Thursday, January 10, 2013
Aldi to hold job fairs this morning at area locations. Fashion Bug stores are coming to end of the road.
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Evergreen Park Patch has several ways to help your business be more successful. Find out our five ways your business can use Patch.
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Evergreen Park Patch has several ways to help your business be more successful. Find out our five ways your business can use Patch.
Monday, August 22, 2011
If you're a business owner, this is an awesome way to reach customers. And if you're a Patch reader, Deals will be a great way to save money.
Yet another great feature has come to your Patch — local Deals — and we’re super psyched about this one. Patch Deals will help readers save up to 90 percent on local products and services at some of the Southland’s best businesses. Look for the Deals at the top of our homepage. Or sign up for Patch Deals alerts — just go to the "Notifications Settings" in your profile and click Patch Deals. And if you have yet to sign up for the daily e-mail newsletter, where Deals will appear alongside the day’s best local stories, please do. If you run a business in the south suburbs, what's the deal for you? Well, most of the major "deals" vendors focus on major-metro areas, not your hometown. The locally focused nature of a Patch Deal means you’ll …
Monday, May 23, 2011
Batter up! BaseballRacks.com, run by an Evergreen Park man, has all the customizable baseball equipment a team could ever need--and they're not stopping there.
Dave Payton knows when most states start their high school baseball seasons. He didn't always know that Florida began their season in January, or Mississippi and Arkansas tend to follow the sunshine state. Payton quickly learned those schedules as demand boomed for the baseball products his company, BaseballRacks.com, produces. At first Payton only needed to build baseball helmet racks for one local team. From there, a few more ordered. Today, Payton is shipping those racks and other baseball accessories all over the country. "We're probably in 48 states," Payton, who, along with his partner Rob LeVan, own BaseballRacks.com. Based out of Evergreen Park, the business began in 2005 after Payton was asked to build some racks for Carmel …
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Mauricio Mora wants Evergreen Park residents to know that he and his business partner offer the best car-wash service around.
As the old adage goes, "you get what you pay for." Brothers Hand Car Wash, 9816 S. Kedzie Ave., definitely subscribes to that slogan. In Evergreen Park for the past three years, the business believes in taking the time to really wash its customers' cars by hand, instead of using a conventional car-washing machine. "We care about your vehicle," Mauricio Mora, co-owner and general manager, said. "People, with the economy, are looking for a cheap carwash where the drive-through is a couple bucks. That's not good, because the cheap washes scratch car paint. We recommend washing cars by hand." In fact, that is the only way Mora and his employees wash their customers' cars, he said. "It's much better," he said. It's important to Mora that his …
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Potayto Potahto general manager Marian Stallings tells us all about her spuds.
Crazy about spuds? Our latest Weekly Business Spotlight featured Marian Stallings, general manager of Potayto Potahto, 2849 W. 95th Street, who turned her love for potatoes into a full-blown business. "I'm a Carb-o-holic," she said, enthusiastically. We asked her what her most unique potato dish was. You may have never heard of this one before. Check her out in our Business Rewind.
Monday, April 4, 2011
Dek: Pronounce it however you like; Potayto Potahto will prepare your favorite spud dish no matter how you say it.
In September 2010, Marian Stallings decided to open up a restaurant solely based on her favorite food: potatoes. By December, Stallings had found a location to house Potayto Potahto in her native Evergreen Park. "If I opened up anywhere, it would be my town,” she said. Experienced in managing retail stores, this is her first venture into the restaurant business. “I am a carb-o-holic and love potatoes,” Stallings said. “I have always known different ways to make potatoes. You go to a restaurant and get potato salad and it’s a side dish. Here, it’s the main dish.” Open since Feb. 20, the restaurant’s menu features a large variety of potatoes made into everything from six types of standard french fries, eight selections of gourmet fries, …
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Cavatappi restaurant owners Bill Mulchrone and Potito Conza tell us about how they've been innovative in this new economy.
In this Monday's Weekly Business Spotlight, we spoke with Cavatappi restaurant owners Bill Mulchrone and Potito Conza, two men who've brought a little bit of Italy to Evergreen Park. In its 7 months in the village, Cavatappi didn't exactly open in the best economic climate. We asked them how they've managed to make it work in their favor. We also asked Conza, who's been in the United States for 18 months, how different his American kitchen is from his Italian kitchen. Check them out in our Business Rewind.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Once the art director at the Daily Southtown newspaper, Carl Bonasera lived out his dream of becoming a comic artist through establishing his own comic business.
When Carl Bonasera was growing up, he dreamt of becoming a comic book artist. While he didn’t become one, Bonasera became an integral part of the comic business in his own right. As the owner of All-American Comic Shop, 3576 W. 95th St., for the last 30 years, Bonasera has certainly accomplished his goal of working in the field. “I wanted to be a comic artist as a kid,” Bonasera said. “I went backwards and started selling them.” Open in Evergreen Park since 1981, Bonasera opened the shop while also working as the art director at the Daily Southtown newspaper. Eventually he was able to quit that job and make his booming comic business his full-time focus. “At the time, I was working for the Southtown and knew the Southside real well,” …
Loretta Torres
8:23 am on Tuesday, August 23, 2011
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