About Ken
Ken Mucha is an accomplished business executive with more than 30 years of experience in the restaurant/hospitality industry. Ken is a licensed real estate broker specializing in the buying & selling of restaurants and related businesses, and an accomplished lease/purchase negotiator. He specializes in business and real estate valuations, lease negotiations, and preparing a business to obtain maximum value in purchasing, financing, or sales transactions.
He is adept in assisting individuals and companies with finding locations, assisting clients with lease or purchase negotiations with land owners/landlords, and buying or selling restaurants. His extensive background in construction (ground up and remodeling) has been a useful tool to his clients as well.
He is also adept in revitalizing companies' organizational structures, support functions, and cost control strategies to achieve maximum profits. Mucha has exhibited a broad spectrum of skills in directing the full range of restaurant operations to capture and enhance overall quality, productivity, and bottom-line performance.
In recent years Ken served as a court-appointed receiver for a famous local bar and restaurant in Orange County, revolving around a dispute between ownership over the distribution of profits. Taking full charge of the operation and its management, he redefined the true profitability of the facility by putting in place proper cost controls and accounting procedures. He brokered a sales transaction for the business and the real estate that brought the litigation to a close while getting ownership maximum value.
Earlier in 2017, Ken completed the sales transaction for a famous seafood concept in Pismo Beach, California called Cracked Crab. Working through some complicated circumstances (including the City and a neighboring property owner), he got the owner over 3.7 million dollars in the transaction.
Ken negotiated a lease and completed the design and build-out for the new Prego location at the District in Tustin, California — handling design, permitting, and construction, completing the restaurant in a 4-month period.
More recently Ken has worked with the Bankruptcy Trustee on TAPS Restaurant and its affiliates on evaluating the current operations to decide feasibility to remain in operation or should be sold to satisfy debt to creditors. Ken worked on behalf of the Trustee assigned to the Bankruptcy with the previous owners, owners attorneys, landlords representation, etc.
Ken is currently working as an advisor to the owners of RMI Industries (very successful commercial refrigeration manufacturing company) located in Cerritos, CA on the sale of the business. He serves as the go-between the ownership, the broker (Roth Capital Partners) and the buyer.
In prior years Ken served, at the request of the Creditors and Senior Lender, as interim CEO for Spectrum Restaurant Group, Inc. Along with the attorneys, he prepared and got a plan approved by the court to keep the restaurants in full operation in order to achieve maximum value in the sale of the assets to get the senior lender and creditors paid.