Iconic gaming pioneer, Atari, is stretching far beyond gaming products on one of their biggest licensing deals yet. Literally. The company announced this week that it will be getting into the hotel business with plans to develop eight Atari-themed hotels around the country. Austin gaming heads, hold onto your seats because the first hotel to break ground will be in Phoenix, Arizona later this year.

It’s no secret...Austin’s happy hour scene is huge. With fast-growing food scenes in every which direction of the city, you can almost always bet you’ll find specials on delicious bites and drinks that are hard to pass up! For our first Happy Hour Spotlight this month, we feature a few of our current places for cheap eats and drinks to make the end of a workday something to look forward to.

Austin, Texas, September 10th, 2019 — Alex Vazquez, CEO of Urban Simple, has been invited to join Austin Business Journal Leadership Trust, an exclusive community for influential business leaders, executives, and entrepreneurs in Central Texas

We are excited to announce that each month we will be featuring one of our beloved clients on the blog! This feature will include everything you need to know about the establishment along with some fun facts, upcoming events, and photos. Our 1st feature for May 2019 will be Cosmic Coffee!

As increasing numbers of consumers want to dine out or take prepared food home, the number of food-service operations has skyrocketed from 155,000 about 40 years ago to nearly 960,000 today. But there's still room in the market for your food-service business.

Wu Chow, the restaurant run by the team behind Swift's Attic (C.K. Chin and Stuart Thomajan), is finally opening on Thursday, November 5, 2015 for fans of the highly anticipated restaurant and its dim sum, soup dumplings, and modern takes on traditional Chinese cuisine.

Myths and misinformation abound in the cooking world. From old wives' tales to supposed anecdotes, much of what we have been taught is just downright wrong. Many myths just lead to added steps and time to your food preparation, and in the long run, an inferior product.

Health departments across the country are making restaurant and bar inspection scores more visible to the public. Health scores are revealed in the newspaper, online or are even required to be posted in the front window of a restaurant in some cities.