Hotel & restaurant management

Award-Winning Operators Running Hotels & Restaurants

We manage hotels and restaurants for third-party owners and for ourselves — thirty-four years, eleven states, and a long record of taking over properties that were struggling and making them work.

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Main & Main Management Co.

Owners, operators, and franchisees.

Main & Main is a family-run hospitality company. We have built restaurants from an empty shell, carried hotels through full renovations, and run multi-unit portfolios across eleven states for Applebee's, IHOP, Burger King, Pizza Hut, Holiday Inn Express, and Staybridge Suites — close to thirty completed acquisitions, integrated end to end. When we manage a property for an owner, we run it the same way we run the ones we own.

Meet the team
34Years operating
11States
$300M+Revenue managed
4,500+Employees led

Brands

The flags we fly.

Franchise brands we operate, alongside Dogwood Social House and Barrel & Bites — concepts we created and own outright.

Applebee's Dine Brands
IHOP Dine Brands
Burger King Restaurant Brands Intl.
Pizza Hut Yum! Brands
Holiday Inn Express by IHG
Staybridge Suites by IHG
Hampton by Hilton
Home2 Suites by Hilton
SpringHill Suites by Marriott
TownePlace Suites by Marriott
AC Hotel by Marriott
Element by Marriott
Ford Ford Groves
Dogwood Social House Our own brand · Visit site ↗
Dogwood Wine & Spirits Superstore Our own brand
Barrel & Bites Our own brand · Visit site ↗
Cape Catfish Prospect League
Playfield Commons In development

Trademarks are the property of their respective owners

Franchisee of the Year — IHOP, three timesTurn-Around Player of the Year — Applebee's, 2016Highest Sales Increase in North America — IHOP, 1994 & 2004Highest Average Store Volume — Pizza Hut2nd in Division for Overall Excellence — Burger KingMVP American Dream Award, 2016Rookie of the Year — Stevi B'sCivilian of the Year — Cape GirardeauBusiness Person of the Year — Ellisville Franchisee of the Year — IHOP, three timesTurn-Around Player of the Year — Applebee's, 2016Highest Sales Increase in North America — IHOP, 1994 & 2004Highest Average Store Volume — Pizza Hut2nd in Division for Overall Excellence — Burger KingMVP American Dream Award, 2016Rookie of the Year — Stevi B'sCivilian of the Year — Cape GirardeauBusiness Person of the Year — Ellisville

What we do

Four ways we take work off an owner's desk.

Hand us the whole property or the part that is giving you trouble.

01

Manage

Full operations for hotels and restaurants — staffing, standards, vendors, and a monthly report you can actually read.

02

Open

Ground-up openings. We recruit and train the team, build the workflows, and carry the property into live service.

03

Turn around

Failing inspections, weak guest scores, thin margins. We take operational control and rebuild accountability first.

04

Grow

Rate strategy, channel mix, menu engineering, and cost control — reviewed against demand instead of set once.

Leadership

It starts with the family that owns it.

Every person here has worked the floor of the businesses they now manage.

Andy Patel

Principal & Chief Executive Officer

Thirty-four years operating restaurants, hotels, and retail — an IHOP franchisee since 1992 and a multi-unit operator of Applebee's, Burger King, and Pizza Hut, with nearly thirty completed acquisitions and his own Dogwood Social House brand.

  • Franchisee of the Year — IHOP (1994, 1995, 2002)
  • Turn-Around Player of the Year — Applebee's (2016)
  • Highest Sales Increase in North America — IHOP (1994, 2004)
  • Highest Average Store Volume — Pizza Hut
  • 2nd in Division for Overall Excellence — Burger King
  • MVP American Dream Award (2016)
  • Civilian of the Year, Cape Girardeau · Business Person of the Year, Ellisville
  • 177 development projects — 148 remodels, 29 ground-up builds

Johannah Estep

Chief Operating Officer

Johannah runs operations. She came up through multi-unit franchise leadership as a president and chief operating officer, where she delivered five consecutive years of sales and profit growth, and she is the operator of record on the properties the company takes on.

  • Five consecutive years of sales and profit growth
  • Multi-unit operations across market clusters
  • Above-store structure: VPs, area directors, facilities
  • Standards, staffing, and inspection readiness

Anissa Patel

Partner

More than 27 years building and turning around businesses across restaurants, hotels, automotive, and real estate. Co-owner of the Cape Catfish, a Visit Cape board member, and the driving force behind Dogwood Social House.

