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Shared Hosting or Managed WordPress
Shared hosting and managed WordPress overlap more than the labels suggest. What Hostinger bundles, how a host firewall can interfere, and how…
What to Ask an Accountant at the First Meeting
A written list of questions for a first accountant meeting, drawn from IRS and SBA pages: credentials, business structure, record keeping and…
Writing a Station Procedure for a Restaurant Line
A one-page station procedure for a restaurant line: setup, checks with numeric limits, corrective action and breakdown, from FDA, USDA and CDC-study…
Using the Specials Board to Move Inventory
A method for using a restaurant specials board to move inventory: count the shelf, read the waste log, build the dish from…
Printing a Menu That Matches the Online One
Keeping printed and online restaurant menus in step: one master menu, a version date, the order of updates, and what Google's own…
Kitchen Scales and Thermometers Worth Buying
A high-capacity scale and a fast thermometer earn their place in a working kitchen. The My Weigh KD-8000, the Thermapen, and what…
Wholesale or Retail for a Small Maker
Wholesale halves your price and asks for volume in return. Two maker guides show how to test a product's cost before you…
Writing Alt Text and Naming Image Files for Search
Camera file names tell search engines nothing. Google's image guidance and the W3C tutorials show how to name files and write alt…
Free Stock Photo Sources and Their Licenses
What the Unsplash, Pexels and Pixabay licenses allow and prohibit, what no license covers, and what Google's published terms say about generated…
A Simple Customer Spreadsheet for a Small Shop
A customer sheet should hold what you will use and nothing you cannot protect. Here is a plain layout, sourced from FTC…