Dear HL Clients and Friends, Well, it's summertime and the livin' ain't easy. Monkeypox and mass shootings and melting Europe and impending civil war and the new and improved BA suite of shapeshifting covid variants and just everything.  But hey, we can celebrate a few hundred dollars less that we now have...

Dear HL Clients and Friends, There was some confusion as to the date of our webinar due solely to the fact that I was trapped in my own personal virtual reality where time moves too quickly and my proofreading skills turn to mush.  So. here...

Dear HL Clients and Friends, I know it can be challenging to face the prospect of a world where we become even further dependent and immersed in technology.  I was once a proud luddite and still prefer the analog world, but the Metaverse and the cutting edge concepts that come...

Dear HL Clients and Friends, New York City Mayor Eric Adams will lift the GUEST vaccination requirement for indoor dining and events starting tomorrow, Monday, March 7th. You may be asking yourself, where does this leave us? In short: aside from the EMPLOYEE vaccine mandate, which continues to...

Dear HL Clients and Friends, There was a time in NYC when a restaurant or bar could succeed if the owner was a hustler with well-honed hospitality chops, a clear vision and a few bucks behind them. You might have to endure a temporary setback...

Dear HL Clients and Friends, Two weeks ago as I was walking around my Greenpoint neighborhood, I saw the lines outside and around the corner for City MD and the Polish pharmacies and the Lab Q's and I was perplexed. These were Beanie Baby, Cronut,...

Dear HL Clients and Friends, We know that you're all scrambling at this point with testing and closing and re-opening and canceling and kicking shit. So, in order to keep you informed and updated, we are resuming our newsletters and will publish them as needed....

Dear HL Clients and Friends, It has become apparent over the past few days that COVID is back and the Omicron variant is quickly spreading. We are being barraged with reports of restaurant and bar staff members testing positive and there is a lot of...

Dear HL Clients and Friends: Happy Tuesday, friends. We come to you today with some important reminders. We know how hectic the day-to-day of running your businesses can be – especially in this bizarro world where we now all live. So, we wanted to make...