Manhattan - Over 500 restaurants have benefited from themunicipal program to accelerate the processing of their permits, said yesterday in a statement municipal leaders.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Council Speaker Christine Quinn,reported that thanks to the “New Business Acceleration Team”launched in March 2010, new businesses shortened by two months of their license paperwork normally a six months.
“These two months are two months of wages and incomegenerated by each business,” said Quinn who encrypted in 546restaurants that have opened through this program, creating6.012 jobs, $ 9 million in taxes and $ 50 million in taxes sales.
“Helping new restaurants to open before is good for the wholecity because as soon as they open as soon as they create jobs,” said Bloomberg.
Quinn recalled that the program ”was conceived by the Council in response to a persistent problem denouncing the hospitality industry: the disproportionate amount of time it took to open anew business.”
In the program, each application for opening a restaurant is assigned to an administrator who ensures that the owners to efficiently navigate the system.
For example, what are the most time-consuming pre-openinginspections and these are now done by a coordinated team ofinspectors from the Department of Buildings, Fire, Environmentand other agencies.
According to authorities, 546 restaurants have opened through the “New Business Acceleration Team ‘, creating 6.012 jobs