Build a Restaurant  Market Share Leader

Same Store Outperformance is our accelerator for those who want to drive same store incomes way up—whether they have 1 or 100 locations. During the first 90-day Sprint, you will work with Peter LeSar to transform how your team thinks, performs, and competes—optimizing market positioning, honing your value proposition, and embedding approaches designed to lift your income growth rates to continually exceed those of all direct competitors. The following six months is about compounding financial progress supported by live Q&A sessions and 1:1 strategy sessions. This is not a course—it’s a trajectory shift into that virtuous cycle of out-earn > out-invest > out-earn > out-invest that steadily builds market share leaders.

Systems to Scale is DineRock’s 90-day intensive built for restaurant operators ready to move from optimized unit performance to unit scale. Working with Peter LeSar and specialized experts, you’ll design and budget the systems that drive operational leverage—AI-integration, automation, process optimization, technology integration, management & governance systems, and labor productivity. Over 12 focused weeks, you’ll identify bottlenecks, map efficiencies across every function, and architect a scalable infrastructure that supports multi-unit growth. Each sprint blends strategic planning with implementation tools, cost modeling, and expert reviews to ensure every system installed produces measurable returns. By the end, your restaurant company runs leaner, faster, and smarter—with the structure, visibility, and capacity to expand. This is where systems replace strain and your business is primed to multiply.

Raise Capital to Fund Unit Lift-off is DineRock’s 60-day accelerator for restaurant operators ready to raise capital to build new locations. Working directly with Peter LeSar and our group's investment bankers, you’ll build the financial, strategic, and narrative foundations to attract the right investors on terms that make sense for the business. Over 8 focused weeks, we will support you to model your economics, forecast returns, design rollout strategies, and prepare institutional-grade materials that position your company as an institution-ready, investable growth platform. By the end, your business will not only be ready to raise capital but will also have the tools to capital raise on its own. DineRock will then consider investing (though both parties might want it to invest at earlier stages) and/or in working with its investment banking parent company Agility Capital to structure and raise smart capital on your behalf.

Pre-Series A Capital Access: If a restaurant brand of yours is in start-up mode or has up to $10M in revenue, we are a prospective investor if you are developing in an emergent category that currently has no leader.  We mirror our investment with continuing long-term strategic support. We believe that: 1) There are emerging categories that offer multi-billion-dollar opportunities and that have no visible leader as of date; and 2) The first brand to accelerate to a Series A Round in each category will become its long-term market share leader with all of the financial benefits that come from such positioning.  Our job as your investor would be to help accelerate your brand through a Series A Round so that you can jump and stay ahead of your competitors. Please note that we only invest in brands that first join our accelerator program—building a relationship through first cooperating to lift your outcomes lays the best foundation for a great partnership.