Steve Schussler and Dave Anderson go way back. Anderson was the first investor in Schussler’s Rainforest Café chain, in fact. But they’d never worked together. We associate Anderson with barbecue,
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On December 16, the Red Cow and Red Rabbit group of restaurants offered a flash sale on gift cards, a $30 bonus for every $100 spent. That was up from
It took the better part of a year, but WCCO Radio finally has hired Dave Lee’s morning drive replacement. Lee retired at the end of April and Vineeta Sawkar’s hire
Every fall the editors of TCB sit down around a table for several hours and shout names at each other. It’s usually polite, but now and then tempers flare. Why?
Michael Osterholm directs the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) at the University of Minnesota. We used to know him for annual public radio appearances that reminded us
When International Airlines Group (Aer Lingus, British Airways, Iberia) trumpeted last week that it planned to return to North America in a big way next summer, operating roughly the same
Back in the day, the monthly release of local radio ratings was big news in a lot of American cities, including Minneapolis/St. Paul, but with the loss of media writing
Successful businesses are eminently salable at a multiple of revenue or profits; restaurants are a notable exception. Most go up for sale when an owner or founding chef departs. Unproven
Let’s be frank: No one understands what’s happening in the labor markets right now. It’s unnerving to hear experts and pseudo-experts on CNBC and elsewhere projecting authority while uttering disconnected
“I go to Acapulco four or five times a year to decompress and mountain bike. Riding [in rural areas] past people living in subsistence housing gives me perspective on my
“Call me,” the text read. “People need to understand what’s happening down here.” It was summer 2020, and all of Minneapolis was on the razor’s edge. I didn’t call. Then
It’s not clear what Donald Trump’s Federal Transit Administration knew about Southwest Light Rail’s construction trajectory when it required the Met Council to double the project’s contingency budget from $203
If you want to understand why Southwest Light Rail is likely delayed several years beyond its last anticipated opening date, make a visit to Park Siding, an obscure park on
Suddenly, Minnesotans are flying again. In May, passenger boardings at MSP Airport grew to 62 percent of pre-pandemic levels, according to the Metropolitan Airports Commission. Here's what you missed in
Over the next two months, large employers will finish formulating, communicating, and executing plans for post-Covid return to work. For downtown Minneapolis—currently 70 percent below its normal level of worker
The Chambers Hotel at 9th and Hennepin in Minneapolis has reopened and rebranded following an ownership change in winter. The hotel is now under its third owner, New York-based MCR,
TCB already publishes a column called “Open Letter,” so this is not an open letter, but perhaps consider it an email. Marked urgent. It is a message to Minneapolis’ corporate
A growing sense in Congress that insufficient controls and unintended consequences are making a mockery of its efforts to soften the pandemic’s economic blows may doom desires to provide additional