Restaurant Revitalization Fund
Small Business Administration
This program provided emergency assistance for eligible restaurants, bars, and other qualifying businesses impacted by COVID-19.
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Helps restaurants and bars recover from COVID-19 by covering their revenue losses. Funding can be up to $10 million per business, with no repayment required if used properly.
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What Is This Program?
What Benefits Are Offered?
Emergency assistance to help restaurants and other eligible food and beverage businesses keep their doors open by providing non-repayable funding equal to their pandemic-related revenue loss. Funds can be used for eligible expenses like payroll, rent, utilities, debt service, maintenance, and supplies.
Who Is Eligible?
Business Size: small
Industries: restaurants, food stands, food trucks, food carts, caterers, bars, saloons, lounges, taverns, snack and nonalcoholic beverage bars, bakeries, brewpubs, tasting rooms, taprooms, breweries, microbreweries, wineries, distilleries, inns, licensed beverage alcohol producers
Region: United States
Demographics: women-owned, veteran-owned, socially disadvantaged, economically disadvantaged
Other Criteria: experienced pandemic-related revenue loss, impacted by COVID-19, for bakeries, brewpubs, tasting rooms, taprooms, breweries, microbreweries, wineries, distilleries, inns: onsite sales to the public comprise at least 33% of gross receipts (2019 or contemplated for 2020 openings)
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📋What Are the Application Steps & Timeline?
- 📝Steps to Apply
- Apply through SBA-recognized Point of Sale (POS) vendors or directly via SBA in the online application portal.
- Prepare your application using the SBA form 3172 sample application.
- Complete the IRS Form 4506-T digitally on the SBA platform during the e-sign process.
- Submit your application through the application portal.
- 🌐Application Portal
- http://www.sba.gov/restaurants
- 📤Submission Method
- online
- 📅Key Dates
- March 11, 2023Applications closedDays 1 through 21Priority period for applicationsDays 22 through funds exhaustionOpen to all applicants
- 🔄Intake Type
- fixed-deadline
📄What Documents Are Required?
- ✅Required Documents
- IRS Form 4506-T
- Business tax returns (IRS Form 1120 or IRS 1120-S)
- IRS Forms 1040 Schedule C
- IRS Forms 1040 Schedule F
- Partnership’s IRS Form 1065 (including K-1s)
- Bank statements
- Externally or internally prepared financial statements
- Point of sale report(s), including IRS Form 1099-K
- 📎Optional Documents
- RRF program guide
- RRF sample application (SBA Form 3172)
- 📐Format Requirements
- PDF only, max 10MB
- 📥Templates Available
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💰What Expenses Are Eligible?
- 🧾Eligible Expenses
- Business payroll costs (including sick leave)
- Payments on any business mortgage obligation
- Business rent payments
- Business debt service (principal and interest)
- Business utility payments
- Business maintenance expenses
- Construction of outdoor seating
- Business supplies (including protective equipment and cleaning materials)
- Business food and beverage expenses (including raw materials)
- Covered supplier costs
- Business operating expenses
- 🚫Ineligible Expenses
- Prepayment of rent
- Prepayment of principal or interest
- Amounts received from Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans
- Amounts received from Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL)
- Advances on EIDL
- State and local grants
- SBA Section 1112 payments
- 📏Expense Caps
- Maximum award is $5 million per location, not to exceed $10 million total for the applicant.
- 💳Payment Model
- mixed
- ⏪Retroactive Expenses Eligible
- Yes
🤝Is Matching Funding Required?
- 🔀Matching Required
- No
- 🏦Eligible Matching Sources
- cash
- in-kind
- 📚Stacking Rules
- Not specified
- 🛡️Proof of Matching Required
- IRS Form 4506-T, completed and signed by Applicant
📊What Are the Reporting Requirements?
- 🗓️Reporting Frequency
- annual
- 📑Reporting Requirements
- report through the application portal how much of their award has been used against each eligible use category
- annual reporting submissions until they fully expend the award funding
- 🔍Audit Requirements
- RRF awards are not subject to Single Audit Act requirements.
- 📢Branding Requirements
- Recipients must acknowledge federal funding in their communications and materials.
- 🗄️Record Retention Period
- 3 years post-final-report
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FAQFrequently Asked Questions
This program is available to small businesses in restaurants, food stands, food trucks industries located in United States.
This program offers funding up to $10,000,000 (minimum $1,000).
This program accepts applications on a rolling basis.
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