  • Franchisee of the Year — IHOP (1994, 1995, 2002)
  • Operations Excellence Award — Applebee's
  • Rookie of the Year — Stevi B's
  • Board member, Visit Cape · Co-owner, Cape Catfish

Kishan Patel

Co-Founder & Chief Financial Officer

Kishan co-founded the company and runs its finance function — reporting, lender relations, and the capital structure behind every acquisition. He builds the numbers owners and lenders see, and holds each property to them once the deal is done.

  • Financial reporting across all managed properties
  • Lender relations and debt facilities
  • Acquisition underwriting and capital planning
  • G&A discipline and above-store cost control

Anand Jr.

Hotel Operations

Came up through Applebee's as a general manager and then area director over seven restaurants and roughly 140 employees. He opened Dogwood Social House from the ground up, spent a year in commercial credit underwriting, and now runs two IHG hotels totaling 219 rooms.

  • Six-month turnaround: 20+ point Guest Love gain, ~14% revenue growth
  • Ground-up restaurant opening — staffing, training, launch
  • Operated both hotels through a full major renovation
  • Underwriting background: cash flow, debt service, risk

Mina Yu

HR Manager & Administrative Support

Mina Yu serves as HR Manager and provides administrative support to Anand Jr. and the company's hotel operations. In addition to managing payroll and HR administration — onboarding, employee records, benefits, and personnel matters — she assists with accounting-related tasks and day-to-day administrative needs. She also plays an active role in workers' compensation and general liability matters, reviewing workplace injuries and claims to help identify potential liabilities and improve safety practices.

  • Payroll administration — pay, corrections, wage issues, and reporting
  • HR administration — onboarding, employee records, benefits, and personnel matters
  • Workers' compensation — injury documentation, claim follow-up, and communication
  • General liability and insurance claims, including supporting documentation
  • Incident review to identify recurring risks and improve workplace safety

Portfolio

What we own and operate today.

The properties behind the experience we bring to an owner's building.

2Holiday Inn Express & Staybridge Suites — 219 rooms
4Dogwood Social House venues
Cape CatfishProspect League baseball
IHOPFranchise restaurant
2Dogwood Wine & Spirits Superstore
1Ford dealership
ApartmentsMulti-family complexes
368K+Sq ft retail

In development

Coming soon.

Seven developments underway across the greater St. Louis region — a sports and entertainment destination in O'Fallon, four hotels, and two dining and event venues.

In development

O'Fallon Playfield Commons

A 168,000 square foot complex on a 20.59-acre site: 16 volleyball courts, 8 basketball courts, 24 pickleball courts, two indoor turf fields, a gymnastics center, a combat sports arena, batting and training cages, and a large-format trade show floor.

9760 Veterans Memorial Pkwy, O'Fallon, MO · Opening January 2028

In development

Hampton Inn

A new-build Hampton by Hilton in O'Fallon — developed, opened, and operated in-house, adding a select-service flag to the portfolio.

O'Fallon, MO · In development

In development

TownePlace Suites & SpringHill Suites

A dual-branded Marriott hotel in O'Fallon pairing extended-stay and select-service flags in one building, with shared amenities and a single operating team.

O'Fallon, MO · In development

In development

Home2 Suites

An extended-stay Home2 Suites by Hilton in O'Fallon, developed and operated in-house alongside our other hotels in the market.

O'Fallon, MO · In development

In development

AC Hotel & Element

A dual-branded Marriott hotel on the Riverwalk in Historic St. Charles — AC Hotel and Element under one roof, with two ballrooms, a pool and fitness center, and a destination restaurant, steps from the Katy Trail and the Missouri River.

Riverwalk, St. Charles, MO · In development

Coming soon

Dogwood Social House

A fifth location for our own brand, joining Cape Girardeau, Ellisville, O'Fallon MO, and O'Fallon IL: two indoor bars plus an outdoor patio bar, a self-pour beer wall, 15-hole indoor golf, three karaoke rooms, and a 9,000 square foot arcade.

At Playfield Commons · Opening January 2028 · dogwoodsocialhouse.com

Opening 2028

Barrel & Bites

A two-acre garden bourbon bar with no kitchen of its own — 80+ single-barrel bourbons, a 24-tap self-pour beer wall, an amphitheater and koi pond, and three to five local kitchens cooking a different theme every night. Weddings and private events up to 200 on the upstairs deck.

1001 Bryan Road, O'Fallon, MO · Opening 2028 · barrelnbites.live

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