The IBBA Q1 2026 Market Pulse is out. 300 brokers. 203 closed transactions. As Georgia's IBBA-credentialed restaurant broker, Jimmy Carey decodes every number that matters for Atlanta and Savannah sellers: SDE multiples, buyer proximity, the 68% exit planning gap, what exit planning actually involves, time to close, AI and valuations, and what the Boomer liquidity wave means for Georgia restaurant owners right now. Real broker intelligence translated locally. Serving Atlanta,

Your restaurant runs — but only because you never stop running it. Restaurant owner dependency in Atlanta is one of the most expensive conditions a restaurant can have, silently compressing your SDE multiple from 2.9x down to 1.5x before a single offer is made. Atlanta's Premier Restaurant Broker Jimmy Carey breaks down what owner dependency costs in real dollars, how buyers and SBA lenders price it, and the proven JCCRE 4-Step Dependency Reduction Plan for fixing it before y

Every week in Metro Atlanta, restaurant listings expire, go dark, or disappear without ever closing — not because they couldn't sell, but because they were never positioned correctly. Atlanta's Premier Restaurant Broker Jimmy Carey breaks down the 6 deal-killers behind every stalled listing and the 4-step framework that positions your restaurant for a clean, profitable exit in Atlanta and Georgia.