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Hanrahan Investments has owned, operated, and consulted with clients in Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa over its 30+ year history. Hanrahan Investments understands the market conditions of all four states, having had locations in all of them.

Based in Kansas City, Jack Hanrahan founded Hanrahan Investments L.L.C. in 1990 after investing in two live entertainment clubs in the Westport entertainment district of Kansas City, Mo. Over the next five years, Jack left his field of commercial banking and fully transitioned into the hospitality business full time. Opening up three other highly successful format venues in Westport and the surrounding areas of Kansas City and then moving into the states of Nebraska, Iowa, Arkansas, and Oklahoma with its concept called "Guitars and Cadillacs" and then "Roadhouse Ruby's."

"Since 2000, Hanrahan Investments has provided consulting services to over forty clients..."

One of those formats that Jack co-founded, Guitars & Cadillacs, became the cutting edge format that embraced the "young country" dance genre that had started up on country radio. He brought live country acts such as Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson, Tim McGraw, Brooks and Dunn, Shania Twain, etc., to the stages of Guitars & Cadillacs. The concept was grown to a seven-site chain throughout the Midwest by the middle of the 1990s. Many of the Guitars & Cadillacs locations also had full food service, so Hanrahan learned the dos and don'ts of the food aspect of the business.

Since 2000, Hanrahan Investments has provided consulting services to over forty clients, some multi-site clients, some single-site clients. Each client is treated as a member of our family. Our philosophy is to do what the client wants us to do and offer our take and advice on specific aspects of the business.

Jack Hanrahan was born and raised in New England. Just out of high school, he and his family moved to the Kansas City area. There he enjoyed success playing in and leading some excellent rock bands in the local area. 

Jack graduated from college in the late 1970s and went into the banking field, where he became a commercial banker reaching the level of Senior Vice President in the lending area. 

Missing the music side of his life, Jack invested in two Westport live music nightclubs in the mid-1980s and promoted concerts at larger venues such as Memorial Hall, Starlight Theatre, and the Music Hall in the Kansas City area.

By 1992, Jack was involved in five nightclubs, including a new concept he was a co-founder of, Guitars & Cadillacs. Seeing the potential to take that concept to other cities, Jack left his banking career and devoted full time to his entrepreneurial endeavors. At its height, Guitars & Cadillacs had seven locations in the midwest. They licensed its name and format to eight other locations in Texas, Tennessee, and Oklahoma.

Since 2000, Jack and his company of trusted advisors, Hanrahan Investments L.L.C., have consulted with over forty hospitality companies. They assist with profit issues, live entertainment or DJ issues, growth of a concept to multi-site locations, operational issues involving front of the house and/or back of the house, menu updates, financing needs, re-concepting, re-branding, and/ or the sale of a location through a strong exit strategy.

"Every new client is a thrill for me, and I love what I do,"

said Jack recently as part of a hospitality panel he was

guest co-hosting.

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