Restaurant Feasibility Study in the Tallahassee, FL Metro Area
What SBA's own loan files show about full-service restaurant lending in the Tallahassee, FL Metro Area, and what a feasibility study for a project there has to test.
Full-service restaurant loans in Tallahassee
Tallahassee dining draws on both programs, 19 loans below 7(a) and 7 under 504; the 504 holder table names Florida First Capital Finance Corporation, Inc., with 7 loans worth $5.8 million. The Tallahassee, FL record for full-service restaurants stands at 26 loans and $14.3 million, approved during FY2017 to FY2026. Among Tallahassee classes it ranks 2 of 39; against areas nationwide, Tallahassee, FL ranks 170 of 821. A 1.32x location quotient means the Tallahassee mix tilts toward full-service restaurants beyond what the nationwide mix does. Tallahassee loan size runs high: $336,050 at the median, 1.22x the national median for full-service restaurants.
The middle half of Tallahassee loans runs from $162,500 to $921,750. A project needing much more than $921,750 would sit outside the usual Tallahassee band. The 504 program holds 7 Tallahassee loans, against 19 under 7(a). Loan Analytics withholds the franchise share for Tallahassee full-service restaurants. The Tallahassee median stands at $336,050. $162,500 to $921,750 is the usual spread. Branded or independent: the study must say. Match the program to the project.
Tallahassee: holders, places and years
The SBA 504 holder list names Florida First Capital Finance Corporation, Inc., 7 loans and $5.8 million. SBA 7(a) loans in Tallahassee are held by The Huntington National Bank (5 loans worth $2.0 million), in SBA's records. SBA's Tallahassee table shows who holds each loan. It offers no reading of any approach. Volume prints for FY2019, 0 loans at $0 and FY2024, 5 loans at $3.9 million. The rest are not printed. The counts behind them are small. No gap says that nothing was approved. Years printed above support no trend reading. Lenders compare plans with the Tallahassee record. Project evidence has to be gathered anew.
Testing a full-service restaurant project in Tallahassee
Cancellation and charge-off rates: none for Tallahassee full-service restaurants. The cohort has too few loans. No loss floor can be quoted. Each area is a 2023 federal grouping. Every loan is read through its county. Matching is by county name. A loan with no match stays out. $14.3 million over 26 loans is the Tallahassee backdrop. The study carries the project's case. The study behind a full-service restaurant loan request in Tallahassee should test covers per day at the seat count; seasonal swings in covers; equipment and furnishing cost against the $336,050 median; the restaurants already serving the area; the margin left after prime costs; parking and visibility at the site; break-even covers with debt added; and appraisal of a dining building. None of this forecasts a Tallahassee request. Every request is judged separately.
SBA full-service restaurant loans in the Tallahassee, FL Metro Area
| Loans approved, FY2017 to FY2026 | 26 |
|---|---|
| Gross dollars approved | $14.3 million |
| Median loan | $336,050 |
| Middle half of loans, from | $162,500 |
| Middle half of loans, to | $921,750 |
| SBA 7(a) loans | 19 |
| SBA 504 loans | 7 |
| Franchise share of loans | withheld |
| Rank among metro and micro areas for full-service restaurant loans | 170 of 821 |
| Rank of full-service restaurant among the classes in this area | 2 of 39 |
| Location quotient (share of loans against the national share) | 1.32x |
| Median loan against the national median for the class | 1.22x |
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) | withheld |
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.
SBA full-service restaurant loans approved in the Tallahassee, FL Metro Area, by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Loans | Dollars |
|---|---|---|
| FY2017 | withheld | withheld |
| FY2018 | withheld | withheld |
| FY2019 | 0 | $0 |
| FY2020 | withheld | withheld |
| FY2021 | withheld | withheld |
| FY2022 | withheld | withheld |
| FY2023 | withheld | withheld |
| FY2024 | 5 | $3.9 million |
| FY2025 | withheld | withheld |
| FY2026 | withheld | withheld |
Most active SBA lenders
| Lender | Loans | Dollars |
|---|---|---|
| Florida First Capital Finance Corporation, Inc. | 7 | $5.8 million |
| Lender | Loans | Dollars |
|---|---|---|
| The Huntington National Bank | 5 | $2.0 million |
Lenders with 5 or more loans here; a lender with fewer is not listed, and loans SBA or a receiver holds are counted but never listed as a lender.
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-45220-C34.
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