Our first patio diners of 2014! Yay! Sadly, I am 30 days away from extending the liquor license to the patio. This is my fault, I missed out on some forms that must now be sorted out. I had the poster up for 30…

The Flying Banzini is built for speed. My vision has always been great food, served fast. To do this, we spend our time in preparation. The ingredients are made in house. This takes a lot of time. But, once the sandwich line and pizza…

I have set aside time this coming month to learn about franchising, concoct a rough plan, and – most importantly – decide if this is something that I want to pursue. I never planned to franchise. It has never been part of my future…

I do not know how anyone can navigate through the morass of paper work and forms that are required of small business without making errors or missing things along the way. And… I have now missed something along the way. It looks like this…

Seeing more and more shorts. Yay! Eventually this long, cold spell will leave and the ball of fire will again burn in the sky to make us all warm. I try to make The Flying Banzini all about customer service. If there is something…

New placemats have arrived. One side still features my life’s credo: “Learn, laugh, smile, love, cry, and dream. Care deeply. Don’t hate. Mostly, though, laugh. Share the passion of life’s grand adventure.” The other side features more vignettes in the remarkable history of Famiglia…

It’s easy to get focused on all the hard parts of being a restaurant owner. It’s a lot of work. And, a fair amount of stress. I still have to count pennies to reassure myself that there is enough money in the bank every…

Like a child, I went into this whole adventure blithely unaware of all the things that come with owning a business. Now that I am in it, I see a lot of things that I did not see before — in every business that…