{"id":1204,"date":"2015-02-07T18:25:45","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T23:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/?p=1204"},"modified":"2015-02-07T18:25:45","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T23:25:45","slug":"nooga-com-spin-off-site-dedicated-to-restaurant-closures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/2015\/02\/07\/nooga-com-spin-off-site-dedicated-to-restaurant-closures\/","title":{"rendered":"Nooga.com spin-off site dedicated to restaurant closures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_1203\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1203\" style=\"width: 231px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/restingplace.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/restingplace-231x300.png\" alt=\"Nooga.com screenshot of restaurant closure articles\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/restingplace-231x300.png 231w, https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/restingplace.png 505w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1203\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nooga.com screenshot of restaurant closure articles<\/figcaption><\/figure>At a press conference yesterday afternoon, the Chattanooga local news website Nooga.com announced that it would launch a spin-off site solely dedicated to articles about restaurant closures, called &#8220;Resting Place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We strive to be the number one source of news in Chattanooga about misfortune in the restaurant industry,&#8221; said spokesperson Nic Ingebrigt.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is the American dream to open a homegrown business, fueled by sweat, life savings and the entrepreneurial spirit,&#8221; said Ingebrigt. &#8220;Although it is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/bw\/stories\/2007-04-16\/the-restaurant-failure-mythbusinessweek-business-news-stock-market-and-financial-advice\">myth that 90% of restaurants close within the first year<\/a>, like most other types of businesses, around 60% of new ones will close within three years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is a certain glamour to it all, with hopes of possibly becoming a rock-star chef heralded by foodie bloggers, international epicureans and tastemakers,&#8221; said Ingebrigt. &#8220;But in reality, running a restaurant is extremely difficult and mostly a pain in the ass, having to deal with high levels of stress, economic uncertainty, employees who might flake out on you, fickle fad-following eaters, surprise health inspections and even the occasional argumentative, drunk customer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our new website Resting Place will be a public record of unfulfilled champagne wishes and caviar nightmares, where dreams die like a collapsed souffl\u00e9,&#8221; said Ingebrigt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a press conference yesterday afternoon, the Chattanooga local news website Nooga.com announced that it would launch a spin-off site solely dedicated to articles about restaurant closures, called &#8220;Resting Place.&#8221; &#8220;We strive to be the number one source of news in Chattanooga about misfortune in the restaurant industry,&#8221; said spokesperson Nic Ingebrigt. &#8220;It is the American dream to open a homegrown business, fueled by sweat, life savings and the entrepreneurial spirit,&#8221; said Ingebrigt. &#8220;Although it is a myth that 90% of restaurants close within the first year, like most other types of businesses, around 60% of new ones will close<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}