaurant Site Selection, Competitive Analysis
How to Get to Know Your Customer Before Choosing a Location
Site selection done right requires many things, but at the top of the list is knowing your customers.
Topics: Demographic Data, Retail Site Selection, Data Quality, Restaurant Site Selection
Five Tips for a Better Restaurant Site Selection Process
Location, location, location. Never has the phrase been truer to a business’s success than in the restaurant business. A fantastic concept in the wrong location will underperform, or worse, fail entirely. It’s important that you be diligent in your site selection. Here are five tips on how to improve your process:
Topics: Site Selection Software, Restaurant Industry, Restaurant Site Selection