Urban Food Business Quality & Repeatability
As an urban professional, you know the importance of providing a consistent and high-quality experience for your customers. Whether you run a food truck, manage a kitchen, or work in customer service, it’s essential to be able to repeat success and give your customers the same level of food excellence…
Our Urban Community needs an Escape Room.
An Urban Escape Room is well past due in my opinion. It’s a great way to revitalize an old space in our community. There are already two escape room operations around town, but none intentionally serve people of color.
Do we really know our Urban customers?
Perhaps the most common misconception about our urban community is that it’s monolithic. When we think of Urban, do we imagine a single demographic, one that’s limited to a specific age group, income level or race? There are obvious flaws with these assumptions. For starters, they’re presumptuous. Our Urban customers…
Why we should pay full price whenever possible.
No one wants to talk about it but someone has to say it. When buying from a friend or neighbor you should always attempt to pay full price unless they…
Three tips for keeping more money in your neighborhood.
The old saying, “Cherish what you have, before it’s gone” is true in love, but also true in business. If you don’t spend money where you live, the companies closest to you will either go out of business or move to where the money is. It’s unfortunate that within some…
UrbanKnox.com wants you to buy local
In 2014 we watched Maggie Andersons TED-Talk on the Economic lifespan of a dollar. (see video below) She is the author of “Our Black Year: One Family’s Quest to Buy Black in America’s Racially Divided Economy.” After diving a little into her book, we looked around Knoxville and wondered if…