You can have an extensive food and coffee menu which includes breakfast, lunch sandwiches, salads and sides with an interesting selection of baked cookies. Think Sunflower Almond Cherry, Carrot Zucchini with Walnuts and Currants, Molasses Spice with Crystallized Ginger and much more. Sounds delicious!
Hungry Ghost is located on 253 Flatbush Avenue between Bergen Street and St. Marks Avenue
New coffee bar, Hungry Ghost, is now brewing Stumptown coffee in Park Slope
April 19, 2012 by Leave a Comment
South Africa’s Rooibos Tea is on the Rise
April 18, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Production of the crop more than tripled to 14,000 metric tons the past decade as farmers expanded rooibos plantings to meet demand from companies including the world’s largest coffee shop operator and Nestle SA (NESN), the biggest food company.Tea consumption is increasing as health-conscious consumers spurn sugary and caffeinated beverages. Rooibos, like green tea, contains antioxidants that boost the immune system, calcium and fluoride. The drink constitutes about 10 percent of the herbal tea market and 1 percent of a global tea market that has an estimated value of $23 billion, according to the South African Rooibos Council.
Rooibos Tea is on the rise
Lebanese Food Comes to Forest Hills, Queens: Wafa’s Opens
April 18, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Wafa, the owner and cook has been cooking lebanese food for a long time. Now, people are catching on to the delectable vegetables being prepared.
Lebanese Shop, Wafa’s in Queens
May 19th, Stand up for Food Revolution Day: Get Involved and Make a Difference
April 18, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Food Revolution Day on 19 May is a chance for people who love food to come together to share information, talents and resources; to pass on their knowledge and highlight the world’s food issues. All around the globe, people will work together to make a difference. Food Revolution Day is about connecting with your community through events at schools, restaurants, local businesses, dinner parties and farmers’ markets. We want to inspire change in people’s food habits and to promote the mission for better food and education for everyone.
Join in and Make a difference in our food ecosystem, May 19th 2012
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.
My Alumni, University at Buffalo Students launch Restaurant IPAD POS System
April 17, 2012 by Leave a Comment
The days of waiters and waitresses scribbling down orders on scraps of paper may soon be coming to an end. There’s now an app for that. It’s the work of two former servers who ditched waiting tables for entrepreneurship.
The two former servers have launched a company around their app known as Refulgent Software. In January, the business was accepted into the University at Buffalo’s business incubator. As former UB students, O’Leary and Khan say running Refulgent out of an office in the incubator lends legitimacy to their business. They’re also able to tap consultants and professional advisers in making decisions about Refulgent’s future. The company has grow steadily in its one year of existence and now employs five people. Ambur is available on the iTunes App Store.
New IPAD restaurant POS from UB alumni
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.
The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf opens their 4th New York City location in the Upper East Side
April 17, 2012 by Leave a Comment
This Los Angeles chain opens their newest location with a custom coffee and tea cellar that has over 100 tea and coffee blends to choose from.
The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf on the Upper East Side is located on East 83rd Street and 3rd Avenue
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
MIT New York City Enterprise Forum Presents Cloud Computing, April 18th
April 16, 2012 by Leave a Comment
IDC predicts that spending on hardware, software and services in cloud computing systems alone will be $60 billion in 2012. The growth rate in the cloud sector is four and a half times that of the IT industry overall. Cloud computing is a compelling option for many small and mid-sized businesses, as well as larger enterprises, as it offers low cost of entry and ownership and faster time to market compared to traditional on-premise business software and servers.
MIT NYC Enterprise Forum presents Cloud Computing Event, April 18th.
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