Just back from Milwaukee where I attended the Rhinehart restaurant show. We had to go up there because buying at the show got us a big discount for the next five weeks on most of the things we purchase. All in all it was a lot of pretty mediocre food, but the deals were good and we found some things that we'd been missing/looking for.
I filed the retail food license application with the City of Chicago on Tuesday morning before I left for Milwaukee. Chicago has come a long way in the last fifteen years, at least in the way that it handles small business affairs. It used to be that you would go down first thing in the morning, prepared to wait all day to see someone, and then usually they didn't know what they were talking about, or they were too lazy to try to help you if every single thing on your work wasn't perfect. Now you ride up to the eighth floor and have an interview with an account advisor. They ask you what it is you're trying to accomplish, run a check on relevant city regulations, and then print a customized application telling you what it is that you have to do in order to get the application accepted. There's still a good deal of waiting, but they open at 8 AM and if you get your butt down there first thing, it usually goes pretty smooth. I was in and out in twenty minutes, which left me plenty of time for a good breakfast at Lou Mitchell's before the train ride up to Milwaukee.
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