The city’s New Business Acceleration Team (NBAT) will be expanding to the outer boroughs

In an initiative to help food operations who open outside of Manhattan expedite city permits and applications quicker, the NBAT, a city organization that helps business owners with processing applications from the health and building departments, will now service all five boroughs. Andrew Rigie, Executive Vice President for the city chapter of the New York State Restaurant Association, sees this as the beginning of easing the burden most operators face when opening any
food operation.

The organization has helped to open 546 restaurants in Manhattan to cut down the procesing time from six months to four.