Have you ever eaten at your favorite restaurant, only to realize there’s a new executive chef who’s ruining all the recipes? In this case, a group of restaurant entrepreneurs vowed to put an end to this, with a restaurant consulting agency.

They wanted to bring in amazing executive chefs from overseas to advise local restaurants on their efficiency and recipes. We decided on an E-2 Treaty Investor visa, which raised another problem; they were already citizens of the U.S., not nationals from an E-2 Treaty country! After a slew of contracts, promissory notes, and assurances, the entrepreneurs loaned the start-up capital to the executive chefs, who were able to enter and work in the U.S. as E-2 investors.

Picture of Gordon Ramsay in the thumbnail courtesy of By Jo-h – Flickr, CC BY 2.0,

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