GGB Free screen · before any signature
Can this site ever be the venue you're imagining?
A signed lease converts every unknown into your cost. Nine questions — rent load, term, use approval, extraction, utilities, drainage, access, history — answered honestly, with the reason behind every read, while walking away is still free.
Only the answers you give, on this device — nothing is stored or sent unless you choose to send it. A working read, not due diligence, and never legal, engineering or licensing advice.
Site & lease questions, answered straight
- What should I check before signing a restaurant lease?
- Nine things decide most of it: rent against realistic revenue (the published working band), the certain lease term, the rent-free fit-out period, written F&B use approval, a viable kitchen-extraction route, utility capacity, drainage and grease provision, real delivery access, and what the unit was before. Every one of them is cheaper to answer before signature than after — this screen walks all nine.
- Can this screen replace legal or engineering due diligence?
- No — deliberately and explicitly not. It is a pre-signature working read that tells you which questions matter and who owns the answers. The lease needs a lawyer; capacities need licensed engineers; approvals come from the authorities and the landlord in writing. The screen exists so you commission that diligence with open eyes, not instead of it.
- Why does an ex-restaurant unit screen better than a new shell?
- Because conversion cost hides in services: an ex-restaurant unit usually carries extraction, gas, drainage and kitchen-grade power in some form — the diligence question becomes their condition and approvals. A shell means the full MEP and kitchen scope is yours, honestly priced but at the largest version of the budget. Neither is wrong; they are different projects.
- What kills restaurant sites most often?
- Two things above all: rent that no realistic revenue model carries — rent is the one cost you cannot fix after signing — and the absence of a viable kitchen-extraction route, which some units simply can never have. Both are visible before signature, which is exactly why this screen asks about them first.