{"id":13893,"date":"2016-04-08T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T13:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=13893"},"modified":"2016-04-07T23:39:26","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T03:39:26","slug":"baghdad-has-a-pretty-happening-restaurant-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/baghdad-has-a-pretty-happening-restaurant-scene\/","title":{"rendered":"Baghdad Has A Pretty Happening Restaurant Scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/040816_0334_BaghdadHasA1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"505\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Economist had a piece on Baghdad&#8217;s restaurant golden age:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There&#8217;s not a lot to do these days in Baghdad so people go out to restaurants.<\/li>\n<li>It has led to about one new restaurant opening every three days \u2013 and few of them fail with profit margins over 50% being fairly common.<\/li>\n<li>Operating in Baghdad has its idiosyncrasies. The city&#8217;s sole food critic can&#8217;t give out negative reviews because it costs millions to open up a high end restaurant, but only about $5,000 to order a hit on someone bad for business.<\/li>\n<li>Parking lots might be overtaken by militant forces that charge exorbitant amounts for &#8220;safe&#8221; parking.<\/li>\n<li>Once you get past that though there&#8217;s a fair amount of innovation. In one restaurants patrons dine surrounded by art hanging on the walls \u2013 all of which is for sale.<\/li>\n<li>The boom has been particularly good for chefs who can now expect to make as much as $9,000 a month.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about other businesses that have benefitted from the restaurant industries rising star, and many other details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/middle-east-and-africa\/21695878-just-place-night-out-signs-happier-times?frsc=dg%7Ce\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/middle-east-and-africa\/21695878-just-place-night-out-signs-happier-times?frsc=dg%7Ce\">The Economist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist had a piece on Baghdad&#8217;s restaurant golden age: There&#8217;s not a lot to do these days in Baghdad so people go out to restaurants. It has led to about one new restaurant opening every three days \u2013 and few of them fail with profit margins over 50% being fairly common. Operating in Baghdad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/040816_0334_BaghdadHasA1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13893"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13896,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13893\/revisions\/13896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}