Key Money for Restaurant
**What determines the size** of the **key**\-**money payments** for a  coffee shop/restaurant lease?
[{"id": "fffkxjn", "text": "Credit of tenant, Tenant work letter/delivery condition of space, annual base rent, length of term, sub-market conditions", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "fffl46s", "text": "As with anything else, just leverage. \n\n&amp;#x200B;\n\nIn theory, it should be proportional to the investment the tenant DOESN'T have to make for the buildout, but it's all a matter of what landlord's priorities are and what other options are.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}]