Episode 91: Celeste Deal with ARF Financial

Getting "money, money, money" to finance their businesses is always a hot topic of interest for restaurant owners and operators. Meet Celeste Deal, chief sales officer with ARF Financial. She has 24 years of funding experience and has provided more than $120 million in 12,000 different transactions with small-business operators. 

Here, Celeste shares her knowledge to help us secure funding, manage debt, achieve a return on investment, and prepare for succession planning. In this interview, we can learn the essential steps of restaurant debt consolidation, expansion, and improvement. 

Celeste illustrates how one restaurant's plan to expand into a space next door was consummated with two loans. The first financed design, construction, equipment, and decor. The latter financed small wares, inventory, and working capital as needed. 

She also explains how food truck operators can obtain funding to move to brick-and-mortar locations and how established restaurants can finance trucks for catering. 

Learn from an expert on successful start-up, expansion, and franchise financing in this "must-listen" episode.