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11 December 2017 at 15 : 28 PM
The Winds of Change
■ By CONSTANTINE N. KOLITSAS, Consultant CHANGE is a constant in nature and in life. And the question is never whether change is good or bad, but how effective we are in adapting to change. This is as true in business as it is in any other discipline or field. And the restaurant business is no different. Currently there is a Category Four ...
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11 December 2017 at 15 : 06 PM
Chicago News – December 2017
PERSONAL THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS: Why Some Sellers are Reluctant to Pay Commission THERE are so many stories to share with you but the space is limited. Let me just say that not ALL sellers are reluctant to pay commission. In our experience, sophisticated sellers and successful restaurateurs never question the need to pay commission. It is ...
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11 December 2017 at 15 : 25 PM
Sexual Harassment and Political Revelations
THE American public is in shock over the countless recent revelations by women alleging they were sexually harassed by politicians, actors, journalists, and businessmen. These stories bring to light a very grave social issue that affects not only the U.S., and which cannot go overlooked here. The most notorious case involves Alabama’s Republican U.S. ...
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11 December 2017 at 15 : 54 PM
Is This “the Voice of Christ”?
IN our November issue, we published a piece entitled “Opulent Archbishop” in the column “Happenings,” noting a “nice” statement written by Archbishop Demetrios in his message to the faithful regarding the Archdiocese’s financial situation: “…keeping in mind that we are the voice of Christ...” We added that this means that “we do as we ...
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11 December 2017 at 15 : 19 PM
Restaurant Sales – December 2017
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11 December 2017 at 15 : 02 PM
Είναι η… «φωνή του Χριστού»;
ΣΤΗ στήλη «Γεγονότα» στο τεύχος Νοεμβρίου, με τίτλο «Αρχιεπίσκοπος Πολυτελείας», σημείωσα το «ωραίο» γραφέν από τον Αρχιεπίσκοπο κ. Δημήτριο στο περί των οικονομικών της Αρχιεπισκοπής μήνυμά του ...
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11 December 2017 at 15 : 07 PM
The Orthodox Observer
THE Archdiocese of America’s official publication was a purely religious periodical that ran without ads up until 1975. Following the decisions of the Clergy-Laity Congress of 1974 regarding the autonomy of our Church and the use of English in the Divine Liturgy, the two Greek-American daily newspapers of that era, The National Herald and Atlantis, ...
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10 November 2017 at 13 : 10 PM
Restaurant Sales – November 2017
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10 November 2017 at 12 : 08 PM
Κινδυνεύει η Δημοκρατία;
Η αγωγή του υπουργού Εξωτερικών Νίκου Κοτζιά κατά της Athens Review of Books ■ Του καθηγητή ΓΕΩΡΓΙΟΥ Β. ΔΕΡΤΙΛΗ* Ο ΥΠΟΥΡΓΟΣ Εξωτερικών Νίκος Κοτζιάς με αγωγή του κατά ενός περιοδικού ...
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10 November 2017 at 12 : 34 PM
The first Greek immigrants
THE first Greek known to have been to what is now the United States was Don Theodoro, a sailor who landed on Florida with the Narváez expedition in 1528. He died during the expedition, as did most of his companions. In 1592, Greek captain Juan de Fuca (Ioannis Fokas or Apostolos Valerianos) sailed up the Pacific coast under the Spanish flag, in search ...
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