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Category: Small Business
Total Views: 5
Word Count: 425
Date: Mar 13th 2008
1. Business Management Tips Selecting The Right Color For Your Work Uniforms
One of the things that you need to keep in mind when you are selecting your uniforms is the type of business that you are running. For example, while the idea of a crisp white shirt looks very professional, how long do you think a chef will really keep it clean?...

Category: Management
Total Views: 0
Word Count: 455
Date: Mar 6th 2008
2. Business Tips What Should Your Employees Wear Casual vs. Formal Approach
There are many factors that come into play when you are trying to decide whether you think that your business would be best suited towards a strictly formal wear approach, or a more casual wear approach....

Category: Clothing
Total Views: 0
Word Count: 465
Date: Mar 2nd 2008
3. Military Uniforms Then and Now
A look at military uniforms, their characteristics and evolution....

Category: Clothing
Total Views: 0
Word Count: 441
Date: Feb 25th 2008
4. The Evolution of Nursing Uniforms
A look at the history of nursing uniforms and how they have changed in modern times....

Category: Clothing
Total Views: 4
Word Count: 436
Date: Feb 9th 2008
5. All About Chef Uniforms Traditional and Latest Styles and Fashions
An article on the characteristics of chefs uniforms....

Category: Clothing
Total Views: 6
Word Count: 431
Date: Jan 29th 2008
6. Uniforms Control Crowds: A Look at Security and Law Enforcement
A look at security and law enforcement uniforms and their abilities to control crowds and curb violence and crime....

Category: Clothing
Total Views: 2
Word Count: 443
Date: Jan 23rd 2008
7. How to Choose Uniforms for Your Company
A look at some factors to consider before buying uniforms for your company....

Category: Clothing
Total Views: 3
Word Count: 464
Date: Jan 16th 2008
8. Are You Part of The Pack? Uniforms in The Workplace
An article that summarizes why uniforms are worn in the work place, some advantages and history....

Category: Clothing
Total Views: 5
Word Count: 615
Date: Jan 10th 2008
9. I Hate My Work Uniform
This article covers reasons why people may hate their uniform, some reasons why and how to rectify the reasons that cause a hate for the uniform....

Category: Clothing
Total Views: 2
Word Count: 521
Date: Jan 3rd 2008
10. Can Your Work Uniform Save Your Life?
An article that looks at both the symbolic and protective or functional aspects of work uniforms....

Category: Strategic Planning
Total Views: 8
Word Count: 621
Date: Dec 28th 2007
11. The 5 Step Plan for Creating a Successful Business Plan
While there are some who are easily able to do this, many business owners find themselves scratching their heads when it comes time to develop a plan....

Category: Fashion Style
Total Views: 10
Word Count: 524
Date: Dec 27th 2007
12. Do I Want My Kid In A School Uniform?
Wearing school uniforms is sometimes met with wholehearted joy or passionate hate. If it were up to the students, there would be roughly 50% who would wear the uniform and another 50% who would not. This is why it isn't up to the student....

Category: Management
Total Views: 2
Word Count: 614
Date: Dec 23rd 2007
13. How to Hire the Best Employees for Your Business
When you create a business, most likely, you'll need to hire employees. And when you hire employees, you really are taking a chance and placing your idea in the hands of another person....

Category: Careers Employment
Total Views: 0
Word Count: 434
Date: Dec 14th 2007
14. Top Tips to Finding a Job in Pittsburgh
While Pittsburgh is emerging as one of the best places to live, it is also forced to handle an increase of people looking to find a great job. This means that sometimes finding the job of your dreams in Pittsburgh can be quite complicated. However, it is not an impossible task and with some work and effort, you can find the perfect job of your dreams....

Category: Business Opportunities
Total Views: 1
Word Count: 709
Date: Dec 12th 2007
15. Building a Web Site for Your Business
Over the past 10 years, the internet has gone from being something only computer geeks use to being used by hundreds of millions of people worldwide. It is no wonder, then, that so many businesses are choosing to go online. They are doing so primarily to spread word about their business, but also to be more accessible to clients....

Category: Strategic Planning
Total Views: 7
Word Count: 647
Date: Dec 7th 2007
16. How to Start a Business
Everyone gets a great idea from time to time. Sometimes it comes at the most unexpected time. These ideas may not seem like much, especially if nothing is done with them. Chances are, you've probably had an idea to start your own business....

Category: Management
Total Views: 2
Word Count: 603
Date: Nov 27th 2007
17. 5 Ways to Increase Production in Your Business
As a businessman, you are constantly looking for ways of improving your business. You look at getting the latest technology to speed up production, hiring only the very smartest employees and trying to keep up with all the trends....

Category: Small Business
Total Views: 0
Word Count: 762
Date: Nov 20th 2007
18. Business Tips - Be Proactive About Customer Needs and Making Your Business Unique
An interesting phenomenon occurring in both large and small business is the diversification of their operation, services and products....

Category: Entertainment
Total Views: 0
Word Count: 428
Date: Nov 20th 2007
19. Thrilling Amazement in the Pittsburgh Area
If you are looking for some great entertainment and thrilling amusement parks then the Pittsburgh area is perfect for you....

