Entrepreneurs fret over packaging and a host of other details as they get started, and then leave one of the most important aspects as an afterthought. The sad truth is that the right name can sometimes make all the difference when it comes to propelling a business to success, rather than just slogging on.
Names are quite powerful. Each word has a distinct difference. Get the name right, and you get branding as a by-product of your advertising.
Entrepreneurs starting out, seeking a name for their business: 7 Quick Tips
April 24, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Starbucks Teams up with Opportunity Finance Network to help create jobs
April 24, 2012 by Leave a Comment
In November, Starbucks teamed up with the Opportunity Finance Network, a membership network of more than 180 Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) that provides loans and counseling to community businesses on the Create Jobs for USA Fund. Since November 2011 the fund raised about $2 million, helping to create or retain more than 2,300 jobs, many in poor communities.
The Create Jobs for USA program also provides capital grants to select CDFIs. These groups, in turn, provide loans to underserved community businesses like microenterprises, nonprofit organizations, commercial real estate ventures and affordable housing firms. The goal of Create Jobs for USA is to bring people and communities together to create and sustain jobs throughout America.
Starbucks Founder Howard Schultz makes good on his promise to invest in small business programs.
Women Chefs & Restaurateurs NYC Event, May 8th, 2012: Entrepreneurs opening a Restaurant or Retail Store
April 24, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Thinking of opening your own fast casual restaurant, café or store? Join Women Chefs and Restaurateurs along with TaraPaige Group and other women experts for a panel about what you need to know before taking the leap and making your dreams come true. A panel of hospitality experts will provide insights that will set you up for success and answer your questions about what you need to know to start your own brick and mortar business. We will address the top concerns of many emerging businesses from writing the business plan and researching the market to finding the right space and negotiating favorable terms to getting legal advice to designing the space and building it out according to code and finally promoting it to the public.
Learn what it takes, how to prepare and when to make the jump from dreaming to executing.
Join Women Chefs and Restaurateurs on May 8th at the French Culinary Institute from 6pm-8pm
Chipotle’s Quest for Increased Throughput leads to an Increase in Sales
April 23, 2012 by Leave a Comment
We have all admired the Chipotle Model and how efficient the business runs. Many emerging businesses we work with look to the Chipotle model from a financial and operational perspective of what works so well in the fast casual restaurant segment. Although they have achieved such a great model, all models must continue to be looked at, analyzed and tweaked to ensure businesses are achieving the maximum levels they should be. Take a read on how Chipotle continues to enhance their business.
Chipotle Keeps doing it.. Increasing the throughput for greater sales
New Amsterdam Market Celebrates opening Season with 15 Bakers, April 29th
April 23, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Join New Amsterdam Market as they open the 2012 season by welcoming 15 local bakers, each of whom will be creating their vision of a great loaf of bread made with flour from a variety of grains now being grown in our region. Many good friends and colleagues are participating including the New Bakery, Runner and Stone, headed by Peter Endriss.
Small Business Expo, a Must for new Entrepreneurs, May 10th
April 21, 2012 by Leave a Comment
The small business expo is taking place on May 10th in NYC at Penn Plaza. Join many other business owners, participate in workshops and network within your industry and meet new colleagues outside of your industry.
NYC Small Business Expo at Penn Plaza, Midtown
Brooklyn Food Conference May 12th, 9am-6pm
April 20, 2012 by Leave a Comment
On May 12, 2012 over 5,000 people are expected to attend this free, all day event filled with keynotes from notable food activists, workshops, panel discussions, food demos, family programming, art and much more. The 2012 Conference will help strengthen the cooperative effort of individuals, groups and organizations fighting everyday for a healthy, sustainable and fair food system. Food activists, local farmers, academics, restaurateurs and health advocates and all those interested in food justice will gather to discuss the global food economy and its impact on our lives.
Join 5,000 others and support the Brooklyn Food Conference
Local Chef Preparing Authentic Chinese Food in Williamsburg, NYC
April 20, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Brooklyn Wok Shop opened two and a half months ago in the notoriously hip and culinarily erudite neighborhood of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, N.Y. The restaurant’s most popular dish is General Tso’s chicken.
A preference for the most ordinary of Chinese-American takeout staples could seem peculiar in a neighborhood whose denizens thrive on food like shrimp with house-cured lardo at Betto restaurant or sunchoke soup with pickled shallot, fried rosemary and brandied cherries at Diner. However, Chinese takeout classics are what you’re supposed to get at Brooklyn Wok Shop, where the chicken specialty is on the menu for $10.50, along with typical beef and broccoli for $11.50 — $12.50 with a fried egg on top — and wonton soup for $12.50.
The dishes are served in a 60-seat modern urban restaurant with blond wood slats for walls and 1950s and ’60s pop music playing on the sound system.The average per-person check ranges from $22 to $26, according to chef-owner Edric Har.
Read more: http://nrn.com/article/brooklyn-wok-shops-take-takeout?NL=NRN-03&Issue=NRN-03_20120420_NRN-03_999&YM_RID=%60email%60&YM_MID=%60mmid%60#ixzz1saE63zAd
Local Chef preparing authentic Chinese Food in Williamsburg, NY
Celebrate Earth Day with NYC Greenmarket with Food Scrap and Textile Recyclying
April 20, 2012 by Leave a Comment
What better way to celebrate Earth Day than by visiting your local Greenmarket to recycle food scraps and textiles? GrowNYC is happy to help, with new sites for dropping off unwanted clothing, linens, and fruit & veggie scraps opening this weekend and throughout the Spring.
Join NYC Greenmarket in celebrating Earth Day
David’s Teas Integrates Multiple IT systems for One Platform including scheduling, POS and inventory management
April 19, 2012 by Leave a Comment
While the company’s rapid growth is just what business owners want, it has also presented challenges — most notably within the IT systems. The inventory and sales systems were not connected, so the system might show an inventory balance, but not provide any value to it. The warehouse management system lacked the ability to track each store’s inventory to a specific location within the facility. And because the merchandising system lacked effective forecasting or replenishment tools, the buying function was handled via spreadsheets.
Management needed a way to assemble more accurate information in order to reduce stock-outs and increase inventory turns. Choquette and his colleagues began looking for a new system in early 2010, ultimately deciding on Microsoft Dynamics AX.
David’s Tea integrates multiple IT systems to create one platform
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