Quick Service Restaurant Feasibility Study in the Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA Metro Area

What SBA's own loan files show about limited-service restaurant lending in the Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA Metro Area, and what a feasibility study for a project there has to test.

Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater: quick-service restaurant lending

Within Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, across FY2017 to FY2026, SBA's data list 27 quick-service restaurant loans, worth $13.8 million in gross approvals. Within Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, quick-service restaurant lending sits 3 of 39 among the asset classes, and Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater is placed at 125 of 779 among metro and micro areas by quick-service restaurant loan count. Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater's location quotient is 1.27x, above the national share. Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater's median loan size comes to $307,000. The inner half of Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater loans extends from $180,500 to $446,350, and the median is 0.99x the class median nationally. Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater sits close to the national class on size, with a median of $307,000 at 0.99x, and a middle half from $180,500 to $446,350, a tight band. With a 1.27x location quotient, quick-service dining stands third locally (3 of 39), and 18.5% of loans are to franchised units. Thurston County holds all 27 loans.

Loan Analytics withholds the split of these loans between its two SBA programs. Franchise-affiliated units account for 18.5% of the Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater loan count. In Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, no holder reaches five loans. Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater therefore identifies no lender. Every one of the 27 loans sits in Thurston County, WA.

Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater: years, floors and limits

Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater has no year-by-year figures on this page. The Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater cancellation rate: not published, below 30 loans. A charge-off rate for Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater: suppressed, under 30 loans. Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater's minimum is ours, not SBA's. Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater has a short FY2017 to FY2021 group. Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater sits on the 2023 July list. Each loan reaches Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater through its county. Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater leaves out unmatched loans.

Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater: what to test

Olympia plans should say whether the project is branded, since 18.5% of loans are franchised and a brand brings fees and build-out requirements. Test the traffic past the site, the format, and the sales a unit needs to clear a loan near $307,000, with a slow opening period shown. No year-by-year table is printed for this cell, so the sponsor must supply its own evidence of the market. The appraisal will weigh operating income. Because a tight middle half of loans leaves little room for an oversized plan, a request well outside $180,500 to $446,350 should explain itself: whether the extra capital buys land, a larger building or a second drive-through lane, and what sales that extra spending is expected to earn in Thurston County.

SBA limited-service restaurant loans in the Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA Metro Area

Loans approved, FY2017 to FY202627
Gross dollars approved$13.8 million
Median loan$307,000
Middle half of loans, from$180,500
Middle half of loans, to$446,350
SBA 7(a) loanswithheld
SBA 504 loanswithheld
Franchise share of loans18.5%
Rank among metro and micro areas for limited-service restaurant loans125 of 779
Rank of limited-service restaurant among the classes in this area3 of 39
Location quotient (share of loans against the national share)1.27x
Median loan against the national median for the class0.99x

Cancellation and charge-off

Cancelled after approval, FY2017 to FY2024 approvals (a floor)not reported: fewer than 30 loans in the cohort
Charged off to date, FY2017 to FY2021 disbursed loans (a floor)not reported: fewer than 30 loans in the cohort

Both rates are floors. SBA withholds the status of open loans, so a loan counts as charged off only once SBA reports it; a rate needs at least 30 loans in its cohort and is otherwise not reported.

Approvals by fiscal year are withheld for this area, so that no year of fewer than 5 loans can be derived.

Where the loans are, by county

CountyLoans
Thurston County, WA27

Counties with 5 or more loans; smaller ones are not listed.

Metro is the CBSA (metropolitan or micropolitan statistical area) of the loan's project county, July 2023 delineation (OMB Bulletin 23-01). The county is matched by name (manifests/ld2/county-cbsa-map.csv); a loan whose county cannot be placed in a 2023 CBSA is left out of every metro.

A value marked withheld rests on fewer than 5 loans, or is withheld so that such a figure cannot be derived from other published figures.

Source: U.S. Small Business Administration, 7(a) and 504 loan-level FOIA files (data.sba.gov), as of 2026-09-30; areas from the U.S. Census Bureau CBSA delineation, July 2023 (OMB Bulletin 23-01); Loan Analytics metro cell MA-36500-C35.

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