Category: Small Business
Total Views: 0
Word Count: 652
Date: Nov 15th 2007
20. Business Tips - Performance Based Payment Schemes and 1 Customer = Unlimited Potential Customers
Another misconception about business operating practices is the stigma associated with performance based payment schemes. There are two schools of thought in the retail sector about performance based schemes....

Category: Web Design
Total Views: 1
Word Count: 487
Date: Nov 9th 2007
21. Should You Make Your Own Layout or Use a Premade Layout
This is a question that many people have, and is becomes even more complicated with the reduced need to know anything at all about how to actually create a layout because of the increase in the number of free profile designers available online....

Category: Web Design
Total Views: 13
Word Count: 647
Date: Nov 8th 2007
22. Web Designer Needed - Should You Choose an Amateur or a Professional
Most companies that decide to branch out into the internet discover that they need to hire someone as the web designer....

Category: Small Business
Total Views: 3
Word Count: 433
Date: Nov 2nd 2007
23. Should I Open a Business in Pittsburgh
Business owners all around the country are looking at Pittsburgh as the perfect place to open their small business, but why?...

Category: E-Business
Total Views: 3
Word Count: 615
Date: Nov 2nd 2007
24. To the Internet and Beyond
The decision over whether to take a normal brick and mortar type of business to the internet has plagued many business owners for a very long time....

Category: Home
Total Views: 3
Word Count: 460
Date: Nov 1st 2007
25. Should I Buy a Home in Pittsburgh
If you are looking for a place to buy a home there are numerous places you could look to purchase. However, what really makes Pittsburgh a great place to call home?...

Category: Home Business
Total Views: 7
Word Count: 627
Date: Nov 1st 2007
26. Small Business Trends - Moving Home Again
With many small businesses opening up each and every year there are always people who are out looking around for ways and methods that they can have their own business and work from home....

Category: Business Opportunities
Total Views: 2
Word Count: 500
Date: Oct 31st 2007
27. Running a Successful Online Store
Millions of websites exist for the sole purpose of selling things online. Making your own store that will be noticed and allow you to make money is sometimes easy, but usually lined with problems, disasters and frustrations....

Category: Networking
Total Views: 18
Word Count: 551
Date: Oct 30th 2007
28. Digital Gadgets and Your Business - Creating a Safe Haven
Most businesses lately are turning more and more towards the use of laptops, smart phones and even PDA's or Pocket PC's to help keep in touch with clients and keep the business running in tip top shape....

Category: Management
Total Views: 4
Word Count: 574
Date: Oct 30th 2007
29. Hiring Employees the Right Way
From the largest business to the smallest business, there is almost always a need to hire some employees to assist in ensuring the business runs as smoothly as possible. This means making some good and informed hiring decisions....

Category: Small Business
Total Views: 3
Word Count: 657
Date: Oct 16th 2007
30. Business Tips - The Franchise of Franchises and Don't Cut Cost Increase Value
Look around the local shopping centre, and it is almost impossible not to spot all the franchises that are popping up everywhere....

Category: Loans
Total Views: 2
Word Count: 499
Date: Oct 12th 2007
31. Can I Get a SBA Loan to Help My Business
There are numerous types of SBA loans available and many of them are designed to be quite useful and helpful however deciding upon exactly what you need and how to get it is sometimes....

Category: Arts
Total Views: 1
Word Count: 426
Date: Oct 12th 2007
32. Popular Pittsburgh Fairs - Entertainment and Enjoyment Abound
If you are looking around trying to decide what to do with your time, Pittsburgh offers plenty of options that you can explore if you are looking for a great festival or fair. From arts, to culture, to animals there are tons of fairs in the Pittsburgh area that allow you to have plenty of fun all in one area....

Category: Careers Employment
Total Views: 2
Word Count: 435
Date: Oct 11th 2007
33. How to Launch Your Music Career from MySpace
Stop and think about the thousands of musicians all across the world who are struggling to become known for their talents. What happens to most of them?...

Category: Travel
Total Views: 1
Word Count: 422
Date: Oct 9th 2007
34. Pittsburgh Tourist Attractions for Everyone
We all know most major cities and towns have some tourist attractions. The bad news is that most places are only geared towards a specific type of person, rather than gearing towards the majority....

Category: Small Business
Total Views: 1
Word Count: 654
Date: Oct 9th 2007
35. Business Trends - Go International or Go Broke and Advertising Via Social Networks
The gradual shift of business operations and activities being dominated by major corporations and companies to the hands of the small business owners has seen the increase in competition for potential clients within the national scene....

Category: Management
Total Views: 2
Word Count: 512
Date: Oct 8th 2007
36. Booming Business Survival Tactics
You have managed your own business for a while now. You have been highly successful and now suddenly you are faced with so much success that business is booming....

Category: Small Business
Total Views: 1
Word Count: 540
Date: Oct 8th 2007
37. Boosting Your Online Business Presence
Be honest, how many places do you ever really remember online? Most people remember only a fraction of the websites that they eventually visit. However, this is an awful occurrence for someone who is running a business that has an online presence....

