Are you considering starting a winery, restaurant, bed and breakfast, catering, wine-based or hospitality business? If so, when forming a business it is important to choose the legal structure that’s right for your business circumstances.
In the earlier posts of this series, we considered the “Sole Proprietorship” and the “Partnership” business entities. Knowing and understanding how each [...]
Category Archives: Hospitality Business
What Wine Or Hospitality Business Are You Creating? Forming A Corporation
What’s Your Plan For Starting A Winery, Wine Or Hospitality Business?
Every business should have a plan. Too often, new business owners fail to commit their business goals and objectives to writing. Whether your dream is to start a winery, open a restaurant, buy a bed and breakfast, or to create your own wine based or hospitality business, you need a plan. A well [...]
What Winemaker Do You Have Your Eye On?
Do you have your eye on a particular winemaker, executive chef or marketing guru for your winery or hospitality based business? Are you looking for ways to attract key talent to your business? If so, your may want to consider an employment agreement as an option for retaining that “must have” person for your [...]
What Wine Or Hospitality Business Are You Creating? Forming A Partnership
Are you a great team player? Can you make a marriage work? Do you recall telling your co-worker, friend or loved one, “let’s sink or swim together” ? If so, perhaps that idea or concept that you and another have been incubating over time is ready to take flight and evolve into a [...]
Wine Law, Wineries and the Yellow Rose of Texas
Last week, I had the very good fortune of traveling to San Antonio Texas to attend Law Seminar International’s Winery and Wine Law Distribution Conference. (You should know right off that I previously resided in Texas for 13 years but have long since moved from the state). While things had very much [...]
What Wine Or Hospitality Business Are You Creating? Forming the Sole Proprietorship
In my recent travels along the Pennsylvania wine trail, I met an entrepreneurial minded young lady who expressed an interest in forming a “wine-tasting business”. We briefly explored her need to create the right business structure. Thus, I thought I would discuss the various business structures for those of you who are considering opening [...]
