What small joke can grow to become

 The photo to the left is the first of the now soon to be three Ninjas Japanese Restaurants. We are located in a Shopping Plaza so you could understand there is little room for expansion.

Luckily!  We have a vacant spot right next door (to the right) to our little slice of business. It is roughly the same size of our current restaurant. I have jokingly brought this idea up to the owner for the past few years I have worked along side her. The time now more than ever seems prevalent to expand.

The business is growing from what I can tell form the number of customers we have from a day to day basis to the sales we have consecutively beaten from the ones from the previous years. I have yet to work the logistics of the proposal for the owner to show her how the expansion would benefit for the better and pull more of a profit for the establishment. The past few time I have spoken to her about an expansion she has seemed to grow more eager and willing to ponder the idea!

The Idea of Marketing?

   These Photo's show a recently built electronic billboard. it does a 10 second interval for each business that purchased a time slot.

       I am currently the manager of Ninjas Japanese sushi and Steakhouse, I worked on gaining a spot on this specific billboard and while I approached the owner with this idea she didn't feel like it was worth the money. The selling point I made was that on such a busy part of Hwy 31 it seemed like the most beneficial to the business for we are located on the entire opposite side of town. She believes in word of mouth for business but that can only get you so far.

       It showed me that some business owners just don't believe in advertisement. I guess its due to the fact they can not see a direct impact of profit or sales when spending revenue on such a static object, even though it has been tried and proven for many years.