Category: Arts
Total Views: 10
Word Count: 423
Date: Sep 7th 2007
38. Performance Arts in Pittsburgh
Looking for a great night out on the town then Pittsburgh is the best place to be. From a wide range of performance arts available in the area, you are sure to be pleased with the outcome of all of the shows and options that are available to you....

Category: Travel
Total Views: 7
Word Count: 455
Date: Sep 5th 2007
39. General Pittsburgh Travel Tips
Traveling to Pittsburgh is always a great option there are so many wonderful activities that you can do, and so much stuff that can keep you busy for any length of time you decide to go on vacation. There are some tips you can follow though to ensure that you are traveling as safely as possible....

Category: Travel
Total Views: 9
Word Count: 429
Date: Sep 3rd 2007
40. Coolest Attractions in Pittsburgh
If you are going to travel to the Pittsburgh area and want to plan the best vacation possible you may want to read this article....

Category: Corporate
Total Views: 8
Word Count: 576
Date: Sep 3rd 2007
41. Best Employee Practices Regardless of the Size of your Business
If you are running a business, you are going to have employees at some point. How you handle these employees from performance reviews, to potential promotions to even helping keep your staff as happy and productive as possible is going to determine how overall happy your employees are and how high their productivity level is....

Category: Small Business
Total Views: 8
Word Count: 662
Date: Sep 3rd 2007
42. Business Trends - Office in a Box and Cutting Cost (and Cutting Value)
The rapid uptake and saturation of technology in the 21st century has seen the growth of more small business owners. One of the major contributing reasons for this has been the globalization of business from the influence of the Internet....

Category: Clothing
Total Views: 5
Word Count: 934
Date: Jul 31st 2007
43. The Importance of Nursing Smocks in the Medical Field
Smocks are an integral part of the medical field. There are Artist smocks, utility smocks and cobbler aprons. Artist smocks comprise 65%/ 35% poly/ cotton. They are designed very gracefully with long sleeves, front and back gathered yokes, four pearl buttons and a notch lapel....

Category: Clothing
Total Views: 6
Word Count: 951
Date: Jul 28th 2007
44. Warm Up Jackets In the Medical Field
The men and women who work together in any organizations are different from one another with respect to their work, designations, etc; the only thing common in them is their Uniform. They all follow a common dress code, which of course vary for men and women. In medical organizations the dress code is always something in white or green....

Category: Gourmet
Total Views: 7
Word Count: 1043
Date: Jul 26th 2007
45. A Sweet History of Chocolate
It starts with the cacao tree, which is about as far away from a Hershey bar as you can get. It is a small evergreen tree native to the deep tropical regions of South America, ranging from far southern Mexico to the Amazon. You pick a big, green, almond-shaped melon off of this tree and split it open....

Category: Wine Spirits
Total Views: 4
Word Count: 1114
Date: Jul 10th 2007
46. The Ten-Minute Sommelier A Wine Guide
Of course, if your restaurant is serious about serving wine, you will want to have a wine expert on hand. This kind of expert is called a "sommelier", which is French for wine steward. However, for the restaurant that wants to just keep a few bottles on the menu, a basic working knowledge of wine will be enough to get a grip on the subject....

Category: Careers Employment
Total Views: 3
Word Count: 1099
Date: Jun 30th 2007
47. Seven Steps to Your New Career
What a terrible time to make life-affecting decisions the twenties are! Who to marry? How should we know, at age twenty they all look alike to us. Where to live? Well, we only know one town, the place we grew up, so how should we know if other places are better? What should we do for a career? Search us!...

Category: Customer Service
Total Views: 3
Word Count: 1129
Date: Jun 28th 2007
48. Humor in Customer Service and How It Can Help Your Business
Now, wait a minute. You are not a stage comedian or an actor. Your job is to sell something, not put on a clown act. How does humor fit into customer service? And that's exactly why this works: Everybody thinks just like the above paragraph. Because everybody thinks that way, nobody uses humor to ease a customer transaction....

Category: Business Opportunities
Total Views: 1
Word Count: 1094
Date: Jun 27th 2007
49. How to Plan Your Company's Dress Code
One of the milestones of a growing small business is the point at which you decide you need a dress code. It was all in good fun when you were just a shoestring start-up in a tiny store-front, and there was just five of you running around in jeans and polo shirts. But now you have enough staff that making them conform to a uniform standard of fashion....

Category: Customer Service
Total Views: 1
Word Count: 766
Date: Jun 26th 2007
50. How to Identify With a Customer in Your Business Industry
No matter what industry you work in, this can be applied to your line of work, especially in the hospitality industry. Nearly half the jobs held at any given time are service positions. It's the way our economy works. The vital function of helping customers get the service and goods they want is pretty much everything that keeps the wheels going round....

Category: Customer Service
Total Views: 2
Word Count: 1043
Date: Jun 22nd 2007
51. How to Deal with a Hostile Customer
Any job which involves customer service will, before long, involve a few unpleasant encounters with at least one customer who has a problem about something. There is a notable difference between customers who have an understandable complaint, and those who seem to just seem to have a personal problem....

