# Retail food businesses for sale in Florida — market data

> 44 active retail food listings in Florida: median asking $239,000, median SDE $89,155, and how many a lender could actually fund. Measured, not estimated.

Source: https://www.mainstreetdiligence.com/market/food-business-retail/

# Retail food businesses for sale in Florida

Counted from the crawl of September 14, 2026. Computed from the database when this page was built — not typed in. Refreshed with the weekly crawl.

As of September 14, 2026, the retail food category in Florida had **44** active business-for-sale listings on the Business Brokers of Florida MLS, with a median asking price of $239,000, median owner earnings (SDE) of $89,155, and a median asking multiple of 2.6× SDE; 8 of them (18%) could be funded by a lender at the asking price, and 3 (7%) clear every step of the screen. — Main Street Diligence, computed from the crawl of September 14, 2026. Seller-reported figures, unaudited.

- **44** active listings
- **$239,000** median asking price
- **$89,155** median owner earnings (SDE)
- **2.6×** median price ÷ SDE

Retail Food listings make up 44 of the 2,079 active Florida listings we track. The median asking price runs 28% below the statewide figure, and the median earnings multiple runs level with the statewide figure. A multiple is what you pay for each dollar the owner takes home — across all Florida industries the median is 2.7×.

## What a lender would say

- **44** active listings
- **23** **pay a manager** — still earn after a standardized $75,000 wage
- **8** **a lender could fund** — debt at asking ≤ 3.5× those earnings
- **6** **have a broker citing a document** — a tax return or P&L named behind the figures, not seen by us
- **3** **show more than one year** — a trend exists at all

Statewide, 11% survive. The steps are cumulative — each applies on top of the last, the way an acquirer actually works a market.

3 of this industry's 44 active listings (7%) clear every step — the shortlist a lender would actually entertain.

## What asking prices look like

| Asking price | Listings |
| --- | --- |
| Under $100K | 2 |
| $100K – $250K | 20 |
| $250K – $500K | 12 |
| $500K – $1M | 6 |
| $1M and up | 4 |

## How much of it is documented

Behind the headline figures: **31** listings say a tax return or P&L backs at least one year, **1** offer a broker's restatement, **8** assert numbers with nothing named behind them, and **4** publish too little to classify. A cited document means a broker typed the words into a form — nothing has been received, read or verified here. It is still the difference between a number with a paper trail and a number without one, and it is the first thing to ask any broker about.

## Where they are

| County | Listings | Median asking |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [Broward](https://www.mainstreetdiligence.com/market/broward-county/) | 7 | $150,000 |
| [Pinellas](https://www.mainstreetdiligence.com/market/pinellas-county/) | 5 | $250,000 |
| [Lee](https://www.mainstreetdiligence.com/market/lee-county/) | 5 | $300,000 |
| [Palm Beach](https://www.mainstreetdiligence.com/market/palm-beach-county/) | 4 | — |
| [Miami-Dade](https://www.mainstreetdiligence.com/market/miami-dade-county/) | 4 | — |
| [Hillsborough](https://www.mainstreetdiligence.com/market/hillsborough-county/) | 3 | — |
| [Sarasota](https://www.mainstreetdiligence.com/market/sarasota-county/) | 2 | — |
| [Orange](https://www.mainstreetdiligence.com/market/orange-county/) | 2 | — |

Rows without a link have too few listings for a page of their own; medians shown only at five or more. [See all of them in the app →](https://www.mainstreetdiligence.com/?category=Food+Business+Retail)

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Every figure on this page is seller-reported and unaudited — the checks behind our statistics test arithmetic, not truth. Medians exclude placeholder prices under $10,000. [How the screening works →](https://www.mainstreetdiligence.com/how-it-works/)