Independent restaurants are turning to an old-fashioned method to fill tables—barter.

As they struggle to keep customers and pay the monthly bills, restaurants are swapping food for services like oven-hood cleaning and pest control.

Bartering helps restaurants fill seats, reassuring prospective customers who might be turned off by the sight of a vacant eatery. It also attracts new customers when tradespeople bring friends along, reduces some costs, and helps retain employees who can’t scoop tips off empty tables.

It’s hardly a permanent fix for ailing restaurants, which still need cash to cover such expenses as rent, mortgages, taxes and utilities. But bartering is an especially useful tool for independent restaurants that, unlike some chains, lack access to corporate credit lines or cash.

You can read more when you click on “In Lean Times, Restaurants Barter For Trade Services – By Wall Street Journal”

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Check out how a company successfully uses barter through a barter exchange company.  It was reported on CBS News.

Do you have a skill, stuff, or time that you aren’t using well? Can you do something that someone would pay you cash for? If you do, you have something to trade.

Do you have stuff sitting around that you could trade? Maybe a couch or a bike or something? Do you spend a lot of time watching the TV that you could trade to get other things?

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Most of the small business owners I spoke to never thought of barter as a tool for building their business let alone join a barter exchange company.

They did not know that for a small membership fee and a minimal commission paid on each trade done, they will have access benefits such as:

• 300 (and still growing) local business with various products and services


• access to over 60 overseas exchanges with 250,000 members


• a team of Trade Consultants / Brokers to structure deals on their behalf

So how does a barter exchange company work?