Category: Careers Employment
Total Views: 2
Word Count: 746
Date: Jun 21st 2007
52. Entering a Culinary Arts School
They say cooking is the first art. Before mankind learned to speak, draw, or write, he learned to prepare a meal. And this art is passed down to your generation, in the form of a wide and diverse field of culinary specialties to choose from. A cooking career is limitless; it can take you anywhere, and you can explore it all of your life and never find the end of it....

Category: Business Opportunities
Total Views: 2
Word Count: 982
Date: Jun 20th 2007
53. Designing a Restaurant Menu
When you're a start-up business with a shoe-string budget, that photocopied sheet with a simple list of your dishes was enough to get by. But as your business grows and becomes more successful, the time will eventually come when somebody says, "Isn't it time we got a more professional-looking menu?"...

Category: Careers Employment
Total Views: 1
Word Count: 869
Date: Jun 19th 2007
54. Are You Brave Enough to Find Your Ideal Career?
What did you want to be when you grew up? Kids naturally do this; they try to imagine trying on different lives and decide what they want to do. They imagine very fanciful things when they are very young, and they lower their expectations until their teen age years, when they have enough schooling to realize just what hard work it will be to be an adult in a few years....

Category: Careers Employment
Total Views: 2
Word Count: 924
Date: Jun 15th 2007
55. Advice on Picking and Developing a Career
Have you wondered why it seems some people are so successful in their career and others are not? This is true, since most people who are unsuccessful in their career give up their hopes and dreams. These are the people who settle for something lower than their own capabilities would qualify them for....

Category: Careers Employment
Total Views: 3
Word Count: 902
Date: Jun 14th 2007
56. What Every Prep Chef Should Know About Cutlery
Ah, the prep chef, happily whacking away with a steady rhythm. You have no worries about how the Hollandaise sauce is going to turn out, nor how fussy those customers at table seven are. All you have to worry about is making food the right consistency before passing it off to someone else....

Category: Gourmet
Total Views: 2
Word Count: 701
Date: Jun 14th 2007
57. The Origins of Tea
Besides water, green tea is the most consumed beverage in the world. It is estimated that over one-half of the world's population drinks tea in some form. Although England and other Northern European countries share a liking for tea with the rest of the world, they don't actually call it by the same word. It is instead called "cha", the Chinese word for it....

Category: Business Opportunities
Total Views: 6
Word Count: 862
Date: Jun 13th 2007
58. Dressing Your Restaurant for Success
Marketing your restaurant is something where you tend to turn your sites to the external. You think of signs, billboards, and radio and TV advertisements. But you might want to look inside as well; your restaurant staff could be attired in such a way that it builds up brand identity....

Category: Gourmet
Total Views: 1
Word Count: 969
Date: Jun 6th 2007
59. The Ten Pet Peeve Customers of Restauranteurs
OK, we may be smiling chefs, well-mannered waiters, magnificent managers and suave sommeliers, but under our professional guise we're human beings....

Category: Business Opportunities
Total Views: 3
Word Count: 971
Date: Jun 6th 2007
60. Creative Costume and Uniform Ideas for Your Restaurant Bar or Resort Business
Everywhere we look, we see the businesses such as restaurants, bars, and casinos, that theme their uniform style to match their business' atmosphere. That's all well and good, but sometimes you might think that the uniform styles out there are a little homogenized....

Category: Gourmet
Total Views: 1
Word Count: 890
Date: Jun 4th 2007
61. Fascinating Facts About Tea For Restaurants
I still remember the best cup of tea I ever had. It was at a Mediterranean restaurant on the Las Vegas strip. After an excellent meal of falafel, hummus, baba ganouch, pita bread, and lamb, I ordered the tea and was presented with a pot of steaming water and a container of fresh, wet whole tea leaves....

Category: Gourmet
Total Views: 2
Word Count: 951
Date: Jun 3rd 2007
62. Why Local Produce is Better
Today's food buyer has choices which previous generations never dreamed of. At any given time of the year, they can go to the wholesaler and buy produce that was once only seasonally available. You can have strawberries in November and corn on the cob in February....

Category: Gourmet
Total Views: 2
Word Count: 1081
Date: Jun 1st 2007
63. A Guide to Exotic Fruits For Chefs
We will explore the fruit varieties of the world which are far removed from the usual fare. For the bold, the creative, or the daring gourmand......

Category: Weight Loss
Total Views: 2
Word Count: 1155
Date: May 30th 2007
64. The Top Ten Myths About Fat Burning
Ah, you chefs! You tempt us with your delicacies, engross us with your artistic mastery, and seduce our senses into submission. That's what you hear a lot of, isn't it? The subject of weight gain and loss seems to come up a lot whenever there's a chef in the room....

Category: Gourmet
Total Views: 2
Word Count: 1065
Date: May 30th 2007
65. A Chefs Guide to Sweeteners
The Industrialized world is obsessed with diets, and yet has the raging sweet tooth of a child. Everybody wants non-fattening food that tastes fat. And so here we are in the industrial age, working our laboratories round-the-clock to come up with a way to have the taste without the calories. This has given us a host of sort-of, one-off-from, and flat-out substitute sugars....

