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 FY2026 | 27 |
|---|---|
| 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) loans | withheld |
| SBA 504 loans | withheld |
| Franchise share of loans | 18.5% |
| Rank among metro and micro areas for limited-service restaurant loans | 125 of 779 |
| Rank of limited-service restaurant among the classes in this area | 3 of 39 |
| Location quotient (share of loans against the national share) | 1.27x |
| Median loan against the national median for the class | 0.99x |
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
| County | Loans |
|---|---|
| Thurston County, WA | 27 |
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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