Starting a Food Truck or Restaurant: Business & Legal Issues - Jan 29, 2014 

Overview: 

The seminar will cover some key issues related to owning and operating a food truck and restaurant. Topics related to business modeling, profitability and sustainability will be covered as well as legal and regulatory issues related to permitting, liability and food safety. 

Description:

The following description is for the three hour workshop. Each speaker will cover roughly one third of the time with breaks as needed. We will leave time for discussion and question and answer so the Food Trucks, Restaurant and Food Legal and Compliance Issues common to both are covered.

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 Speakers:

Beth Kregor is a lawyer and the Director of the Institute for Justice Clinic on Entrepreneurship at The University of Chicago Law School. She has been involved in food truck issues in the City of Chicago, she has spoken on the issues, and she has organized events and symposia on the topic of Food Trucks and other topics related to entrepreneurship.

Philip Mott is an Assistant Professor at Kendall College. Philip Mott has been involved in the restaurant and hospitality industry for the last twenty- five years.  Mr. Mott received a BA in history from the State University of New York at Buffalo and an MBA in Finance from The University of Chicago. He began in the industry by helping start a café with his brother in Hyde Park in 1981. This venture grew to fifteen cafes, a catering company, a bakery and commissary, and a vending company. Mr. Mott helped to found Park Restaurants, which operates North Pond, the award winning restaurant in Lincoln Park. In addition, Mr. Mott has worked in the investment-banking field working on a futures options risk analysis program and setting up a venture capital fund. He also was the Director of Operations for a fine wine distributor. He has done independent consulting for many years and served as an advisor at a Small Business Administration / Small Business Development Center. Mr. Mott’s restaurant career includes being proprietor of Le Français, the noted French restaurant in Wheeling, Illinois. During his tenure, Le Français received the Five Diamond Award from AAA, the Mobil Four Star award and Four-Stars from the Chicago Tribune.  He has also worked for Bennigans, Levy Restaurants and the National Restaurant Association in Washington, D.C. Mr. Mott serves on the Chicago Public Schools Taskforce for Healthy Eating and with the Healthy Schools Campaign.

 Rich Schell is an attorney, educator and author. He focuses his law practice on food, farm and publishing clients. He teaches Food Law and Regulation at the Illinois Institute of Technology, and he is an adjunct instructor at Kendall College. Rich has taught Food Law, Green Law and Law for Illinois Ag Entrepreneurs and Sustainability and Hospitality Management. He is the co-author of the Illinois Legal Guide for Direct Farm Marketing, two books on immigration law, and one on raising money.  Rich is a past President of The Chicago Farmers--a not for profit with the mission of educating people about farmland as an investment.