Category: Gourmet
Total Views: 1
Word Count: 1151
Date: May 30th 2007
66. Chef Career - A Chefs Guide to Exotic Fruits
Ah, the everyday fruits at the English-speaking table: apple, orange, banana. Tangerine, peach, strawberry. Maybe a bunch of grapes or the occasional kiwi. As anyone can see, the fruit table at the typical banquet is stuck in a rut....

Category: Gourmet
Total Views: 2
Word Count: 1070
Date: May 25th 2007
67. A Restauranteur's Eye View of Vodka
To get one thing straight off the top, there should be two ingredients in vodka: water and alcohol. Barring any flavoring ingredients, of course. And the two kinds of ingredients you can get the alcohol from are either potatoes or grain....

Category: Gourmet
Total Views: 83
Word Count: 1092
Date: May 22nd 2007
68. A Chef's Guide to Vegans
A "vegan" and a "vegetarian" are two different things. That's one thing you have to get straight. While most vegetarians simply refrain from eating anything that had a heartbeat, but still allow eggs and dairy products, vegans go one further and exclude anything related to animals in any way, shape or form....

Category: Gourmet
Total Views: 86
Word Count: 1066
Date: May 22nd 2007
69. All About Honey
The consumption of honey by humans is an anomaly; honey is the only food produced by insects which humans eat, and is one of the only two substances produced organically whose sole purpose is for food - the other is mammalian breast milk. As a result, bees are the insect most commonly domesticated by humans the world over....

Category: Careers Employment
Total Views: 85
Word Count: 873
Date: May 16th 2007
70. Police Career - How to Keep Police Stress Syndrome From Taking Over Your Life
The law enforcement profession is legendary for its high stress. It is repeatedly in the top ten of most stressful jobs. And there's nothing like police work to make a candidate for 'bringing your work home with you', because you naturally encounter things on the job that take some processing in the off hours to deal with....

Category: Careers Employment
Total Views: 72
Word Count: 782
Date: May 16th 2007
71. Police Career - Linux Computer Systems in Law Enforcement
Law enforcement recently has been following the general tide of government and public service groundswell by seeking computing solutions in the Linux direction. Particularly in law enforcement, their needs match well with open source software....

Category: Corporate
Total Views: 74
Word Count: 938
Date: May 15th 2007
72. A Corporate Security Guide to Software Piracy
Almost from the first computer software commercially sold, software pirates have flourished. The international trade in pirated software mirrors criminal activities of other kinds such as drug trafficking - it has its own subculture, jargon, and connections....

Category: Wine Spirits
Total Views: 4
Word Count: 1164
Date: May 15th 2007
73. Restaurant Guide - Making Your Own Wine
One of the things that can put your restaurant on the map is serving your own in-house wine. Perhaps with some skill, you can compete with a name label. But even if your wine-making skills don't put you in ranks with the top French vineyards, the point is that you make your own house wine!...

Category: Careers Employment
Total Views: 76
Word Count: 1241
Date: May 15th 2007
74. Casino Career A Reference Guide
A little guide to the hospitality industry's most flashy little subculture. Casinos have had their own little universe of jargon since their first origins. Use this as a clip 'n' save reference....

Category: Careers Employment
Total Views: 45
Word Count: 926
Date: May 11th 2007
75. Hospitality Management Career - 10 Ways to be a Bad Hospitality Boss
With the low margins in the hospitality industry, you need every edge you can get. You've probably seen many articles on how to spot the bad employees. But what about warning signs that your own performance is lagging?...

Category: Gourmet
Total Views: 8
Word Count: 1060
Date: May 11th 2007
76. Commonly Used Spices A Chef's Spice Guide
This guide is a quick look-up table for the commonly-used spices. Oregano - A peculiar leafy green herb, in that it is one of the few which is more potent dried than fresh. Taste like a cross between mint and lemongrass....

Category: Gourmet
Total Views: 4
Word Count: 1009
Date: May 9th 2007
77. A Unique Chefs Spice Reference
This guide is a quick look-up table for the commonly-used spices. Fenugreek - This is native to India and southern Europe. The part used is the hard, yellow-brown seeds that come from the plant's pods....

Category: Careers Employment
Total Views: 5
Word Count: 1105
Date: May 9th 2007
78. Refined Field Interrogation Techniques For Security Careers
If you are already familiar with the Reid technique and some of the standard methods of obtaining information from an uncooperative subject, here are some extra tips. Be warned up front: coercion in any form is still illegal and immoral....

Category: Careers Employment
Total Views: 4
Word Count: 863
Date: May 8th 2007
79. Digital Music Piracy A Case Study For Law Enforcerment Careers
Amidst all the huge media press devoted to the subject of the recording industry's difficulty in protecting their interest in the new digital age, one might wonder - who are these people who download music? What is their motivation?...

Category: Gourmet
Total Views: 6
Word Count: 948
Date: May 8th 2007
80. A Chef's Spice Reference
This guide is a quick look-up table for the commonly-used spices. Allspice - Comes from the unripe berry of the Pimienta dioica tree. It has a flavor that is similar to cinnamon, pepper, cloves, and nutmeg, and so it gets its name from the effect of combining those flavors....

