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Archive for July 17th, 2010

On the town
Top of Utah 21-and-over venues AMERICAN LEGION POST 87, 128 S. Main, Layton. 801-544-7220. 8 p.m. Fridays: karaoke. Friends of veterans welcome. read more

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Asheville Ale House to close Sunday
ASHEVILLE — Asheville Ale House will close its doors on Sunday. The sports bar, at 114 Biltmore Ave., will host a closing party that evening starting at 10 p.m.

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According to CareerBuilders annual survey on absenteeism, 34% of workers played hooky. Among those, 30% wanted to relax; 22% wanted to sleep; and 9% wanted to skip a meeting, spend time working on an overdue project or avoid an angry boss or colleague. When it comes to employers, 31% checked up on employees who called in sick and 18% fired workers who missed work without a legitimate reason. The good news is 65% of employers thought wanting a mental health day was a legitimate reason. The other 35% of employers might need a mental health day themselves. According to Sageworks, a firm that tracks the financial performance of private companies, dentists had an average profit margin of 17% in 2008 – higher than any other business. There are supposedly 3 reasons for this. First, people concerned about losing their jobs used their dental insurance while they still had it. Second, people with limited or no dental insurance skipped routine checkups to save money, which often resulted in having dental problems requiring expensive procedures. Third, stress-induced teeth grinding caused an increase in fractured teeth. Obviously, dentistry is a business that doesn’t mind the bite of a recession. According to a federally funded study, 878 General Electric employees who wanted to quit smoking were divided into 2 groups. In the group paid not to smoke – up to $750 after 12 months – 15% were tobacco-free a year later – 3 times as many as in the non-paid group. The paid group also had 4 times as many people complete a smoking cessation program. In 2010 this program will be offered companywide. Because GE spends $50 million annually on extra costs for smoking employees, it expects to recoup the program’s cost in 3-5 years – not see it go up in smoke. According to statistics, bar sales are down and liquor sales are up. Whether it’s beer, wine or distilled liquor, Americans drink an average of 2. 5 gallons of alcohol a year; and that statistic hasn’t changed in decades. People don’t drink less alcohol in hard economic times. They drink at home to save money. To attract customers bar owners are considering such things as laser lighting, social networking, karaoke and video games. A Wisconsin bar owner put on a “polar plunge”, serving drinks to customers who jumped into a nearby icy river. Maybe that bar owner understands the cold facts of doing business in a recession.