Real & Rosemary

What Real & Rosemary does

Real & Rosemary is a privately-held, independent restaurant and catering company headquartered in Homewood, United States, founded in 2016. Per the available firmographic summary, it operates restaurants and provides catering services built around meals prepared from fresh ingredients using simple, familiar recipes. The company employs between 11 and 50 people, consistent with a small-to-mid independent operator likely running a single brick-and-mortar location augmented by off-premise catering.

The business model is straightforward restaurant and catering revenue: on-premise dining for walk-in/local guests combined with event-based catering contracts. There is no disclosed pricing structure, no app or digital ordering platform confirmed (the public website, realandrosemary.com, returned only a verification/loading page during data collection, indicating limited or no current digital commerce surface), and no marketing or distribution channels are documented in the input.

No further structural information is available — there are no disclosed funding rounds, investors, parent entities, M&A activity, partnerships, awards, patents, leadership bios, or geographic expansion beyond the Homewood base. As a result, the analytical picture is necessarily narrow: a small, single-market independent food-service operator of modest scale whose growth posture, capital structure, and strategic trajectory cannot be substantiated from the available evidence.

Name

Real & Rosemary

Website

https://realandrosemary.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Real & Rosemary is a privately-held independent restaurant and catering operator in Homewood, United States, founded in 2016, serving meals made from fresh ingredients in simple, familiar recipes to local dine-in and event-catering customers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Restaurant Services

NAICS

Full-Service Restaurants (722511), Caterers (722320)

SIC

Retail-Eating & Drinking Places (5810)

akta.pro primary industry

Farm-to-Table & Contemporary American Restaurants (THAFACAF)

akta.pro secondary industry

Private Chef & In-Home Dining Services (HSACAGAE)

Keywords

• Restaurant dining
• Catering services
• Fresh ingredient meals
• Homemade recipes
• Comfort food

Headquarters

HQ city

Homewood

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

Real & Rosemary operates restaurants and catering services offering meals made from fresh ingredients in simple, familiar recipes. The business serves the Homewood, USA market with both dine-in restaurant offerings and off-premise catering for events and gatherings.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Restaurant Dining Dine-in restaurant service providing meals made from fresh ingredients using simple, familiar recipes for individual consumers in the Homewood, USA area.
• Catering Services Off-premise catering service providing freshly prepared meals for events and gatherings, targeting event hosts and small local businesses in the Homewood, USA area.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Direct peers

• CAVA: Fast-casual Mediterranean concept built around fresh, simple ingredients and customizable bowls. Comparable on the fresh-ingredient, simple-recipe framing that anchors Real & Rosemary's menu approach.
• True Food Kitchen: Full-service restaurant chain focused on fresh, ingredient-forward menus with health-conscious positioning. Comparable on full-service dining with a farm-to-table value proposition and catering/event services.
• Freshii: Fast-casual franchise serving fresh, health-forward bowls, salads, and wraps. Comparable on the fresh-ingredient casual-dining model and on operating catering for corporate clients.
• Farm Burger: Regional farm-to-table burger concept sourcing from local pastured producers. Directly comparable on the farm-to-table positioning, simple fresh menu, and Southern U.S. footprint adjacent to Homewood.
• Sweetgreen: Fast-casual chain built on fresh, sourced ingredients and simple, seasonal menus. Highly comparable on the farm-to-table positioning and casual-dining service model that Real & Rosemary emphasizes.

Broad incumbents

• Zoës Kitchen: Mediterranean fast-casual chain (now under CAVA) emphasizing fresh, simple Mediterranean plates. Comparable on fresh-ingredient casual dining and catering services to offices and events.
• Seasons 52: National full-service fresh-menu concept (Darden) emphasizing seasonal ingredients and lighter fare, plus catering for events. Operates at significantly larger scale but overlaps on the fresh-ingredient full-service positioning and catering offering.

Regional players

• Another Broken Egg Cafe: Daytime cafe concept with a strong Southern U.S. presence and catering offerings. Comparable as a Southern-region full-service casual concept with catering operations serving local markets.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses3 records

Competitive moat1 record

Key risks3 records

Key highlights3 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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

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