Modern Licensed Burger Bar | Popular and growing business
We have for sale a popular and modern gourmet burger takeaway restaurant in an Inner North suburb. The business has strong and recognisable branding and is fully independent therefore does …
One of Canberra’s Best Café’s | High Turnover, Under Full Management
For sale is an attractive and well-established café in a bustling suburb on the North-side of Canberra. The location is a popular and busy destination that enjoys a high volume …
Gourmet Burgers & Beer | Under Full Management
For sale is a fully licensed 137 seat Restaurant serving gourmet burgers and craft beer in one of Canberra’s top foodie destinations. Established in 2016 the business has shown strong …
Busy Shopping Centre Kiosk Cafe | High Turnover
For sale is an attractive and well-established kiosk café in a bustling Canberra shopping Centre on the South Side. With a high-quality fit-out, and a fantastic menu the business enjoys …
Established fully licensed Café | Highly Desirable location
For sale is an attractive and well-established café & Bar in a bustling and developing suburb on the North-side of Canberra. The business has been operating since 2017 and enjoys …
Easy to run, profitable cafe | Highly desirable South Side location
For sale is an elegant café in a highly popular and well heeled suburb of Canberra. The shop is a popular destination and despite the high level of competition it …
High Volume 5 day café | Northside
For sale is a high volume, 5 day café on the Northside of Canberra. The business enjoys a captured market of regular daily trade and turns over between $18 and …
One of Canberra’s Best Cafes
For sale is a well-established Café in an affluent South Side suburb of Canberra. The business has been with the same owners for over 10 years and a café has …
Well priced, profitable café in South Canberra | New commercial development
For sale is a gourmet café situated in the Canberra suburb of Kambah inside a relatively new commercial development. Surrounded by anchor tenants such as Club Lime, Hungry Jacks, IGA …
Affordable Café in South Canberra
For sale is a small gourmet café situated in the leafy Canberra suburb of Torrens. The shop seats approximately 16 people inside and 30 people outside. Specialising in gourmet coffee …
Affordable Canberra Café | 6 years with current owner
For sale is a licensed 5 day café set in the bustling industrial area of Fyshwick. The business is incredibly well setup with a full commercial kitchen, 2 decks and …
One of Canberra’s busiest Cafes
For sale is one of Canberra’s busiest and most popular café’s selling 80kg’s of coffee per week. When you see the trading figures you will be amazed that this …
My name is Robert Illsley, I am a licensed business broker in Canberra that specialises in the sale of Cafes
I am originally from Somerset in the South West of England and in 2000 I married a Wagga girl and moved to Australia in 2007. In 2014 I opened my own Café which I poured my heart and soul into and was able to establish it as one of the towns most prestigious and popular locations for coffee and food. When we decided to sell nearly 4 years later I realised how difficult it was to sell a business, although I felt that I was capable of handling the sale myself, I needed help. I wasn’t sure exactly how to evaluate my business, how to properly and discreetly market it and I found the process quite daunting.
After a number of bad experiences with agents I discovered GSE Business Consultants and it was at this point that I realised how valuable a good business broker can be, the right advice and preparation allowed me to properly prepare my business for market. After using the services of GSE I quickly found a potential buyer and found that I was in a competitive situation with another Café. Because of the way I was able to present my business the buyer felt more comfortable buying my business even though my competition had a bigger business with higher turnover.
I think that at this point a lightbulb went on in my head and I made the decision that I wanted to become a business broker myself. I approached the owner of GSE and thankfully he was looking to expand his business and when I sold Jardine’s I qualified as a business broker in NSW and the ACT and set up my own business operating as an affiliate of GSE Business consultants.
Put simply a good business broker can be the difference between selling your business and having it languish on the market, many brokers are happy to list a business without doing the necessary preparation and do not always increase your chance of selling in a timely manner. In my role as a business broker I intend to bring the same level of service, quality advice and ethical standard as when I owned my Café.
The difference between working with us at GSE compared with other brokers is clear; we only work with cafes, all the brokers at GSE have owned, operated and sold food businesses of our own and we understand the unique challenges that this industry faces. My regional knowledge as well as my background in hospitality means that I can help you to add significant value to your business during the sale process.
If you are considering an exit strategy then please get in touch with me as soon as possible on 0415 243750.
