Hospitality Partnership Network
Grow your restaurant.
Find your people.
Your restaurant's partner in the right seat — where independent owners meet the operators, investors, and advisors who take a beloved concept to its next chapter.
Stay in control. Choose who gets in.
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List your concept with the partnership types you'd consider.
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Receive vetted pitches — partner identity stays hidden.
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Approve the right one. We make a warm intro by email.
Pitch the concepts that fit you.
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Browse listings filtered by location, revenue, and type.
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Send a structured pitch tailored to one restaurant.
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Get introduced to owners who say yes.
For owners
Owners — get pointed in the right direction.
Three quick paths for restaurant owners — take a 2-minute quiz to find your partnership type, run a readiness check, or see how your business stacks up. No account required to explore.
For restaurant owners
Fit Finder
Answer 4 questions and we'll recommend the partnership types that match your situation.
Start the Fit FinderFor restaurant owners
Are you ready for a partner?
A 10-item readiness check covering books, roles, and lease — find the gaps before partners do.
Run the readiness checkFor partners & investors
Partners — what kind of partner are you?
For investors, operators, advisors, and developers: pick your lane and learn how restaurant owners evaluate you before they reply.
Self-assess as a partnerFor restaurant owners
Three ways Wingman works for owners.
One platform, three distinct rooms — find the partner who fits, the people who get it, and the path to get marketplace-ready.
The Marketplace
Find your partner.
A curated, private marketplace where growth-ready independent owners connect with investors, operators, franchise developers, and fractional executives. Every listing is personally reviewed. Every introduction is owner-approved.
The Community
Find your people.
A private, owners-only space — separate from the marketplace — where independent operators share honestly without competitive tension. Quick tips, real wins, and deeper conversations on margins, staffing, and growth.
Wingman Ready
Find your path.
A structured growth track for owners who aren't marketplace-ready yet — and want to get there. Peer mentorship, a readiness scorecard, and practical resources on financials, systems, and brand story.
For partners & investors
Three ways Wingman works for partners.
Direct access to growth-ready independent restaurants — without brokers, cold outreach, or six-figure finder's fees.
Curated deal flow
See vetted concepts.
Every listing is personally reviewed before going live. Filter by location, revenue, partnership type, and growth stage — skip the noise of generic listing sites and broker blasts.
Warm introductions
Pitch with context.
Send a structured pitch tailored to one restaurant. If the owner says yes, we make the introduction by email — no cold DMs, no gatekeepers, no awkward first contact.
Pick your lane
Partner your way.
Equity, debt, sweat, advisory, fractional CXO, franchise development, or operational takeover — owners select the partnership types they're open to, so every pitch you send fits the opening.
We're building this with our first 50 owners.
Wingman just opened its doors. Right now we're hand-selecting growth-ready independent restaurants — the kind of operators every great partner wants to meet. The marketplace is intentionally small today, and that's the point.
The owners and partners who join now help shape what this becomes.
Founding Member status
Permanent badge on your profile. Locked-in pricing forever. Direct line to the team that's building this.
A seat at the table
Vote on what we ship next. Early access to every new partnership type, tool, and service we add.
Maximum visibility
Fewer listings means yours gets seen. Early owners get featured placement as we grow the partner network.
The bigger picture
Partnership matchmaking first. A home for restaurant owners next.
Our mission starts and stays with one thing: matching independent hospitality operators with the right business partner — operators, investors, fractional CXOs, franchise developers, and more. From there, Wingman is being built into the hub independent restaurant owners deserve: vetted service providers, owner-to-owner community, and the tools that help great concepts grow. Founding members help us decide what comes next.
Nine ways to partner
Every partnership has its own seat at the table.
From a fractional CFO to a franchise developer, owners choose exactly the partnership types they want — and only those pitches come through.
Growth partner
Franchise development
Equity partner
Silent / investor partner
Operator partnership
Marketing partner
Owner-to-owner partnership
Strategic advisor
Fractional CFO / C-suite
Featured listing
The Birdhouse, Fancy Chicken & Fine Cocktails
Full service, Fried Chicken, Fine Cocktails & Southern Hospitality · New Braunfels, TX
The Birdhouse isn't looking for a partner because things are hard — it's looking because things are working. Sales beat the prior month consistently. The demand has outgrown the current location. The goal is to take this from a beloved single location to a national brand. The foundation is set. The next chapter needs the right person in it.
From the founder