Buying a Restaurant in Sweden: Complete Acquisition Guide
Buying a restaurant in Sweden involves navigating municipal serving licences, Livsmedelsverket food safety registration, and F-skatt compliance this guide covers the process step by step.
# Buying a Restaurant in Sweden: Complete Acquisition Guide Acquiring a restaurant in Sweden is one of the most direct routes into the Swedish hospitality market. The country has around 30,000 restaurants employing more than 140,000 people according to Visita and SCB. The 2026 market offers a serious buyer one of the better entry windows in fifteen years. A wave of retiring owners, three years of post-pandemic attrition, and sustained cost pressure on energy and wages have produced motivated sellers at multiples that would have been unthinkable in 2018. I have advised on restaurant acquisition…