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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Andrew Moore / The Bulletin
April 7, 2009
Owning a restaurant is easy. Making it profitable is another thing altogether.
According to Kevin Smith, a Bend-based food service and hospitality consultant with the Sherpa Consulting Group, roughly 80 percent of restaurants fail within their first year. He said the success rate improves every....