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Two platforms.
One balance sheet.
Birchmont Group operates franchise restaurants and owns commercial real estate. The two platforms are run by the same people, underwritten to the same standard, and held for the long term.
Franchise Restaurant Operations
Acquisition, development, and day-to-day operation of franchised restaurant locations under established national and regional brands. We are franchisee-operators: we hold the licence, hire the teams, own the P&L, and answer to the franchisor for standards in every unit we run.
- Area development, new builds, conversions, and unit acquisitions
- General manager recruiting, training, and retention
- Weekly labour, food cost, and throughput reporting per location
- Franchisor-grade brand standards and compliance
Real Estate
Acquisition, development, leasing, and long-term ownership of commercial property across Alberta and adjacent Western Canadian markets — beginning with the sites our own restaurants occupy and extending to third-party retail, pad, and mixed-use assets.
- Freestanding retail, pad sites, strip and mixed-use assets
- Land assembly, entitlement, and ground-up development
- Leasing, tenant sourcing, and hands-on asset management
- Sale-leasebacks, joint ventures, and vendor-take-back structures
Operator and landlord, under one roof.
Running both platforms is not diversification for its own sake. Each one answers a risk the other carries.
We know what a site has to do.
Because we run the concepts ourselves, we can price a location against real unit economics instead of a broker’s assumption — and commit to a site without first having to find a tenant.
The landlord risk goes away.
Occupancy is the largest fixed cost in a restaurant P&L and the one an operator usually cannot control. Owning the building removes renewal risk, relocation risk, and rent escalation from the equation.