The Home for Commercial
Kitchen Service Businesses
Keep running the business you built, your way, with the best operators in the country behind you. The support and capital to grow faster or lock in what you've made, and take chips off the table when the time is right.
You Built It Alone. You Don't Have to Grow It Alone.
You've carried the payroll, the 2am callbacks, the licensing, the hiring, all of it, for years. Whether you're pushing to grow faster or starting to think about what comes next, you shouldn't have to carry all of it alone.
Rise brings together the best commercial kitchen operators in the country under one platform, so nobody has to go it alone. Your name stays. Your crew stays. You get the back office, the capital, and partners who've built what you're building, whether that means scaling up or eventually stepping back on your own terms.
See How We PartnerFrom Alone to Backed
Carrying every load yourself
→A real back office and partners behind you
Wondering what happens to your name
→Your brand and crew stay, always
No one in your market who gets it
→A room of operators who do
Grow Faster, or Lock In What You Built
Some partners want to scale, more trucks, new markets, services they could never staff alone. Others want to protect what they built and take some risk off the table. Rise is built for both.
Cash at close, a stake in what we're building together, or a mix, structured around your goals, not a fund's template. You keep running the business either way.
Why Operators Choose Rise
Run your own shop with a growing platform behind you.
Your Brand Stays Yours
Your company name. Your trucks. Your reputation. We never rebrand. Your identity is what makes you valuable.
Real Back-Office Support
Recruiting, payroll, accounting, marketing, route optimization. We handle the stuff that pulls you away from the field.
A Deal Built Around You
Cash at close, a stake in what we're building, or both. Structured around your goals, whether that's growth, liquidity, or a clean path out.
How Rise Is Different
Not every buyer is the same.
Rise | Traditional PE | Strategic Buyer | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Your Brand | Stays yours. Always. Your name, your trucks, your reputation. | Often rebranded under a portfolio company | Absorbed into the buyer's brand and identity |
| Who Runs It | You do. Full operational autonomy. | New management team or operating partners installed | Integrated into buyer's corporate operations |
| Your Team | Stays intact. Your crew, your culture. | Restructured and optimized for cost efficiency | Redundant roles eliminated |
| Time Horizon | Long-term. We're building, not flipping. | 3-5 year hold, then exit to the next buyer | Permanent, but your identity is gone |
| Deal Structure | Flexible. Cash at close + equity tailored to your goals | Standardized fund terms, take it or leave it | Rigid corporate acquisition terms |
| Upside After Close | Equity in the whole platform. Grows as we grow. | Little to none. You're out after the check clears. | None. Fully cashed out at close. |
Services We Partner With
If you service commercial kitchens, we want to talk.
And other commercial kitchen trades. If it keeps kitchens running, we're interested.
Who We Partner With
We're looking for established operators who take pride in their work and want a partner, not a boss.
- Commercial kitchen services including hood cleaning, grease management, fire protection, equipment repair, and related trades
- Strong local reputation and customer relationships