Protecting Your Restaurant from Kitchen to Contract

Serving Up Legal Solutions for the Hospitality Industry

RKW’s Retail, Restaurant, and Hospitality practice includes attorneys with industry expertise who collaborate across the firm’s practice areas to provide comprehensive legal services to owners, tenants, developers, franchisors, franchisees, and managers of retailers, restaurants, resorts, and hotels. Handling the full spectrum of matters faced by our clients from transactions to business and employee counseling to litigation – RKW assists restaurateurs manage their risks and seize opportunities in their markets.

Our collection of lawyers who are seasons in all aspects of business law, real estate, and construction law assist clients in the negotiation of commercial agreements including leases, construction contracts, purchases of operating entities and franchises. Importantly, our labor and employment attorneys frequently help our hospitality industry management address issues ranging from benefits and wage/hour disputes to unlawful discrimination.

Recognizing the high entry costs and the high cost of litigation, RKW’s hospitality lawyers closely align themselves with their clients to identify and extinguish issues before they explode and ensure that practical solutions remain at the forefront.