Category: Gourmet
Total Views: 2
Word Count: 761
Date: May 8th 2007
81. A Pondering About Absinthe for Bartenders
Absinthe is one of those historic fascinations that never quite go away. We were just on the verge of letting absinthe settle into the dustbin of history when two events happened....

Category: Careers Employment
Total Views: 3
Word Count: 1173
Date: May 4th 2007
82. Field Interrogation Methods For Law Enforcement Career - A Beginner's Guide
The thing you have to be good with in field interrogation is psychology, and particularly empathy. Methods involving coercion and extreme stress are not admissible in court for a reason - they don't work, besides being unethical. A skilled interrogator would never think to stooping to unethical means of obtaining information, and wouldn't need to anyway....

Category: Legal Information
Total Views: 82
Word Count: 1060
Date: May 4th 2007
83. Media Piracy and Law Enforcement
Once upon a time, music played for free on the radio. And you could record a cassette if you wanted to, and you could listen to it as many times as you wanted to, and nobody thought you were a pirate if you shared it with your friends....

Category: Technology
Total Views: 68
Word Count: 958
Date: May 4th 2007
84. Why Perfect Surveillance isn't Perfect Law Enforcement
Technology helps in many areas in police work. We have everything plugged in on the national Amber Alert system, which has proven its worth. We have databases everywhere in law enforcement, tracking known offenders of every stripe....

Category: Careers Employment
Total Views: 2
Word Count: 918
Date: May 4th 2007
85. Security Career The Impact of Education on Crime
If you work in law enforcement, you're certain to eventually be confronted by one big common denominator in the criminal element: a lack of education. Beyond the mere expectations of having a formal college education suitable to build a career with, most of the criminal class is without even the basic high school diploma, and quite a few more are without even the basics of grade school....

Category: Careers Employment
Total Views: 7
Word Count: 917
Date: May 2nd 2007
86. Security Careers - a Primer
Private security work makes for a good, stable job with low overhead requirements. You can do this fresh out of high school, and many college students work their way through their higher education. But it's not for everyone....

Category: Careers Employment
Total Views: 2
Word Count: 1044
Date: May 2nd 2007
87. Law Enforcement Career Inside the Meth Epidemic - What Every Police Officer Should Know
Ask almost any law enforcement officer what drug is the most troublesome for their job, and they'll most likely respond methamphetamine. Marijuana, cocaine, and heroin all have to be grown, and for the most part are imported....

Category: Business Opportunities
Total Views: 11
Word Count: 865
Date: May 2nd 2007
88. Niche Marketing in the Hospitality Industry
Welcome to our glorious capitalist society, where every entrepreneur may stay busy at whatever industry they like for as long as they wish to be industrious. Just look at those busy wheels of the marketplace turn, will you!...

Category: Careers Employment
Total Views: 2
Word Count: 831
Date: May 1st 2007
89. Law Enforcement Career - Introduction to Gangs
Street gangs are defined as a group of individuals, usually youth, banded together under a common identity for the purpose of carrying out persistent illegal activity. This activity may revolve around dealing narcotics, robbery, pimping, burglary, racketeering, extortion, vandalism, and the hostile defense of their turf from other gangs....

Category: Careers Employment
Total Views: 3
Word Count: 1023
Date: Apr 27th 2007
90. Hotel Security Career - Tales From the Field
For those of you thinking of taking up a career in security work, here's a little slice of life from my own experience: I worked security jobs as my first career out of high school. This enabled me to work my way through higher education and keep an income stream coming....

Category: Health
Total Views: 3
Word Count: 816
Date: Apr 26th 2007
91. The Health Problems of Vegetarians
Health practitioners are becoming increasingly alarmed at the growing problem of vegetarians and vegans who practice a restricted diet only to end up with a spectrum of malnutrition disorders....

Category: Health
Total Views: 3
Word Count: 1296
Date: Apr 26th 2007
92. Does the Brain Atrophy Like a Muscle?
We aren't so much talking about the physical structure of the brain itself - or are we? Medical and psychological research recently has pointed to the emerging idea that the more you exercise your brain, the better it will work in your old age and the more resistant you will be to Alzheimer's, dementia, and general cognitive impairments....

Category: Medicine
Total Views: 10
Word Count: 947
Date: Apr 26th 2007
93. The History of Antibiotics
At sometime or another, almost every physician has prescribed an antibiotic. Their uses range from treatments of lacerations to infections to pneumonia. The controversy over their usage possibly ensures that they may not be used much longer....

Category: Medicine
Total Views: 9
Word Count: 850
Date: Apr 26th 2007
94. Medicine in Medieval Times
Oh, how fortunate the medical field is with its modern conveniences. You have the Internet to share knowledge on, digital imaging equipment to render your CT scans, and every gadget and gizmo up to and including "the machine that goes bing!"...

