Guerrilla Street Food restaurant and food truck for sale
The popular Filipino-American eatery Guerrilla Street Food stuff is for sale. Proprietors Brian Hardesty and Joel Crespo introduced in a press release that they would be promoting the nationally publicized brand—which incorporates restaurant furniture and fixtures, furthermore a foods truck—to pursue other alternatives.
The conclusion to divest arrived in the earlier pair months. “It all occurred rather swiftly,” Crespo says. “It was time for us to go on and go after other things.”
The duo is wanting to market the brand in hopes that the notion will carry on to commence without the need of them. “A lot of people have reached out to us saying they don’t want it to finish, and we don’t want it to conclusion either,” says Crespo. “It’s time for some refreshing expertise to take over.”
Guerilla Avenue Meals began as a food items truck in 2011. It speedily received popularity and was regarded by several to be the best food stuff truck in town. The to start with brick-and-mortar location opened in Tower Grove in 2015. The thought acquired countrywide focus in these kinds of publications as Forbes and Usa Now, as properly as showing on Food Network’s Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives. Hardesty and Crespo expanded the manufacturer immediately, at some point opening five places right before afterwards closing a several at a time. The remaining cafe is located at 43 S. Outdated Orchard in Webster Groves.
“GSF is nonetheless a profitable organization,” states Hardesty, “but likely from 6 operations to 1, including in a pandemic, and not acquiring any Restaurant Revitalization grants took its toll on us.”
Hardesty, who’s also the taking care of associate for 9 Mile Backyard and Frankie Martin’s Garden, the quickly-to-open up sister strategy in Cottleville, states, “It truly is whole pace forward with those people projects”—and perhaps more. Hardesty also does cafe consulting.
Hardesty and Crespo’s tenure will correctly conclude April 30. “We’re hopeful that another person can just take more than without there being a gap in functions,” asys Crespo, “but that will be the past date that we will be functioning out of the Webster Groves place.”
Interested events can get in touch with Hardesty and Crespo by emailing [email protected] or by way of the restaurant’s Facebook and Instagram web pages.