Five Types of Loyalty Programs: Which is Right For You?
Loyalty schemes are popular with customers and popular, at least in theory, with businesses large and small.
Customers like them if the rewards are generous, easy to understand, and accumulate quickly.
Restaurants, cafes, clubs and hotels like them because they can attract new customers, increase the spend of existing customers, help prevent customer defection and enable you to build a database.
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That Time Of Year Again!
A new Tax Foundation Fiscal Fact shows that nearly half of U.S. states tax job providers at a higher rate than any other country in the developed world. Counting the federal rate alone, the U.S. has the world’s highest corporate tax rate, but including average sub-national rates (federal plus state in the U.S.), Japan edges out the U.S. for the highest-tax location.
This study breaks the tax down by state, adding each state’s corporate tax rate to the federal corporate tax rate. The results show that 24 states impose, when combined with the federal rate, a higher corporate tax rate than in any other nation. In fact:
- 24 states have a combined corporate tax rate higher than top-ranked Japan.
- 32 states have a combined corporate tax rate higher than third-ranked Germany.
- 46 states have a combined corporate tax rate higher than fourth-ranked Canada.
- All 50 states have a combined corporate tax rate higher than fifth-ranked France.
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I Love It When Seth Speaks Restaurant!
Seth makes two huge points we have been making for some time now - and we add another one!
- Don’t create bad tables!
- Treat different people differently.
- Have a better strategy for communicating to your guests other than lying.
Popularity: 36% [?]
Building Better Restaurants Named To “The Top 50 Blogs For Startups To Watch In 2008″
If you have noticed the new badge on the right hand column, we were recently named to ” The Top 50 Blogs For Startups To Watch In 2008″ by Evan Carmichael. We are definately honored to be in such good company. Click on the badge to see the entire list.
EvanCarmichael.com is the Internet’s #1 resource for small business motivation and strategies. With over 260,000 monthly visitors, 1,700 contributing authors, and 42,000 pages of content no website shares more profiles of famous entrepreneurs and inspires more small business owners than EvanCarmichael.com.
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Lu Schildmeyer Joins RCS To Lead Design Services
Before designing over 450 restaurants and over 1,200 food service facilities over the last 22 years, Lu’s career in Hospitality Design began in 1980 at Western International Hotels (now known as Westin Hotels), where he was a staff Interior Designer for four years. This after graduating from the very highly rated College of Architecture at Arizona State University in 1979, with a BDS Bachelor of Design Science in Interior Architecture and Design. Lu has also taken graduate courses in Lighting Design.
Popularity: 36% [?]
