Sound Legal Advice on the Purchase of A Café

If you are looking to buy a café or sandwich shop and you need a solicitor give us a call now for a no obligations free initial consultation.

How Can We Help?

We can help you negotiate the terms of the café purchase at the outset. This is important as often critical terms or reductions in rent/the sale price are much easier to agree at this stage before they are ‘agreed in principle’.

If you are buying a café chances are you will probably lease the property rather than buy the freehold. If so we will guide you through your lease and make sure it fits your needs. For example, often the lease initially proposed will not allow the tenant to use the property for all the purposes his café will need. We will resolve difficulties like this with you and the landlord.

Apart from the lease the main document to check will be the contract that sells the café business to you. We will take you through this and focus especially on practical points that are always particularly relevant to café sales.

There are many additional issues that we will consider with you when buying your café such as:

- Will you need a Sit Out licence (ie to allow customers to sit outside)?

- Will you need a licence to sell alcohol?

- Are disabled facilities needed?

- Is the kitchen ventilation adequate for building regulations?

In addition, if you are setting up a business we can painlessly sort out the process for you which can otherwise be nightmarish for the uninitiated.