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Resilience Stories: After Her Father Was Deported, She Bought and Expanded His New Jersey Restaurant

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The morning was like any other , the monotony of life so quickly forgotten: wake up, shower, coffee, drive to work, rinse, repeat. After the exchange of her license and registration, another undercover vehicle pulled up. She left her job, withdrew every cent of her 401(k), and bought her father’s Peruvian restaurant, El Gordo.

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This 27-Year-Old Left a Promising Architecture Career to Revamp Her Family’s Struggling Hotel Business

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A miner by trade, Papa Lance acquired the property in 1993 after he gave up his career mining silver and took over the inn from owner Sam Brooks. She flew up to Wallace to discuss the situation with her mother, but this was more than she was prepared to handle as a 22-year-old just out of college.

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5 Ways to Thrill Your Customers (Because a Thank You Email Just Doesn’t Cut It Anymore)

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The agent pays to put them up in a luxury condo overnight, covers the change fees on their flights, and sells them a home the next day. Or what about an elegant restaurant that has a dress code prohibiting shorts? Instead of turning someone away, a restaurant staffer escorts him to a private closet that has “loaner pants.”

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Use Due Diligence to Make Investing Easier

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Most of us do at least a little due diligence in our everyday lives: checking restaurant reviews or comparing prices on an item we’re considering for purchase with various websites and stores to find the best deal. Be sure to include any opportunity costs that you may have to forfeit by going with a particular strategy.

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Does Money Really Make People Happier?

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After the anxiety to provide life’s basics, like food, a roof over your family’s head and an emergency fund is diminished, then you can look to the pleasurable perks of financial success, like reservations to that fancy French restaurant around the corner or a weekend spa treatment. Giving up happiness to purchase pleasure is a bad deal.

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How to Buy a Franchise Restaurant

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The restaurant industry has attracted entrepreneurs from all walks of life to try their hand at restaurant management and ownership. Research shows that one in every three restaurants closes its doors for good within the first three years of business.

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Small Business Advice: Keeping Your Restaurant or Cafe Competitive

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But particularly when it comes to trying to start up a restaurant or café, there is even more competition that you have to work against. Whenever anyone tries to start a small business, it’s an uphill battle. That’s why it’s important to gather and follow as much small-business advice as you can.