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
Celebrate Earth Day with NYC Greenmarket with Food Scrap and Textile Recyclying
April 20, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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
Fox News Small Business Spotlights Opening a Specialty Food Store or Restaurant
April 18, 2012 by Leave a Comment
One of the tricks to opening a successful specialty restaurant is finding a niche market. While serving dishes made entirely with organic, local and/or vegetarian ingredients isn’t anything new, it may still give you the edge you need to draw a steady stream of customers to your café or restaurant.
Appeals court delays April 30 National Labor Relations Board
April 17, 2012 by Leave a Comment
In a major setback for the National Labor Relations Board, a federal appeals court today officially put the brakes on a new poster mandate that the NLRB sought to impose on most U.S. businesses starting April 30.
Despite a series of legal setbacks, the NLRB had appeared to be moving ahead with its planned April 30 enforcement date for the controversial new poster requirement. The unusual NLRB rule seeks to require most U.S. businesses to hang new 11″ x 17″ workplace notices advising employees of their rights to organize into unions. Many have called the posters biased and heavily slanted toward unions.
OpenTable meets its match in table reservation with the introduction of CityEats
April 16, 2012 by Leave a Comment
The success of Food Network-owned (a Scripps Networks Interactive Inc. company) CityEats in Philadelphia and Washingtion D.C. has the food industry playing close attention. The 130 restaurants that have signed up thus far are paying lower monthly costs and reservation fees compared to OpenTable– making it a little easier to stretch your margins.
OpenTable does offer a cheaper service without a table-management system
Startup Lessons From The Food Truck Revolution
April 16, 2012 by Leave a Comment
The food truck phenomenon has taken the country by storm. From New York to Los Angeles, the number, the variety, and the quality of food trucks are on the rise. In 2011, the mobile food industry in the United States was estimated to be at $630 million.
Read about the following interview with Natasha Case of Coolhaus, the first gourmet branded truck with a national reach, on how she built her brand and her food-truck business. Coolhaus operates four trucks and a shop in Los Angeles, two trucks in Austin, two trucks and a cart in New York City, and two trucks in Miami. They also have a successful retail product that they sell in Whole Foods Market.
Fast Company Interview with Natasha Case, Owner of Coolhaus
The world’s largest rooftop farm is on its way to Sunset Park, Brooklyn
April 9, 2012 by Leave a Comment
BrightFarms, a Manhattan-based finance and development organization for greenhouses, is spearheading a project to build an 100,000 square-foot hydroponic greenhouse in Brooklyn. The greenhouse is expected to produce 1 million pounds of local produce per year.
Brooklyn currently has 224 community gardens to date
Smorgasburg also re-opens this weekend but without the spirits
April 5, 2012 by Leave a Comment
After recent efforts to allow local beer, wine and spirits to be hosted at the market, Brooklyn Flea
co-founder Eric Demby recently showed the local Community Board a 10-page petition signed by local residents who support having wine and spirits at the market.
Community Board 1 will decide on Smorgasburg’s liquor license on April 17th
Dekalb Market kick-offs the market season this weekend with The Spring Weekender from 10am – 6pm
April 5, 2012 by Leave a Comment
The Spring Weekender at Dekalb Market
On Saturday April 7th – Sunday, April 8th, The Dekalb Market will feature over 40 food and retail vendors, workshops for adults and children with live music.
Find out more about this free to attend event
Bees are buzzing their way up to the rooftop at The Waldorf-Astoria in New York City
April 4, 2012 by Leave a Comment
In May, the hotel plans to install one mature hive of 20,000 bees and five starter hives of 5,000 with the expectation to have 300,000 bees by August. The honey produced on site will be used by the restaurant in the hotel.
The hotel is also planning to build a rooftop farm in the near future
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