By: Matt Kramer, Wine Spectator Allow me to be blunt: Restaurant wine lists are tricky, even treacherous. Only rarely can you describe a restaurant wine list as either instructive or intuitive. Now, maybe such a list is impossible. Wine and its inherent complexities—grape variety, site, producer, vintage, winemaking technique—may simply [...]
By: Meredith Rizzo, NPR So far this year, retail chains have announced some heavy cuts. J.C. Penney said it would close 33 stores. Macy's said it would lay off 2,500 workers. Sears will close its flagship Chicago store in April. That's creating a glut of excess space. But that's just one of [...]
By: Howard A. Tullman, Inc. Think starting a business is stressful? Try shutting one down. If you think it’s hard to get a new business off the ground, try shutting a few down. That’s serious stress. If there’s a lonelier and more depressing spot for an entrepreneur to be in, [...]
By: Jennifer Grazel, LinkedIn Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are considered engines for economic growth, and with good reason. They contribute $5.5 trillion in annual revenue in North America, according to Dun & Bradstreet. They’re usually eager to grow their companies, and are always looking for new ways to raise the [...]
By: Dave Kerpen, Inc. The difference between success and failure is a great team. When I first became an entrepreneur, in the spring of 2002, I was a consultant working for myself. As Dave Kerpen Strategic Consulting, I could make my own hours, determine my own success, and avoid answering to [...]
By: Emily Elyse Miller, Société Perrier Get your passports ready, because we are about to head around the world, one bar at a time — from Melbourne to Hong Kong, Copenhagen to Montreal to, of course, good ol’ New York. We spoke to some of the most talented mixologists and bartenders around the [...]
By: Ted Cox, DNAinfo Chicago CITY HALL — The City Council is considering a resolution calling for a $10.10-an-hour minimum wage, after passing another measure calling for a $10.65 minimum wage last week. The Progressive Reform Caucus boasted last week of passing a resolution sponsored by Ald. John Arena (45th) and supporting Gov. [...]
By: Dave Jamieson, Huffington Post WASHINGTON -- With the Senate planning to take up a bill next month that would raise the minimum wage, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) said Wednesday that he and most of his fellow Democrats would be unwilling to strip out a raise to the "tipped" minimum [...]
By: Design Restaurants 2013 was the year that the humble burger got a hipster makeover and every trendy restaurants was suddenly adding gourmet buns and patties to their menus. Top end joints arrived such as Five Guys and Shake Shack and had punters queuing up to sample its guerkins as [...]
By: Jason Daley, Entrepreneur When Bill Owens held the inaugural meeting of the American Distilling Institute in 2003, 86 people showed up, most of them old faces from the tiny world of craft distilling. For the organization's 10th annual conference in April, more than 900 folks packed the Sheraton in [...]
