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I have often wondered why breakfast-joints, many closing at 3:00 p.m. don't take advantage of the real estate they are paying for and lease out the space to a creative chef with the...

Avoiding these red flags will reduce your risk level.

Bank will be looking at how a business has run operations in the past two years.

The last thing you want is to ruin your perfect pie or your savory stuffing by bouncing it around in your car, truck, or mini-van. Fortunately, I bring solutions to this problem....

The presumption of non-assignability and non-transferability can lead to costly copyright infringement claims if you don’t plan ahead.

Minding our manners and acting like ladies or gentlemen can go a long way toward avoiding legal liabilities at times.

Where would you most likely be at 5.30 AM? Hopefully sleeping. Not United States scientist Carol Greider. She’s an early riser. So when the Nobel committee called her at 5.30 AM to tell...

After several passengers complained of the suspicious behavior, six Muslim Imams were escorted off of the plane and were detained for questioning. What followed was an interesting soap opera of events that would...

It may seem strange, but bad economic times can actually improve your health.

The next step in this process involves two key activities: * Understanding What Drives your Economic Engine, and * Having a clear Vision of what you aspire for your company to be in...

Smallbiztechnology.com has teamed up with Small Business Trends to bring you a listing of interesting small business events, both real-world and online. Look out for it every two weeks.

There's got to be a better way. I sat down with my GPS and some mapping software and took a closer, harder look at the paved world between my house and my cabin....

It is also an opportune time to evaluate your staff and the standards of service you offer. With the current availability of professionals looking for work, it is easy and relatively reasonable to...

Catering can be one of the most enjoyable and profitable aspects of any food operation. And, a catering company, or division of your restaurant, does not need to be a huge, flamboyant facility...

Our catering department was born and one year later we had expanded our catering, bought another facility and catered a Super Bowl party at Sullivan's home where Dan Rather was the guest. Catering...

With large credit card default rates, increasing commercial real estate foreclosures, and continuing high rates of residential mortgage loans in default, it may be another year or more before banks are ready to...

No one wants to be the target of the organized plaintiff's bar. Yet sometimes a few bad bananas spoil everything for the whole bunch....

Although the 2009 hurricane season has been relatively quiet, small businesses and home-owners alike have faced their fair share of disasters this year - floods in the mid-west, wild fires in California, an...

While driving or walking down any street in America, we all notice restaurant signs. They come in all shapes and sizes. But the best sign I have seen in some time has popped...