Start-up business ideas

Barbecue restaurant.

Why? I'm good at it, and it's good.

 

Sports bar.

I was a bartender in college and loved it.

Booze is recession proof.

 

. . . but saloons are a split-level world, under these kind of economic conditions.

The weekends hold up, but the Sunday-Wednesday stretch is pretty damn ugly.

 

True enough Ben.

But I was in the business long enough — and still have two friends who own bars — to know you only need one or two "big nights" to make a living. Everything else is gravy.

 

You could sell 'em cheap to the Mormons.

 

Bar/laundromat. people have to wash their clothes....its takes an hour and a half. what better reason to stay then pour your money into some beer?

 

Solid.

People turn to alcohol in times of crisis, and even sports. That is, if you're a Cubs' fan, of course.

 

In which case you turn to alcohol for everything.

 

I always wondered how much money those automatic car washes throw off....

 

This is wrong but made me laugh really hard

 

As is podiatry, because all the people that wear flip-flops 24-7 will eventually develop foot problems.

 

Everyone in class just turned and looked at me, I laughed so hard.