Restaurant Realty Company Background:

Restaurant Realty Company is a Northern California Restaurant Brokerage which was started in 1996 by Steven D. Zimmerman who is the Owner, Broker and President of the Company. The company specializes in sales, acquisitions and leasing of restaurants, bars and clubs. The company does appraisal valuations on the latter mentioned businesses and does expert witness work for a number of legal firms. The company also works with financial institutions, hospitality industry consultants and the United States Federal Bankruptcy Court on various related projects. Restaurant Realty Company has grown to be the largest Restaurant Business Brokerage, listing and selling more restaurant related businesses than any other brokerage office in the state over the last decade.


Restaurant Realty Company Staff:

Steven D. Zimmerman, CBB, CBI
President, Owner and Broker
Steve@RestaurantRealty.com

Steven has personally sold over 750 restaurant, bar/or club businesses since 1996 and completed over 2,000 valuations. (see the section titled Restaurants Sold). His real estate experience also includes sales, acquisitions, management, and ownership of numerous properties throughout California including restaurants, hotels, apartment buildings and single family homes.

Prior to starting Restaurant Realty Steven had over 20 years of restaurant experience and was President and Chief Executive Officer of Zim's Restaurants, which was one of the largest privately owned restaurant chains in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Steven is a graduate of the University of San Francisco's School of Business Administration and Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration. He holds a California State Real Estate Brokers License (Lic. ID #01310250), State of California College Teaching Certificate, and he has earned the industry's top designations for advanced education which include: the Certified Business Broker (CBB) designation awarded by the California Association of Business Brokers and the Certified Business Intermediary (CBI) designation awarded by the International Business Brokers Association.

Steven has taught management courses at San Francisco City College Hotel and Restaurant School and the former School for Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Management at Golden Gate University. Steven has been a regular guest lecturer at the California Culinary Academy (CCA) in San Francisco for several years. He is a member of the Golden Gate Restaurant Association, Cornell University's Hotel Society, Cornell University's Real Estate Council, California Association of Business Brokers (CABB), and the International Business Brokers Association (IBBA).

As a result of Steven's many years of experience and expertise, he has written his first book entitled Restaurant Dealmaker - An Insider's Trade Secrets for Buying a Restaurant, Bar or Club which will be available for purchase in the near future.
 

Judy Zimmerman, Director of Marketing:
Judy@RestaurantRealty.com

Judy has been with Restaurant Realty Company since 1999.  Her responsibilities include overseeing marketing and advertising activities, such as phone book ads, flyer creation and distribution, handling special targeted marketing campaigns, and coordinating other special marketing projects and campaigns.

Prior to joining Restaurant Realty Company Judy owned her own company, Bay Marketing, which was a manufacturers representative for various women's sportswear lines and she worked at Macy's of California as a Sales Manager and Buyer.  Judy attended Cornell University for two years prior to moving to California where she graduated from the University of San Francisco in Business Administration. Judy holds a California State Real Estate License (Lic. ID #01317025).

Jacob Zimmerman, Director of Strategic Development
Jacob@RestaurantRealty.com

Jacob has been working with Restaurant Realty Company since 1998 when he implemented the company's Internet and information technology strategy. Jacob is now involved in all company related strategy and is responsible for financial planning, valuation analysis, and general management of technology including web development, intranet systems, customer relationship management, marketing, and asset management of systems.  

Jacob is a graduate of Cornell University, School of Hotel Administration where he received a Bachelor of Science in Management with a concentration in Real Estate Development. Jacob is also the Founder of Restaurants For Sale Online which is the leading national website for restaurants for sale. Jacob previously worked for HVS where he has conducted commercial real estate valuations, market studies, expert-testimony preparation and feasibility reports with close to $2 billion of hospitality real estate assets. 

Bruce Osterlye, Listing Specialist
Bruce@RestaurantRealty.com

Bruce's responsibilities include contacting potential restaurant, bar and nightclub sellers and setting up appointments with them to discuss the services our company provides to obtain listings for the sale of their business. Bruce also works with buyers and sellers in putting together the transaction. Bruce also works closely with Steve Zimmerman to determine the valuation of the business.

Prior to joining Restaurant Realty, Bruce, a native of San Francisco, attended the San Francisco City College Hotel and Restaurant Program, worked in a number of Bay Area French restaurants, and has hotel and restaurant experience working in Switzerland. This was followed by twelve years at Kenwood Vineyards and Winery as Warehouse and Bottling Line Manager, Restaurant Wine Sales and Events Catering. Since 1989, Bruce has been a successful restaurant owner and operator. Bruce holds a California State Real Estate License (Lic. ID #01840610).

Nancy Barton, Buyer Coordinator
Nancy@RestaurantRealty.com

Nancy's responsibilities include:  1) screening buyers which includes discussing with prospective buyers their backgrounds to determine whether they are qualified to have access to any of our listings, 2)  setting up showing appointment between buyers and sellers, and 3) being involved with various administrative functions of the office.

Prior to joining Restaurant Realty Company Nancy has been a real estate salesperson for Lake Tahoe Distinctive Properties and Chase International at Incline Village, Nevada and at Frank Howard Allen in San Rafael. Prior to this she was Marketing Manager at Kaiser Permanente, a Senior Business Analyst at American Express and a Sergeant, F-15 Fighter Crew Chief in the U.S. Air Force. She holds an Associate of Arts degree, a Bachelors of Science degree in Business Administration, a Masters of Business Administration degree and Nevada and California State Real Estate Licenses (Lic. ID# 01766612).


Thomas Barton, Internet Marketing Coordinator

Thomas's responsibilities include managing the in-house marketing manager which facilitates the management of Restaurant Realty's listings on the leading business for sale, restaurant for sale and commercial real estate websites. All new listing information flows through Thomas and is updated on these sites.
 

Sally Packman, Mailing Coordinator:

Sally has been with Restaurant Realty Company since 2000.  She packages tens of thousands of mailings yearly (each mailing includes our current listing sheets, Restaurant Rap and brochure on the services we provide) which are sent to all restaurant, bar and club owners in the 8 primary bay area counties we service. Sally also handles our special targeted mailing campaigns which are special mailings sent to specialized businesses such as brewpubs, bars & clubs, and catering companies, etc.

Prior to joining Restaurant Realty Company Sally earned a degree in education from San Francisco State University and taught school and then managed a gift shop for several years.

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