Category: Health
Total Views: 3
Word Count: 1076
Date: Apr 24th 2007
95. The Impact of Mosquitoes on World Health
In the medical field, mosquitoes are perhaps the greatest scourge of any insect pest. In much of the world, mosquitoes are the number-one public health menace, it being estimated that they transmit disease to more than 69 million people every year....

Category: Health
Total Views: 2
Word Count: 1056
Date: Apr 20th 2007
96. A Medical Professional Guide to Fascinating Mosquito Facts
With all of the diseases that mosquitoes transmit, it's medical science against the mosquitoes, and we have to fight hard just to stay even. Herein, a potpourri of facts about one of nature's most notorious blood-sucking pests....

Category: Business Opportunities
Total Views: 13
Word Count: 1024
Date: Apr 13th 2007
97. Linux The New Choice for the Hospitality POS
In the beginning, there was Unix. The original form of what we now call a computer operating system was originally a Unix machine, first running on a PDP 11/20 in 1970....

Category: Management
Total Views: 5
Word Count: 995
Date: Apr 12th 2007
98. How to Make Your Hospitality Customers Day
Working in the service industry, it's all about the customer relations. Who among us does not love our wonderful customers? Now, how can we ever have enough ways to show our customers just how special they are?...

Category: Careers Employment
Total Views: 6
Word Count: 1055
Date: Apr 11th 2007
99. Starting a Hospitality Career
To start out on a realistic note, working as a professional in the hospitality industry is no easy living. You are going to work long hours around the clock. You will most likely work weekends and holidays, because that's the busiest times....

Category: Management
Total Views: 3
Word Count: 1035
Date: Apr 11th 2007
100. Arcades for Restaurants and Hotels
Just about any hospitality business has a few coin-op machines lying around. These are not gambling devices I'm talking about (which is a whole other story), but electronic gaming devices, commonly known as video games. While their inclusion isn't the main feature of your venue, you'll notice a few of them lurking in some corner of nearly every kind of hospitality business....

Category: Management
Total Views: 2
Word Count: 1152
Date: Apr 10th 2007
101. Get Your Restaurant Business To Give Great Hospitality Service
Your restaurant can be in only so good a location, and your food can only be so good. But is there any limit to how great your service can be? This is the people factor, and it will set you apart from the rest of the pack like no other....

Category: Business Opportunities
Total Views: 4
Word Count: 913
Date: Apr 10th 2007
102. OSHA and Your Restaurant Safety
OSHA is the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration. They cover the totality of workplaces, not just restaurants. Created in 1970 by president Richard Nixon, Its mission is to prevent work-related injuries, illnesses, and deaths by issuing and enforcing standards for workplace safety....

Category: Business Opportunities
Total Views: 2
Word Count: 1056
Date: Apr 10th 2007
103. Tips For a Hospitality and Restaurant Business Website
Whether you run a restaurant, espresso cafe, hotel, or inn, having a website is becoming an essential part of doing business in the 21st century. Think of a web page as a virtual storefront - another way for your potential customers to discover and interact with your business....

Category: Careers Employment
Total Views: 3
Word Count: 920
Date: Apr 6th 2007
104. Considering a Casino Career
Hospitality workers consider all kinds of places to start their career, but the one-stop place for every hospitality career you can think of is a casino. Frequently, casinos roll a bar, restaurant, hotel, concierge, retail stores, and entertainment services all under one roof....

Category: Business Opportunities
Total Views: 3
Word Count: 859
Date: Apr 5th 2007
105. The Tradition of Tipping
The hospitality industry - and any other industry which counts tips as part of their income - might be interested to know the origins and customs of tipping. Always good to know should anybody ask....

Category: Gourmet
Total Views: 5
Word Count: 1038
Date: Apr 5th 2007
106. All About Monosodium Glutamate (MSG) in the Food Industry
Pretty controversial for a food additive. The reactions to it are all over the dial. Patrons object to MSG in restaurant food, then go home and make a soup with chicken bullion just loaded with MSG and think nothing of it....

Category: Careers Employment
Total Views: 3
Word Count: 962
Date: Apr 3rd 2007
107. A Guide to the Finer Points of the Hostess and Cashier
Of all the restaurant careers, perhaps the position of a hostess is the most demanding. You have to be sharp on your people skills, appear immaculate, be good on the phone, communicate well with the restaurant staff, and of course do it all while being on your feet for the whole shift....

Category: Gourmet
Total Views: 5
Word Count: 1135
Date: Apr 3rd 2007
108. Seven Mistakes in Designing and Decorating a Restaurant
A restaurant is able to offer a wide range of appeal to the senses. The quality of your food appealing to your customer's sense of taste, the delightful smells wafting from the kitchen appealing to your customers sense of smell....

Category: Gourmet
Total Views: 4
Word Count: 983
Date: Apr 3rd 2007
109. Good Resume Karma for Hospitality Workers
So, you've done your turn in the trenches. You've been a busperson, head waiter, bartender, host, and what-not. After ten to twenty years, many hospitality workers, feeling burned-out at the late shifts and long hours, yearn to break into the ranks of higher management....

