Author: John Pepper

Our neighbor and VN columnist Jim Kenyon struck again over this long Memorial Day weekend. It is hard not to go point by point and refute nearly all of it, but I’ve tried to stay concise...

This is the subject of an email I received a few months back. Finally, the lights in question, formally known as “RRFB”s or Rectangular Rapid Flashing Beacons, were installed in August, already a few...

My eyeballs popped when I read the top headline in Nation’s Restaurant News this morning on my phone. I’m not kidding. Basic math skills and even the faintest whiff of humanitarian tendencies allow one...

Last week the editor of a restaurant trade magazine sent me a list of questions related to the Raise the Wage Act (HR 582) she hoped I might answer. I didn’t get to them...

In 2016, I joined a very special group of founders and CEOs called the Tugboat Institute. Earlier this year they interviewed me about using purpose as our key turnaround strategy at Boloco. The original...

Our neighbor and VN columnist Jim Kenyon struck again over this long Memorial Day weekend. It is hard not to go point by point and refute nearly all of it, but I’ve tried to...

I have always loved my gadgets. Whether it was the football handheld by Mattel, Atari, the Passport radar detector or my portable video camera from the 80s, or one of the early Apple laptops,...