Small Business Labs

APRIL 8, 2018

The area is undergoing a healthy revival with niche retail stores, unique restaurants, and longtime anchor businesses that feed the economic pipeline and build a stronger neighborhood.   The also have a growing number of farm to table restaurants. The future for Lincoln Park is full of promise and great potential.”.

Restaurants 200

Restaurants 200

Small Business Labs

DECEMBER 16, 2021

.  They only included workers who earned money by providing the following services via online gig platforms:  " driving for a ride-hailing app; shopping for or delivering groceries or household items; performing household tasks like cleaning someone’s home or assembling furniture, or running errands like picking up dry cleaning; making (..)

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2021 Restaurants Policies UPS 233

Small Business Labs

APRIL 7, 2020

  Consumer concerns about potential new outbreaks lead to a slow recovery for the travel, entertainment, restaurant, and related industries.  Consumer concerns about new outbreaks lead to a very slow recovery for the travel, restaurant and entertainment industries as well as other industries where social distancing is required. 

2015 190

2015 Restaurants Retirement Travel 190

Small Business Labs

AUGUST 17, 2020

Family farms are also under financial stress due to trade wars and the impact of COVID-19 restaurant and cafeteria shutdowns.  .  And many of them only survive because the farmer has other sources of income.   So any help family farmers can get is appreciated.

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Networking Restaurants Finance Purchasing 173

Small Business Labs

AUGUST 4, 2020

This will likely result in leaner staffing in retail stores, restaurants, factories, and other places where companies have invested in labor-saving automation systems.

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Policies Clothes Restaurants Travel 208

Small Business Labs

MAY 21, 2019

Food delivery is a small fraction (5% to 10%, depending on ranking criteria) of the overall restaurant sales and is set to grow at a CAGR of roughly 20%.  Amazon's renewed interest in this space - Amazon Restaurants pulled out of the U.K.   Second, investors believe food delivery business models can be profitable.

Restaurants 114

Restaurants 2018 Finance UPS 114

Small Business Labs

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

The rapid growth of food delivery is also creating opportunities for a new kind of restaurant. Referred to as "ghost" or "cloud" Kitchens, these restaurants prepare food for off-site dining only and use firms like GrubHub and Uber Eats for delivery.  industry leader GrubHub.

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Restaurants 2019 Policies Filing 119

Small Business Labs

MAY 7, 2019

  Accor is planning on rolling out 3 different types of spaces under the brand name Wojo: Wojo Spots: touchdown spaces located in the lobby's, restaurants and bars of Accor hotel properties and meant to appeal to those who need a place to work while traveling.

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Restaurants 2022 Travel 114

Small Business Labs

APRIL 5, 2018

We think the key quote from the report is: “You can create your restaurant on wheels for $50,000 to $60,000. .  The study chart below shows the top 10 food truck friendly cities, with  Portland leading the list.    See the report for the complete list. Boston, BTW, came in last.

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2012 Restaurants Goals AT&T 160

Small Business Labs

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Many places around the country now have bundles of amenities—renovated old buildings, coffee shops and good restaurants, music venues, and not least of all, more affordable homes—that can compete with the biggest cities.

Restaurants 143

Restaurants Collaborate Skills Management 143

Small Business Labs

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

.  But my favorite example comes from Samsung's article Using Samsung Gear VR to Revolutionize the Restaurant Experience  and illustrated in their picture below. I know I can't wait to wear a VR headset at my favorite restaurant.  Don't expect it to be widely used in restaurants anytime soon.

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Small Business Labs

JUNE 28, 2018

.  UBS is even suggesting this forecast could be low, saying: "There could be a scenario where by 2030 most meals currently cooked at home are instead ordered online and delivered from either restaurants or central kitchens.”. The Forbes article points out the counter trend of more people saying they are “cooking enthusiasts”.

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2017 Restaurants AT&T 144

Small Business Labs

MAY 12, 2020

Instead, the next few months are going to feel like an empty-chair economy, with new shift patterns at factories, half-full buses and trains, staggered opening hours and unusually roomy restaurants.

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Restaurants 2008 2009 Training 148

Small Business Labs

JUNE 11, 2018

 Spring Place also operates an all-day dining restaurant, bar and lounge, which in turn comes with two private dining rooms for more reserved situations. Here's how we described Spring Place then: "Spring Place goes beyond just offering stylish work environs in an enviable zipcode. Spring

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Small Business Labs

OCTOBER 19, 2017

This is a "digital media platform that offers pet news to Minnesota dog owners and directs them to public spots — coffee shops, restaurant patios, breweries and shops — where their pets are welcome." The small business  Sidewalk Dog is mentioned.

Restaurants 150

Restaurants 150

Small Business Labs

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

They dream of becoming YouTube stars, famous videogame vloggers, or Instagram travel bloggers who are paid by sponsors to visit hotels and restaurants around the world and generate sufficient number of likes. What's interesting about this is as recently as 5 years ago, it's unlikely a senior government official in Europe or the U.S.

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Social Media Restaurants Finance Collaborate 157

Small Business Labs

JULY 31, 2012

  And the response from brick and mortar restaurants is a classic example of how incumbent industry participants tend to respond - by using their political power to try and fend off the innovative new firms.  Brick and mortar restaurants have a powerful card to play - they pay a lot more local taxes than food trucks do.

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Restaurants Legal Social Media Expenses 100

Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2011

Shashi Bellamkonda has a great post on the Smartblog for Restaurants on his tax-free lunch plan.    Key quote from his blog post: "President Barack Obama and Congress could join together to pass a law that allows any taxpayer spending $1,000 at restaurants in 2011 to write off that amount." I'm in. 

