About Michael Kinney

Michael is a fully licensed Real Estate Broker in New York State, and president and principal broker of Kinney Brokerage. Michael has over fifteen years experience as Real Estate Broker, with special emphasis on the hospitality industry.

Michael's formal education and experience is predominantly in the hospitality industry with over forty years in the food and beverage sector. Ranging from sous chef, chef manager, country club manager, casino food and beverage manager, and culinary arts instructor.

Michael had owned and operated All types of operation's  from  c-store , supermarket food service to fine dinning years, which enables him to offer restaurant owners a variety of consulting services to increase their sales, decrease costs and improve productivity. These services comprise: business plan preparation, budget formulation, promotional marketing strategies, and menu development. He has also delivered lectures at  Syracuse University on business ownership.

As a former Restaurant Owner and Chef, Michael has helped many start ups and turn around.Often helps to fix  the operation  to produce them best price for the  seller.

Michael and the firm frequently offer advice to improve operations and garner the highest price for businesses. His consulting business motto is "we will help fix and/or sell it". Michael‘s background in food service spans a range of market segments, from food carts to fine dining, and C-stores - supermarket fresh food departments.One of our partners has over forty years in Banking and spent most of that running the SBA department . This was a critical missing element for a while and of course helps our success  rate. 

From his many years of practical "hands-on" experience, Michael has seen numerous inexperienced brokers attempt to sell food service operations, but it takes a seasoned professional with deep restaurant experience, coupled with brokerage experience, to make it happen...Michael really understands the world of business and what a small business owner goes through on a daily basis to run their companies. Michael loves to work as a buyer agent giving you the best protection in purchase of a Business .We now have people in place to cover all of New York State with one agent in New York City area. Linked with the powerhouse of selling restaurants we are the restaurant broker for New York