About Us

Private Equity

MainStreet Restaurant Licensing Ltd is a full service Canadian private equity company servicing the food-restaurant-hospitality industry. The company is headed by Ken Gooz, its President and CEO, a business leader who specializes in restaurant licensing, corporate franchise structures and processes and regional and national multi-unit development.

MainStreet offers operational expertise to successful restaurant concepts including joint ventures and acquisitions, helping them enter into lucrative business alliances and partnerships, expand regionally and nationally and roll in ‘even better’ returns on investment. The company allocates all its resources, energies and development & growth capital to the successful positioning, operations and growth of its partnered or acquired projects.

The company strictly adheres to its commitment of providing seamless managerial and strategic expertise to create sustainable and long term value for its esteemed partners. At MainStreet, we comprise a rich pool of business leaders and marketing experts who focus on generating current income and capital appreciation through debt and equity investments. We offer senior secured loans to successful entrepreneurs and emerging business concepts in the restaurant segment targeting those with EBITDA’s of 21%+, generating a considerable free cash flow and having a strong competitive edge in the market.

We invite founders, Chef-preneurs and culinary innovators with entrepreneurial mind-sets and the desire and drive to aim for multi-unit growth and excel in the food-restaurant-hospitality industry to partner with us to continue the development and growth of their brand and company.

At MainStreet, we treat each unique business or concept as it were our own. We lay special emphasis on hands-on approach to each investment opportunity, thus offering customized solutions and playing a relevant role in developing it; sometimes we are the controlling partner and at others the minority. When financing, MainStreet typically takes a majority position with Board representation and the capital is used to purchase the company and/or its Trade-Mark and intellectual property rights from its existing owners. Additionally, we use those monies in the business’s development.

MainStreet is here to support and propel entrepreneurial management – their dreams! Our core philosophy is to liaison with talented people, like you, to increase the financial and market value of their assets and together achieve mutual success.