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Social Media Restaurants 2011 Networking 100

Small Business Labs

JULY 23, 2014

.  Accroding to the Atlanta Fed the primary takeaways from the chart are: The percent of the workforce that is part time varies greatly across industries (compare for example, durable goods manufacturing with restaurants).

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Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Restaurant chain Chili's is rolling out table top tablet computers to most of their 1200 locations after a successful test run earlier this year. Expect to see more tablets in restaurants. The goal, according to the company, isn't to replace their human wait staff. It's to get diners to spend more per visit.

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Restaurants Equipment AT&T Goals 100

Small Business Labs

AUGUST 5, 2013

But due to heavy pressure from existing restaurants, the city is putting strict limitations on food truck numbers and operations.  Brick and mortar restaurants don't like the competition and are using their political power to try and fend off food trucks.

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Restaurants 100

Small Business Labs

MARCH 27, 2013

Adding to this regulatory morass is attempts by traditional brick and mortar restaurants to use their political power to contain and constrain the growth the food trucks, which they see as a competitive threat. Traditional brick and mortar restaurants pay a lot more local taxes than the food truck industry.  They include the U.S.

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Restaurants 100

Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

The Forbes article Survey Says Americans are Losing Their Appetite for McDonald's, Taco Bell and Burger King covers a study showing that consumers - and especially Millennials - are choosing fast casual restaurants over fast food places. Key

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Small Business Labs

AUGUST 8, 2016

Business Insider's  FOOD WARS: We tried 7 different delivery services to see who would bring us the best lunch  points out that: In the US, analysts estimate that only 10% of restaurants take online orders. That means there's 90% of the market left to conquer, which has created a gold rush of companies trying to cash in. 

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Restaurants 100

Small Business Labs

JULY 16, 2012

.  Food trucks are much cheaper to start and can get to market much faster than brick and mortar restaurants.  In many cases food trucks are being used as lean startup-like laboratories to test potential brick and mortar restaurant ideas.  Food trucks can quickly and easily test new concepts, menus and recipes.

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Restaurants Goals Learning 100

Small Business Labs

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

The restaurant consultants Baum + Whiteman released The 17 Hottest Food and Dining Trends for 2013.  Key quote on the appeal: Consumers are trading down like crazy, bypassing casual dinner houses, leaping from full service restaurants directly to fast-casual formats and sacrificing service but believing the food is still “fresh.”

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2013 Restaurants AT&T 100

Small Business Labs

JULY 2, 2012

.    - The Great Recession, which has made it much harder to finance and start a traditional restaurant.  The costs and the financial risks are much lower - and food trucks can be used to test out menu items and concepts that, if successful, can become brick and mortar restaurants.

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Social Media Restaurants 2008 2009 100

Small Business Labs

JULY 20, 2012

 According to the NPD Group  there are about 600,000 restaurants in the U.S.  This would mean there are 5 food trucks for every brick and mortar restaurant. .  This would mean about 1 out of every 14 employed Americans works in a food truck. This seems unlikely to me.    The U.S. Census concurs.

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Restaurants 100

Small Business Labs

JUNE 2, 2015

Self-employed workers such as shop and restaurant owners, etc. On-call workers (people called to work when needed (3.5%). Contract company workers (3.0%). Independent contractors who provide a product or service and find their own customers (12.9%). Standard part-time workers (16.2%). of the workforce is self-employed.

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Temping 2005 Agencies Restaurants 100

Small Business Labs

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

big stores and restaurants are chasing richer customers with a wider offering of high-end goods and services, or focusing on rock-bottom prices to attract the expanding ranks of penny-pinching consumers."  See our job polarization category for more on this topic.

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2014 Restaurants 2008 100

Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

" PSFK's Artisanal Food Hall Brings Gourmet Food Vendors Under One Roof covers All Good Things , a restaurant and food hall in New York City. All roads lead to the Internt and its democratising ability: networked knowledge, networked contacts, networked marketing and even networked manufacturing."

Restaurants 100

Restaurants Networking UPS 100

Small Business Labs

APRIL 4, 2017

  Despite its importance, the shift to variable cost business models get little attention.

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2008 2007 Restaurants Customer Service 178

Small Business Labs

APRIL 24, 2017

  Despite its importance, the shift to variable cost business models get little attention.

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Small Business Labs

MARCH 18, 2013

As readers of our report on the food truck industry already know, one of the major appeals of food trucks is they are a lot cheaper to start and operate than brick and mortar restaurants. Food Trikes and Scooters are taking this a step further by offering a solution that is even cheaper than food trucks. They

Restaurants 100

Restaurants Goals UPS 100

Small Business Labs

AUGUST 30, 2012

They ate at their favorite food trucks, neighborhood restaurants and, sometimes, they ate home-cooked meals in their homes." They shopped with them. " What they found was hippsters in their 20s and 30s "are restless spirits with adventurous tastes." They " They also found this cohort likes food trucks.

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Learning Restaurants UPS 100

Small Business Labs

AUGUST 10, 2012

 I think it's safe to say if the Pineapple Express is successful, Choy will create a brick and mortar restaurant in LA. .   This is an example of one of the great business model advantages of food trucks - they can be used as a low cost way to test out and get established in a new market.

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Restaurants 100

Small Business Labs

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

In particular, the leisure and hospitality sector (establishments like restaurants, bars and hotels) has added workers at a strong clip, including 53,000 positions last month. .  As another New York Times article - Where the Private Sector's Gain Are - points out: service industries have driven job growth in the recovery, adding 2.1

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Restaurants 100