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10 October 2017 at 09 : 55 AM
Καιρός για ένα συνετό διάδοχο
Το θέμα αντικατάστασης του αρχιεπισκόπου Δημητρίου συζητήθηκε τον περασμένο μήνα στην Κωνσταντινούπολη σε συνδυασμό με την κρίση που ξέσπασε μετά την απόφαση του Πατριαρχείου για την πλήρωση ...
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11 September 2017 at 09 : 28 AM
Cleanliness is Next to Godliness
■ By CONSTANTINE N. KOLITSAS, Consultant HOW important is a clean establishment to your efforts to grow or, at the least, retain business? Food is important – you have to have a menu that has food that people want, and the food has to taste good. Speed of Service is important – people have limited time and food is not always a leisurely ...
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11 September 2017 at 09 : 36 AM
Immigrants with… Education… Money and… Fluency in English!!
■ By By P.S. MAKRIAS PRESIDENT Trump enthusiastically adopted a proposal by two Republican senators to lower the number of legal immigrants in the United States by 50 percent, in addition to the crackdown he launched against illegal immigrants; namely, everyone who enters the country from its southern borders without a visa or who enters with ...
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3 August 2017 at 15 : 57 PM
Don’t Let Fast Casual Eat Your Lunch
■ By CONSTANTINE N. KOLITSAS, Consultant WHETHER you’re the manager of a diner, luncheonette, casual-dining or tablecloth restaurant, you have competition that’s eating your lunch, literally and figuratively. The rise of fast casual restaurants—fast food restaurants serving up higher-quality fare—has taken a bite off of everyone’s ...
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15 July 2017 at 18 : 09 PM
From Menu to Table
■ By CONSTANTINE N. KOLITSAS, Consultant Re-engineering and implementing menu changes is serious business. It’s not just a matter of seeing something on another restaurant’s menu and adding it to your own. That’s the easy way – and the way to eventually kill your food cost, confuse your customers, and get lost in the wider ...
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14 June 2017 at 17 : 23 PM
Curing Organizational Cancer
Just as a cancer in a human destroys its host from within, so too does a cancer in an organization. The difference is that a cancer in an organization is more readily cured. Every organization has them – negative employees that infect others around them. And that negativity can eventually destroy an organization completely. Restaurants have them ...
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11 May 2017 at 00 : 28 AM
Manage Your Perception
It may be cliché, but it’s true nonetheless: Perception is reality. You may be the most earnest, selfless, trustworthy, hardworking, well-intentioned person on the planet, but if you give the impression of being in it for yourself, then that becomes your truth. Like it or not. After all, no one has a window into your thoughts, so it’s your outward ...
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13 April 2017 at 20 : 58 PM
Half a Century After the Junta
In this issue, readers may peruse a captivating and informative excerpt from the threevolume set of memoirs written by the now ailing former king of Greece, published last year by the Lambrakis Press Group. It relates to Constantine’s stance against the junta, which sent tanks onto the streets of Athens on April 21st, 1967, violating the constitution and ...
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13 April 2017 at 20 : 51 PM
Journalists and Politicians
The United States Constitution clearly states that Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech. It is one of the most treasured guarantees regarding the protection of journalists and the press. The U.S. media has written glorious chapters in the annals of history regarding keeping government authority in check by publishing information that ...
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13 April 2017 at 19 : 28 PM
Change, and Cheese
No one likes change. We’re creatures of habit, and, given our druthers, we will always elect to keep things as they are. After all, it’s much easier to do what you know and what you’ve been doing for years or even decades. Yet change is one thing in life that is constant. And to sit back and let life pass you by without changing or adapting to ...
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