A digital channel will soon feature Aiken restaurant – The Feed Sack. Mike Petchenik explains in this edition of Biz Bits. If you’d like to read more quality content, please consider supporting ABD’s mission by clicking here.
The die is cast and the information blitzkrieg is underway as the Augusta-Richmond County Coliseum Authority touts the benefits of a new James Brown Arena. On Nov. 7, Richmond County voters are being asked to go to the polls and vote in favor of a referendum creating a half-cent sales tax to pay for the project. SB230 creating the Coliseum Special Local Option Sales Tax, or C-SPLOST was approved by the Georgia Legislature during the 2023 legislative session and signed into law by Gov. Brian Kemp. Now, the onus is
Are you looking for superstars? Patrick Reynolds, CEO of Crosslink, discusses tweaking the hiring process to get the best candidates for your business and they may not be who you think they are.
If you are a pinball wizard or grew up with Pac-Man or Donkey Kong video games, get ready for social gaming paradise. Radioactive Pinball Arcade will celebrate its Grand Opening on August 26th at 113 Laurens St., Ste 103, in Aiken. Owners, Eric and Erin Edwards are in the midst of working hard to make the arcade a special place to socialize and reconnect with some of the pinball machines and gameplay of your past. Let’s start with the heavy lifting and where 42 pinball machines and 30 arcade games
This past weekend, my wife and I escaped the summer heat for a few hours and went to see the highly anticipated summer blockbuster movie, “Oppenheimer.” I had been anxiously anticipating seeing this movie since I had seen a preview months ago, and then reading reviews and interacting with others who had seen the movie only heightened my anticipation. Some of my anticipations came from my interest in how a great scientific feat is accomplished, as the movie chronicles, J. Robert Oppenheimer’s time leading the Los Alamos Laboratory efforts, otherwise
Sometimes, gifts that keep on giving come from unlikely sources. Metallica shows their philanthropic side with a large investment in Aiken Tech and other schools with workforce programs. Mike Petchenik has the scoop in today’s Biz Bits.
In his 20 years as CEO of Crosslink, Patrick Reynolds leads the way in cyber security, but he has also learned a lot about leadership. At the ABD EXPO in May, he shared a huge mind shift in corporate culture and how that has made a positive impact on his company.
A little piece of Ecuador has come to Augusta with the opening of Relic Coffee Company’s location in the historic Summerville area. Located on 1504 Monte Sano Ave. in Augusta, the family-owned 100% Ecuadorian café and bakery had a soft opening on Aug. 6, which brought in many customers eager to support the new business. A grand opening is scheduled for Aug. 19. The shop has a simple menu of Ecuadorian-inspired coffees and pastries, all of which are served in-house. Cesar Schettini, owner of Relic Coffee Company, said the company’s
The Bureau of Labor Statistics recently announced that job openings were down in 15 states, and little changed in the other 35 on the last day of May. In Georgia, job openings were down 17,000, but job openings were up 6,000 in South Carolina. Job openings are one variable in the Augusta Leading Economic Index (LEI), and they have been trending down since February. Fortunately, other components of the LEI have been trending up. Residential building permits were up 31 percent in May and have increased in four out of
One of the ways companies can engage and retain younger professionals is by offering them more money, according to Nate Lauger. Lauger, operations manager for the Augusta Manpower franchise, which serves both the CSRA and Greenwood, will facilitate a panel discussion at the North Augusta Chamber of Commerce’s Good Morning, North Augusta event on Thursday, from 7:30-9:00 a.m. in the Palmetto Terrace Ballroom, on the fourth floor of the North Augusta Municipal Building. The topic of the discussion will be “Understanding Young Professionals and Their Needs.” The panelists for this
