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Entries from August 2008

What’s the difference between retail and restaurants?

August 9th, 2008 · No Comments

Many new owners think that running a restaurant will be easy if they’ve worked in the retail world. While all their retail skills do help, there are major differences between owning and operating a retail shop, and operating a restaurant.
These include:
In the food biz, you are also the warehouse and manufacturer of the product you [...]

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Are your dirty bathrooms scaring customers away?

August 6th, 2008 · 2 Comments

The bigger a city gets, the more small restaurants with great food and dirty bathrooms there are it seems. I noticed this phenomenom recently when visiting Kansas City from Wichita, Kansas. In Wichita, we have a shortage of independently owned, small, interesting restaurants. There are a load of chains here, and plenty of restaurants to [...]

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