Week over week changes in sales as reported by Zata participants.
BC Restaurants: Down 4.5%
BC Retail Stores: Up 9.4%
Stop guessing how you’re doing and find out. Zata compares your sales and costs to other businesses in your market. Sign up today at www.myzata.com.
-Brad Brooks

Yesterday, Harmony Airways decided to end its scheduled flights, cutting some of them as soon as this Friday. As a result 350 staff are being laid off.
But the staff aren’t the only casualties in this; while customers have been issued full refunds, they’re now forced to rebook travel on short notice. This leaves […]

Week over week changes in sales as reported by Zata participants.
BC Restaurants: Up 7.2%
BC Retail Stores: Up 9.2%
Stop guessing how you’re doing and find out. Zata compares your sales and costs to other businesses in your market. Sign up today at www.myzata.com.
-Brad […]

The 2007 BC Restaurant Salary and Wage Report has been released! Sponsored by BCRFA and Zata, this report was based on the responses from 200 survey respondents.
After crunching all of the data, the report turned out to be 194 pages and covered 19 distinct foodservice positions. The report has been emailed out to […]

Week over week changes in sales as reported by Zata participants.
BC Restaurants: Down 13.2%
BC Retail Stores: Down 8.1%
Stop guessing how you’re doing and find out. Zata compares your sales and costs to other businesses in your market. Sign up today at www.myzata.com.
-Brad Brooks

The decision by the Ontario government to raise minimum wage may have some unintended consequences. A report in the London Free Press stated:

BMO Nesbitt Burns’ deputy chief economist Douglas Porter said if small businesses are forced to cut jobs or hire fewer employees because of the
steep minimum wage increase, those workers living on the […]