Black-owned company buys food chain

(gazette.net) “Chris Patterson always had big ideas about growing the Austin Grill brand. Now he’s got the financial backing to do it.

Patterson, president and COO of the Austin Grill chain of Tex-Mex restaurants with headquarters in Gaithersburg, has only good things to say about the recent sale of the chain to Thompson Hospitality of Herndon, Va.

‘‘It’s a great opportunity for us because they have the financial support that the former company didn’t have,” said Patterson, a Gaithersburg resident who has been running the Austin Grill chain since 2000.

‘‘It will give us an opportunity to grow the brand, something we’re excited about,” he said. ‘‘[Previous ownership] wanted to do that, but just didn’t have the financial strength.”

Thompson Hospitality has annual revenues of more than $200 million, said its CEO, Warren Thompson.” (more…)

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  1. Dave Says:
    November 20th, 2006 at 7:33 am

    Now this is good news and it is positive, you should post more of this D.B. I do understand also, that if you post good news about black people more it will cause your reader-ship to decrees to some degree because people prefer the negative news. You have some good side links about black AMERICA AND THAT IS kool! More power to this black owned ompany.

  2. Dave Says:
    November 20th, 2006 at 7:37 am

    I don’t know if you accept recommendations for your blog to enhance it because I have some. I am not trying to be a pain by telling you what to do but I feel you could do something that will help your blog and make it easier for the readers.

    DO you accept recommendations D.B.?

  3. Duane Says:
    November 20th, 2006 at 9:08 am

    Use the “contact” link above for recomendations

  4. Dave Says:
    November 20th, 2006 at 1:28 pm

    These are simple recommendations so I will leave them here because they are not difficult. A. You should increase the font size of your words they are too too small and hard to read when you post your articles.

    B. Your side bar links the writing is so tiny that it is very very difficult to see the link names, because the font size is way too tiny.

    c. You need to have recent post in your side bar, you need to go to one of your old template and copy the recent post code and add it to your side bar.

    These three things can help you out a lot especially increasing you font size, your font size I recommend on the post you increase your font size to medium; (you must put —> ; after the word medium) too. This will give your viewers a chance to increase the font size. You can use 18px; or 19px; but I recommend you type medium; or large; many people don’t know that when it comes to font you can use the words small; medium; large; give it a try and if you don’t like anything I recommend then you can always change it back.

    Your side bar I recommend you put the font size at 16px; or 17px; this will help readers view your links. You have good links about black America but many people find it hard too see too tiny. Let us see how it looks!

  5. Dave Says:
    November 20th, 2006 at 1:42 pm

    YOu need archives also, go find the archive code from one of your old blogs copy it and paste it.

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