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My Drinks Company Folded. But That Doesn’t Make It a Failure.

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After launching and then closing Proteau just three years after it hit the market, John deBary has come to realize that sales aren’t the only way to measure success Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about failure. In 2008 I began bartending at Please Don’t Tell. In 2017 I was at an inflection point in my career.

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How Coronavirus is Impacting Restaurants

Aaron Allen & Associates

March 18, 2020 Subway Reduces Franchisee Royalties by Half Expecting at least two months of steep sales declines, Subway — the largest fast food chain measured by number of units — reduces royalties and ad funding by 50% for its franchisees, in addition to offering to support operators with rent abatement, reduction, and deferral.

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‘The Community Still Makes Me Feel We All Belong to Each Other’

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You’re harming your own community , the argument goes, as if a building protected by insurance is a community. Ruhel Islam, a Bangladeshi immigrant, opened his Minneapolis restaurant Gandhi Mahal in 2008. To him, that was the point of a space like this — to nourish and support the community, and to bring people together.

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Eric Rivera Is Playing the Game 

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In the late aughts, Rivera ran his own mortgage insurance and financial services business when the Great Recession hit. Rivera recalls being at Costco picking up office supplies in 2008 when he got a call from an employee; they wanted him back in the office immediately. He was forced to shift primarily to insurance. We’re done.

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How Coronavirus is Impacting Restaurants

Aaron Allen & Associates

March 18, 2020 Subway Reduces Franchisee Royalties by Half Expecting at least two months of steep sales declines, Subway reduces royalties and ad funding by 50% for its franchisees, in addition to offering to support operators with rent abatement, reduction, and deferral. Ignoring macro risks is riskier than ever. March 19, 2020.

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How to Cook a Direwolf

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It was April 2017, a seventh season of the show would air in a couple of months, and a friend had come to Chicago to attend this dinner with me, not because we loved Game of Thrones — neither of us had watched for years at that point — but because the idea of a fannish dinner was exciting. This version was dyed with squid ink.)

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How Both Alinea and Tock Are Thriving Through the Pandemic

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How much money can we afford out of our capital fund to give to our employees, to bridge them to the point where they get unemployment? Meanwhile Tock, a reservations platform that should be in deep trouble as bookings for dine-in experiences go to zero, just raised $10 million. Nick Kokonas is an owner of both operations. Clair Supper Club.