April 18, 2016
A New Team Helps Steer Restaurateurs Through a Thicket of Red Tape
Summary
New York is known for their many restaurants and eateries but what does it take to start a restaurant? The answer to that question includes "11 city agencies, often with conflicting requirements; secure 30 permits, registrations, licenses and certificates; and pass 23 inspections." Sohair Botros, a city employee changed that by helping restaurateurs fill out applications and pass inspections. Sohair Botros was sent as part of the New Business Acceleration Team in New York. This team is focused on helpings "restaurateurs through a bureaucratic maze that is generally more complex than what is required for any other kind of entrepreneur." |
| Eataly- A restaurant who benefited from New York's new team |
Analysis
Bureaucracies are described as being full of complicated procedures and rules and New York is no exception. Restaurants have to follow regulations by filing and filling out countless applications and passing several inspections let alone apply for a liquor license. Now, restaurateurs have help to sort through this red tape. Restaurants are part of what completes the New York atmosphere but federal bureaucracy rules make it difficult to start one. Due to this new program, new restaurants have been opening 10 weeks ahead of schedule.
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