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August 26, 2021

Consumer Stories

Grand Opening of $1.7 Million Evans restaurant is today!

If practice makes perfect, then Slim Chickens franchisee Jim Bennett should feel pretty good about today’s grand opening at the corner of Washington Road and North Belair in Evans. On Tuesday, Bennett and his team served hundreds of complimentary meals from a limited menu to friends and family as a way of providing needed training for its new staff. Other than a brief outage of a Point of Sale (POS) system at the beginning of the dinner hour, dozens of customer service employees took orders and served hungry volunteers. Meals

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Consumer Stories

National company with 3 CSRA locations gives all its employees $100!

Imagine how you would react if your company handed you a stack of 100 $1 bills. For many, that probably sounds like a dream, but it’s exactly what happened to every employee of Classic Collision – a collision repair company – nationwide on August 19 and 20. The surprise gift was the company’s way of celebrating the purchase of its 100th location, which is in Oregon, according to Tracy Bryant, regional director. “It would’ve been easy to hand everyone a gift card or a $100 bill, but our CEO (Toan

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B2B Stories

How we can help the CSRA hospitality industry in need

Editor’s Note: This story was first published on May 27th. With the emergence of the Delta Variant, not a lot has changed for the hospitality industry in the CSRA. On Tuesday morning the Starbucks Coffee Shop on Washington Road at I-20 CLOSED because there was not enough staff to service guests. They re-opened Wednesday morning after locating workers. On the same day, one of the Gary’s Hamburgers had to close at 3 pm—the stories go on and on.  As part of our weekly strategic alliance with AU’s Hull College of

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