Restaurant economy

By Robin Garr LouisvilleHotBytes.com The pandemic hasn’t been kind to small businesses, and that certainly includes local restaurants and food-service ventures. Just ask Chase Barmore, who had spent more than nine years building his Lifebar smoothie bar concept. Barmore’s healthy, hand-crafted all-organic smoothies had earned Life Bar deserved popularity through sales in three regional Rainbow … Continue reading Struggling restaurants fight for federal fund boost →

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Worried about history repeating itself as we face inflation and recession in the restaurant economy? Here are a few suggestions that we learned in the last Great Recession.

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Robin Garr LouisvilleHotBytes.com Winter is coming. Will it be another bumpy ride for local restaurants? Can we do anything to help? As I see it, we’re facing an alarming trifecta of troubling problems as Pandemic Winter II draws near: • Even with widespread vaccination, we haven’t achieved herd immunity. Covid is still around, the Delta … Continue reading Shortages and Covid fear foretell another bleak winter →

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