I recently inherited a commercial property that houses a restaurant, so my feet have basically been held to the fire right off the bat, but I'm learning a lot.  

A couple meetups I've heard of have been held at chain restaurants La Madeleine, Chuy's, and Olive Garden, as well as Fox and Hound that @Cameron Marmon that recommended.

The best business trining I received was as a manager for a major restaurant chain before I went out on my own full time.Funny thing is I would only hire people with advanced degrees for C level positions in my companies especially CFO. 

The city of Everett has big plans to spend $635M over the next few years for a new hotel, new shopping center, new restaurants, 3.5 miles of walking/biking trails, 2 new waterfront parks (one with paddle board rentals), 4 new puget sound viewpoints, an outdoor performing arts venue and 400,000 sq ft of new office space.

I can think of a few cities that could use a good bbq restaurant...

Or you see online reviews about a restaurant you love that were negative, or saw great reviews and you had a bad experience.

.), and all of the Lake Winnipesaukee communities, with artist lofts and commercial space for a restaurant or brew pub in an unsaturated market. 

They are there to help you as you have requested, but it is still your business and you yourself are ultimately accountable for its success or failureLetting your property manager own the property listing on Airbnb is like a head chef letting the dishwasher set the menu at a fancy restaurant.

I do also have a property in Tower Grove south next to Grand Ave (lots of cool restaurants in walking distance)...doesn't perform as well as the others, but likely best suited for appreciation.

Their restaurants average about 5 million minimum in sales and some do 10 million annually which is staggering as it compares to a dine in Cheesecake factory with much larger tickets per person.They give employee chance from within to partially own and operate ONE store.