So You Want to Own a Restaurant
Start + Grow Your Business
Interested in starting your own restaurant in the Champaign area but not sure where to start?
Join a panel of successful restauranteurs and listen to their entrepreneurial journey, how they got established, and best tricks in the biz! This presentation will feature live Q&A and networking.
Presented in partnership with the Champaign Center Partnership.
About the Panelists:
Sean Baird is an owner of Watson's Chicken Shack & Rail, a fine-casual chicken shack, bar, & restaurant in downtown Champaign. Sean got his entrepreneurial start co-owning Cracked: the Egg Came First food truck.
Gayle Starks is the owner of Neil St. Blues, known for their Southern- and Cajun-inspired food, live music, and dancing. She comes from an entrepreneurial background and was voted People's Choice at the 2020 Artisan Cup & Fork experience.
Start + Grow Your Business Workshop Series:
- Jun 2, Market Research 101: Evaluate Your Industry and Environment, 12 pm
- Jun 6, Scaling Your Business, 7 pm
- Jun 8, Instagram for Business 201, 10 am
- Jun 16, Q&A with the Brand Hub, 12 pm
- Jun 20, So You Want to Own a Restaurant, 7 pm
- Jun 30, Market Research 101: Identify Your Customers, 12 pm
Starting or growing your business? Champaign.org/launch
Main Library, Robeson Pavilion Room A & B
