Two years into this journey as a restaurant owner and I keep encountering things which I never even considered when starting out. We recently accepted a counterfeit U.S. $100 bill (pictured above). When I found it in the cash envelopes the next morning I…

Yesterday was the slowest day in Flying Banzini history. In yesterday’s blog, I mentioned that I was certain that it would be slow but… phew… Monday plus time change plus light snow equals hibernation for Ottawa humans. Ottawans really hate snow. Hailing from Saskatchewan,…

Every time I think I am seeing a trend I am quickly humbled to see that it’s not a trend. Last year, in the week following the time November time change business was VERY slow. I thought, Aha! I will remember this next year….

Before I say anything I want to be completely clear on a couple of things: (1) I don’t know the owners of Juniper. As the owner of a restaurant with our share of struggles, I am very empathic to the feelings that the owners…

    Long time, no blog. Sheesh it feels like I have taken a week off but when I look at the date I realize it’s been a month.   My bad.   Some significant changes took effect yesterday.   First, the new cheesecake…