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Profit-Boosting: Integrating a Indoor soft small area in Your Restaurant
Have you ever gone to a restaurant with a fun kid play area? It only has the power to make eating out a lot more enjoyable for everyone. Amirplay believes that providing a soft play area inside your restaurant will bring you additional revenue. Here we discuss the reason why this is a wonderful idea. How to Get Paid More with a Play Area Having a dedicated play area at your restaurant can create more opportunities for you to make money.
Don’t count your TOD chickens before they hatch - Tony Blake
Light tail and transit-oriented development (TOD) might create more efficient land-use patterns and create a balanced set of transportation choices where automobiles exist alongside other options, if TOD with light rail is well designed and deployed, but the jury is yet to be instructed in that trial. A look at existing projects that claim transit orientation reveals most have fallen short.
Don’t let emotions drive our mass-transit future – Tony Blake | News & Observer
Our community is in a debate over the escalating costs of the Durham-Orange Light Rail Transit and whether this project makes sense for Orange County. The recent column by Molly DeMarco confuses the debate with dated information and emotional hyperbole about those who are asking rational and important questions.For the record, the Orange County section of the light-rail line serves a tiny three-mile segment along N.C. 54 toward the UNC campus.
Tell Me the Talent-acquisition Metrics You Invented (Even the Bad Ones)
As Jessie Garcia and I were prepping for our leadership workshop at the Spring ERE Conference in San Diego on April 18, we had a spirited discussion around the “best metrics for influencing your C-suite.” To say we are both metrics-driven is a bit of an understatement (you might say we are metrics freaks). Jesse wrote a thought-provoking piece using a framework of 1) labor correlations, 2) service excellence & quality, 3) cycle time, 4) conversions (“batting average”), and 5) brand & retention.
County needs to pursue transit that makes sense for all – Tony Blake | News & Observer
Our community is in a debate over escalating costs of the Durham-Orange Light Rail Transit project and whether this plan makes sense for Orange County.
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