Business

8251 BBQ – Chewelah’s Newest Restaurant

By Gabriel Cruden / February 1, 2025 /

by Chloe Thompson Chewelah offers a lively culinary landscape that boasts a variety of great restaurants, cafes, and breakfast spots to cater to all tastes – and there’s another exciting…

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Taste Budz Review: Fusion Korean Restaurant

By Gabriel Cruden / February 1, 2025 /

By Zack & Brooklyn Bolin, Facebook: Taste Budz, Instagram: tastebudz_spokane Zack and I recently discovered a hidden gem called Fusion Korean in Airway Heights. The building is quaint, and the interior…

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Taste Budz Review: Big Red’s Colbert Trading Company

By Gabriel Cruden / December 1, 2024 /

When you walk up to a restaurant and they have a coin-operated batmobile out front, you know you are in for a treat. At least, that is how Zack and…

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Taste Budz Review: Leaven Bakery and Patisserie

By Gabriel Cruden / November 1, 2024 /

  By Zack & Brooklyn Bolin, Facebook: Taste Budz, Instagram: tastebudz_spokane   What we enjoyed  ~Almond Croissant  ~Classic Croissant  ~Ham & Cheese Croissant  ~Pain Au Chocolate  ~Cinnamon Roll ~Latte  ~Americano …

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The SBA Loan Option for Small Business Start-ups

By Gabriel Cruden / July 1, 2024 /

Way back in February of this year, I wrote an article outlining the various options for funding a new business venture. If you want to explore, that article can be…

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Taste Budz Review: The Pickett Fence

By Gabriel Cruden / July 1, 2024 /

After the gym, Zack and I decided to have a little late lunch date. We were in Deer Park and had seen some delicious looking pictures from The Pickett Fence…

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Your Customers’ Needs versus Your Customers’ Demographics

By Gabriel Cruden / June 1, 2024 /

Consider this: I’m a 51-year-old, married, white male with a master’s degree. I have two kids who are in their late teens/early 20’s, I enjoy an above average household income…

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Supporting Local Bees and Inspiring Smiles Through Flowers

By Gabriel Cruden / June 1, 2024 /

“I do it for the buzz. I do it for the bees. I don’t even know how many pictures I have taken of napping bumble bees.”   Chani Blizzard-Durkin has…

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Taste Budz Review: The Lakehouse Bar and Grill in Loon Lake

By Gabriel Cruden / May 15, 2024 /

Zack and I can’t say enough good things about The Lakehouse Bar and Grill in Loon Lake, WA. We have told you all about their dinner service but we had…

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Pros and Cons of Venture Capital and Angel Investment

By Gabriel Cruden / April 25, 2024 /

  Back again, folks! Over the past few columns I’ve written on the business startup process and we’ve burned a good amount of ink discussing various funding approaches: bootstrapping, searching…

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