The BoatYard Grill Restaurant

Name

The BoatYard Grill Restaurant

Legal name

The Boatyard Grill

Website

https://boatyardgrill.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2000

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Waterfront Restaurant / Hospitality Services

NAICS

Full-Service Restaurants (722511), Drinking Places (Alcoholic Beverages) (722410)

SIC

Retail-Eating & Drinking Places (5810)

akta.pro primary industry

Neighborhood & Sports Bars (THAFAEAA)

Keywords

• Waterfront dining
• Restaurant services
• Private events
• Bar and cocktails
• Live music venue

Headquarters

HQ city

Ithaca

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Food and Beverage Sales: Restaurant generates revenue through dine-in food and beverage sales. Operates with multiple menu offerings including Regatta Lunch Menu on weekends, Full Dinner Menu, and bar service featuring Brugal Rum cocktails. Happy hour promotions from 4pm-6pm drive beverage sales.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

The BoatYard Grill is a single-location waterfront restaurant on Cayuga Lake in Ithaca, NY, serving dine-in lunch (Regatta Menu on weekends) and dinner (Full Menu Wednesday through Sunday), a full bar featuring cocktails, beer, and Brugal Rum specialties with daily happy hour (4pm-6pm), private event hosting for groups of 12+ on Mondays/Tuesdays and weekday luncheons, gift cards, and recurring entertainment programming including a Friday night Summer Music Series and soccer tournament viewing.

Product overview

The BoatYard Grill is a waterfront restaurant on Cayuga Lake in Ithaca, NY, celebrating 25 years of operation. The core offering consists of dine-in dining services (Eat) with lunch featuring the Regatta Menu on weekends and dinner with a Full Menu, complemented by a bar area (Drink) serving cocktails, beer, and Brugal Rum specialties with daily happy hours. Additional services include private event hosting for groups of various sizes, gift cards, and seasonal entertainment through the 2026 Summer Music Series featuring live bands on Friday nights. The restaurant supports call-ahead reservations for parties under 12 and accepts inquiries for graduation celebrations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Dine-in Restaurant Service (Eat) Full-service dine-in restaurant offering the Regatta Lunch Menu on Saturdays and Sundays from 11am to 2pm and a Full Dinner Menu served Wednesday through Sunday evenings, for walk-in guests at the Ithaca waterfront location.
• Bar and Beverage Service (Drink) Full bar service offering cocktails, cold beer, and Brugal Rum specialty cocktails, with happy hour promotions from 4pm-6pm Wednesday through Sunday for guests at the Ithaca location.
• Private Events and Large Group Bookings

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Brugal RumcoreGTM or Marketing PartnerBrugal Rum is featured as the sponsor for the Friday night Summer Music Series. Partnership includes branded cocktails featured during happy hour (4pm-6pm) and band performances. Restaurant promotes 'beautifully-crafted Brugal Rum cocktails' as part of the summer entertainment offering.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Chart House: National waterfront-themed steak and seafood restaurant chain. Comparable as a multi-location full-service restaurant leveraging a waterfront/scenic-view positioning and full bar — a scaled analog of BYG's waterfront dining moat.
• Buffalo Wild Wings: National sports-bar chain specializing in wings, beer, and multi-screen sports viewing. Comparable as a sports-viewing-and-bar-anchored casual dining competitor, though operating at vastly greater scale and without the waterfront differentiator.
• BJ's Restaurant Brewhouse: National casual-dining chain with in-house brewing, full bar, and happy hour programming. Comparable as a scaled full-service restaurant-bar hybrid targeting similar family/group dining and beer-and-cocktail occasions.
• Applebee's: National casual-dining chain with bar service and happy hour programming. Comparable as a broad full-service restaurant-bar competitor for everyday dine-in and bar occasions, with overlap in family/group dining use cases.
• Hard Rock Cafe: Global themed restaurant-bar combining full dining with live music and memorabilia-driven entertainment. Comparable as a full-service restaurant integrating live music programming and bar-led beverage sales — a scaled analog of BYG's music-and-bar positioning.

Regional players

• The Ithaca Ale House: Ithaca neighborhood pub and restaurant. Comparable as a local full-service restaurant-bar hybrid competing for the same dinner, sports-viewing, and casual-drinking occasions in the same primary geography.
• Glenwood Pines: Long-running Ithaca casual dining restaurant. Comparable as a single-location, independently owned regional restaurant serving the same community with a similar dine-in, bar, and casual-supper-club positioning.
• Moosewood Restaurant: Iconic Ithaca-based full-service restaurant operating since 1973. Directly comparable as a single-location, independently owned destination restaurant in the same local market with comparable scale and community brand recognition.
• Maxie's Supper Club: Ithaca full-service supper club and oyster bar with live music programming. Comparable as a local single-location restaurant offering dinner service, bar, and entertainment — a directly competing format for evening and event traffic.
• Taverna Banfi: Ithaca full-service restaurant located within a hotel. Comparable as a regional full-service dining destination targeting visitors, families, and group occasions in the same local market.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/the-boatyard-grill-restaurant

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

Frequently asked questions about The BoatYard Grill Restaurant