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“The restaurant business is Knopf also own an Allen first: a oriented business, it requires calls the most satisfying is
generally one of the chanciest children’s clothing store called many of the same talents as a “businessmen earning in the six
businesses to get into, that’s Kid’s Kloset. Their dream retail store, from your basic figures taking my advice,
just traditional. People feel it’s became a reality when their hard work and long hours to That’s a mountaintop ex-
a pretty easy business, but you husbands encouraged them to personalized service. perience for a little Polish girl
have to deal with transient per- pursu it, and a bank accepted “I am a hard worker...I love from Nebraska.”
sonnel, because once people their proposal. what I do. I look forward to get-
understand this business, they With retail experience behind ting up in the morning and com- 8188
tend to move around a lot. them, the partners secured ing to work, and the more pro-
says experience,
an airline
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State Comptroller Bob period. The check reflected a
Bullock Friday sent checks 15.22 percent increase from last
totaling $108.1 million in local year bringing the total
ssales tax to the 1,015 cities payments to date to
that levy the one-percent city $3,913,737.70.
tax. Wylie received a check for
Allen received $70,622.77 for $35,052.74 for this period which
is easier said than done in an in- I m not through yet. retail establishment) and com- before showing a profit,
creasingly cosmopolitan Allen. Perry Waller, owner of Allen munity involvement help over- “Too many people in small
“Even as late as 1970, I may Stationers, agrees that service come those obstacles, Waller business get discouraged too
have known everybody who is a priority in the world of advises. soon ... there is a misconception
came in here by their first name sma 1 business. - Wanda Lawrence, director of that everybody who runs a
... today I may know one in 10.” “You give people a service three Allen day care centers and business makes a lot of money.
There’s no substitute for ser- they want and satisfy their partner in two of them, echoes The don t realize there s a lot of
vice, declares Lynge, who adds needs. Honesty is big with many of the same business expense involved, Lawrence
that there’s still plenty of room small business; you can buy philosophies practiced by explains. .3
in Allen for small business, prices anywhere you want,” Lynge and Waller, including Despite the trials and tribula,
depending on what the business says Waller, who bought the of- the importance of visibility in tions entrepreneurs are forced
offers. fice supply store four yeas ago, the community and quality ser- to endure, most feel the rewards
with two decades of exoerience vice. outweigh the hardships.
“This being a bedroom com- haekinghim 5P1n1 "Quality counts, and word-of- Among those rewards are even-
munity, there’s a market for - mouth follows,” says Lawrence, tual financial security, a sense
service businesses such as lawn He cites cash flow, volume She warns prospective small of personal accomplishment
care and child care,” observes and community acceptance as business owners to expect to and the satisfaction of having
Lynge. typical problems faced by a operate from one to three years provided a needed service.
He says Allen’s growth has small business. Experience in
been “a most interesting pro- your field, business knowledge,
cess ... I’ve had my turn, but a strategic location (vital for a
plains Pardner’s general the problems encountered by a tures, she
shows a 26.09 percent increase
over last year. The total
payments to date total
$132,369.21.
restaurant began with plans for cellent cooperation from other Another obstacle en-
I all new businesses will fail a sandwich shop, which businesses and the chamber of countered by a fledgling travel
within the first four years of mushroomed into a full-blown commerce,” says Miller. agency is that of establishing
operation. Allen is home to restaurant. She says she and her partner clientele. “It’s a matter of word-
many young businesses whose “It was a business venture he had to learn the retail ropes of-mouth, and bringing them
fate remains to be seen, but thought Allen was ready for,” quickly. “We started out as a with you when you open,”
most seem to be thriving and 'McSwain adds. He notes that kindergartener, and now we’re LaCroix explains.
enjoying the challenge. small business is particularly getting close to getting into col- “Business doesn’t end when
McSwain attributes a recent munity establishing a local in- background, is essential when
increase in business to the identity and educating residents opening a travel agency,
restaurant’s newly attained li- on the benefits of shopping “You can’t come into this
quor license and club status, there rather than going to a business cold and be a success,
making Pardner’s the first club larger mall or out of town. nor does a love of the business
in Allen. “We’ve been well-received qualify you. I always say love of
He says Harper’s idea for a and had good response, and ex- people is number one.”
this period which is 12.41 per-
cent higher than last year. The
total payments for the year
total $254,816.33.
Fairview’s payment this
period was $2,298.76, a 9.96
percent increase over last year.
Total payments to date equal
$8,133.34.
Frisco received a check for
$39,576.49 which is an increase
of 18.72 percent from last year.
Total payments to date equal
$156,764.91.
Lucas received $1,385.12 for
this period which is down 2.35
percent from last year. 1986
payments to date total
$610,187.55.
A check for $1,276,291.13
was sent to Plano for this
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You’re also dealing with ninancing, found a location, blems there are, the more of a
perishable items and have to traveled to market and opened challenge I consider it,” says
keep a tight control over what’s their doors within a matter of LaCroix.
coming in and going out,” ex- months. They list as some of Unlike some business ven-
it the inconvenience of con- paying street assessments may
struction detours, the uncer- be prohibitive for today’s small
tainty of the economy or the businesses.
burdens of high overhead costs. ,
Ed Lynge, owner of Allen's 1 m afraid we may have set
oldest business, Allen Lumber our sights too hrgh for small
Company, says opening a businesses to come into Allen...
business in 1940, when his the big businesses and chains
father founded the lumber com- have made the mom and pop.
... .,c ~ 1 • i .1 businesses a dying breed, but
pany, was much simpler than I1, ., . ,
+;.01 . j that s the economics of
tting.up ptoday. growth,” he notes without bit-
fl here were no regulations ®
.L. +L, . D, • terness.
then, the town wasn t incor-
poi ated. If you owned a piece of Lynge’s memories of his
lard, you could open whatever years at Allen Lumber are fond
yoi wanted.” ones. He believes the key to a
things have changed, successful small business is
though. Lynge fears the ex- knowing people, although that
Entrepreneur
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