Category: Gourmet
Total Views: 3
Word Count: 1047
Date: Mar 27th 2007
110. Alcoholic Beverage Safety How it Effects Guests in the Food Service Industry
While we all learn by rote the principles of safety in an establishment that serves alcohol, not much is said in this environment about what exactly alcohol does. In dealing with customers, it helps to understand exactly what effect alcohol has on the system, which not even many drinkers of alcoholic beverages are aware of...

Category: Clothing
Total Views: 14
Word Count: 541
Date: Feb 13th 2007
111. Dickies School Uniforms Spice Up Your Academic Look
Students have it rough nowadays. Not only do they have to keep up with note taking, tests and essays, but they also have to deal with the pressure to sport the latest fashions at school just to fit it. A solution for some school administrators is to choose Dickies school uniforms....

Category: Clothing
Total Views: 4
Word Count: 518
Date: Feb 13th 2007
112. Chef Uniforms Style Made to Order
Isn't it funny how many chef uniforms in high-class restaurants are white? Even a regular person who wears white shirts or pants has a hard time keeping them spot and stain-free on a normal day....

Category: Clothing
Total Views: 10
Word Count: 520
Date: Feb 13th 2007
113. Impression Well Maid The Importance of Maid and Housekeeping Uniforms
If you've ever wandered the halls of a hotel searching for an ice dispenser or snack machine, the most convenient employee to track down is a maid or housekeeper....

Category: Careers Employment
Total Views: 4
Word Count: 521
Date: Jan 30th 2007
114. Chef Career Let's Get Cooking
If you find yourself right at home in the kitchen, perhaps a chef career would be right up your alley. When the thought of a chef career comes to mind, it may project thoughts of slaving over a hot, smelly grill, flipping burgers and hearing endless orders shouted through a loud speaker....

Category: Clothing
Total Views: 3
Word Count: 518
Date: Jan 30th 2007
115. Career Apparel Dress for Success
Ever wondered why you didn't land your dream job? You rehearsed for your interview, researched the company, and appeared to be a qualified applicant at the interview....

Category: Clothing
Total Views: 6
Word Count: 498
Date: Jan 30th 2007
116. Aprons The Necessary Accessory
For employees who cook in a restaurant kitchen or work in the dining room waiting tables, wearing an apron is often a uniform requirement....

Category: Clothing
Total Views: 2
Word Count: 541
Date: Jan 29th 2007
117. Business Uniforms Success Is In The Look
As they say, you never get a second chance to make a first impression. This definitely applies to the required business uniforms of a company or money-making establishment....

Category: Careers Employment
Total Views: 2
Word Count: 1042
Date: Jan 25th 2007
118. Employment Opportunities for Veterinarians Expected to Grow Fast
Employment opportunities for veterinarians are expected to grow fast. Single adults have come to appreciate animal companionship....

Category: Careers Employment
Total Views: 2
Word Count: 1172
Date: Jan 25th 2007
119. Professional Careers in The Growing Spa Industry
The term spa is traditionally used to mean a place where water that is believed to have special health-giving properties occurs....

Category: Careers Employment
Total Views: 5
Word Count: 1033
Date: Jan 23rd 2007
120. A Hotel And Restaurant Management Career Might Be For You
A career in hotel and restaurant management might be for you if you like to make important decisions, hire staff and run the day to the day operations of your business. It might sound like fun stuff but it is hard work....

Category: Careers Employment
Total Views: 4
Word Count: 1139
Date: Jan 22nd 2007
121. An Exciting Security Officer Career as a Body Guard
A bodyguard is a person who professionally protects someone (known as their principal) from personal assault, kidnapping, assassination, loss of confidential information, or other threats....

Category: Careers Employment
Total Views: 3
Word Count: 1042
Date: Jan 18th 2007
122. Job Opportunities and Professional Careers in the Restaurant Industry
Food services and drinking places may be the world's most widespread and familiar industry. These establishments include all types of restaurants, from casual fast-food eateries to formal, elegant dining establishments....

Category: Careers Employment
Total Views: 2
Word Count: 1087
Date: Jan 18th 2007
123. Opportunities in a Resort Management Career the Billion Dollar Tourism Industry
Tourism and commercial recreation is over an $800 billion industry in the United States. Globally, tourism accounts for approximately 12% of the Gross Domestic Product, employing 10% of the worldwide labor force....

Category: Careers Employment
Total Views: 2
Word Count: 1041
Date: Jan 18th 2007
124. The Opportunities in a Nursing Career and Demand for Quality Nurses
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports employment among nurses will grow faster than the average for all occupations. Demand for quality nurses continues to escalate. Much faster-than-average growth will be driven by technological advances in patient care, which permit a greater number of medical problems to be treated, and by an increasing emphasis on preventive care....

Category: Careers Employment
Total Views: 4
Word Count: 1089
Date: Jan 18th 2007
125. Want Responsibility Excitement and Good Income a Police Career is For You
A police officer (also known as a constable in some countries) is employed in most cases by federal, state/provincial or municipal governments and has the responsibility (or duty) of enforcing federal, state/provincial laws along with municipal/city ordinances....

Category: Careers Employment
Total Views: 3
Word Count: 1019
Date: Jan 18th 2007
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