Do you have experience in restaurants or currently run a food operation of some sort or just cook barbecue and they like your barbecue and want to invest? Will you just be a pitmaster and they hire someone to run the restaurant? I don't mean to be negative here, just want you to look at all sides of this before you are in too deep. I've often thought to myself what if someone came up to me with an offer like you have gotten and what I would do. While I can't answer that question really until there is actually an offer out there I have often thought that if I were to get an offer like this there is a good chance I would turn it down. My reasoning? Well I'mm running a small catering business that I built from nothing into a small six-figure annual business and I make the rules, I decide when to take a vacation when to run an add, buy equipment, turn down a job or take all I can get. Whatever happens, it is my decision and up to me. If I were to take an offer like you have gotten, those investors would OWN ME. I would become a small chunk of their operation and what they say goes. For me, that would go against everything that I got into this business for. I think the only way I'd be all in on this kind of offer would be if there was a crazy offer like 40% ownership and a huge salary. Otherwise, I'll keep being my own boss and building my business slowly like an oak tree.