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So You Want to Buy a Restaurant...

FOOD 101 | Do you have what it takes to be a successful restaurateur? Our franchise expert offers some words of wisdom.

Restaurant Rescue?

Jon Taffer, host of the hit TV show Bar Rescue, has set out to solve the problems of food-service franchising. His solution is called Taffer's Tavern.

One Restaurant, Eight Brands

To boost sales during the pandemic, the founders of Dog Haus flooded delivery apps with virtual restaurants that operate out of existing franchise kitchens. They've been so valuable that they're now here to stay-and are coming soon to a grocery store near you.

Made for Times Both Good and Bad

After inaugurating its franchise program in a challenging year, Outer Banks Boil Company is eyeing future success.

It's Time For Calendar Zero

Protect your time like the precious resource it is. Here's a simple way to start.

How to Make Your Loyalty Program Succeed

CUSTOMER CONNECTION | Every brand, no matter the size, can use these programs to foster community and grow sales. Here's how.

GRILL GOALS

Let ’em sizzle down below And lower the grate for a last-minute char | Chefs and other masters of the flame share tips on how to elevate your outdoor cooking-including fresh techniques, surprising equipment, and even acts of bravery

Security Is SYNERGY

Kneeling beneath a framed print of Thomas Kinkade’s painting A Peaceful Retreat, Roli Chiu, alarm system installer, began his work one day in March by unpacking boxes of devices inside a new customer’s living room.

It's a MASSIVE Crime, Probably the LARGEST Art Theft in History

The looters arrived late in the afternoon at Koh Ker, a ruined 10th century city in northern Cambodia. They made their way through scrubby jungle to Prasat Krachap, a compact stone temple dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva and his son Skanda. They walked carefully. The countryside was strewn with land mines, and on another expedition some of the looters had watched a wandering cow be blown up.

Taken

To the east of the Gay Fish Co. dock on South Carolina’s St. Helena Island, a new bridge soars above the water, high enough for the shrimp boats to clear as they head to sea. It hits ground near the gatehouse for the private Harbor Island, where some of the colorful triple-decker beach homes have backyard tennis courts and putting greens.

Life Insurance for the Dead

A wave of fraudulent claims swept through the rural villages of India's northeast, until police crackdowns and Covid seemed to snuff them out-for a while, anyway | faked death

Don't Forget an Exit Plan

Did a novelty rapper and her startup-guy boyfriend commit history's biggest heist?

The Tortured Truth

Bobomurod Abdullayev was a decent enough sports reporter, but he was a really good politics blogger. Household-name good. Getting-things-done good. So good that he lived in fear of government agents showing up to take him away.

Jenny Slate

ONE OF THE FIRST YOUTUBE VIRAL VIDEOS WAS MARCEL THE SHELL WITH Shoes On. Released in 2010 and created and voiced by Jenny Slate with Dean Fleischer-Camp, the video about a talking shell has since raked in millions of views, been turned into a children's book and now is a new film from the studio A24.

Why Sports Nearly Didn't Make It Into Title IX

The daughter of Representative Patsy Mink, Title IX’s legislative champion, recounts the personal drama behind the near-exclusion of athletics from the law

‘TITLE IX MOVED MOUNTAINS—BUT THERE'S SO MUCH MORE TO DO'

Distance swimmer and five-time Olympic medalist JANET EVANS on the need to continue building equity and inclusion in sports

‘YOU HAVE TO LET THE GAME COME TO YOU'

College hoops star ALIYAH BOSTON on her championship path and why Black women in sports deserve more respect

Sheryl Swoopes – 'I made guys respect me as a baller'

Basketball Hall of Famer Sheryl Swoopes talks about being a Title IX baby and the first woman drafted into the WNBA

Lisa Fernandez – 'Sports Is One Way to Teach So Much About Life'

Lisa Fernandez, 51, has often been called women's softball's greatest-of-all-time. An overpowering pitcher and a great hitter, in the 1990s she led the UCLA Bruins to two national titles and the U.S. Olympic team to three gold medals, helping to spark the sport's tremendous growth in popularity since then. She is now an assistant coach at UCLA. The following conversation has been edited for space and clarity. -Meredith Wolf Schizer

The Other NBA Draft

League officials, investors, and Barack Obama are betting they can make basketball Africa’s second-biggest sport—and Africa basketball’s most valuable growth market

TikTok Turns On the Money Machine

The ad revenue is already flowing, and e-commerce is next

The Scuffle Over Your Stock Trades

The SEC’s ideas to change how markets work could shake up the brokerage business

The Global Currency War Begins

Desperate to tame inflation, central bankers are vying for more buying power

Spotify's Long, Winding, and Pricey Journey Into Podcasting Is Very Much Not Over Yet

The company spent $1 billion on studios and top-tier talent. Now it wants to be podcaster for the everyman

Is China At Peak Property?

An extended slump in home sales may be a bigger drag on growth this year than lockdowns

FLUBBED

Inflation blunders have strained the trust that anchored the dollar and other currencies for decades

Elon Musk's Sober Outlook

The billionaire Tesla chief cast a shadow over prospects for the US economy and the Twitter deal

Where Ultrafast Delivery Still Zooms

India’s so-called quick commerce is soaring, but high cash burn may clip the startups’ wings

Changpeng Zhao – “I don't really care much about money”

Critics say Changpeng Zhao became the wealthiest man in crypto by operating the equivalent of an unlicensed casino. He says that’s all in the past

Yellen on the Outs

The White House has sidelined the ex-Fed chair on key issues