Marketplace

While there are plenty of other places in Ann Arbor to get pizza and burgers, James Schayes, who opened U Pizza & Burgers last August, didn’t run with the pack. Though you could get a regulation pepperoni and mushroom...

Big Boy, both statue and restaurant chain, are American icons. So’s the image of America as a great melting pot. And icon meets icon at Ann Arbor’s Zeeb Road Big Boy, one of only two in the company’s national...

In the depths of a decade-long Michigan recession, a Sturgis company called Great Lakes Chocolate & Coffee managed not only to find the key to a successful coffee shop but to parlay it into four locations scattered across...

A number of Ann Arborites tap maple trees each spring. Bella Sherman, however, may be the only one to harvest “birch juice”—a delicacy in Russia, Ukraine, and a few other northern countries. Sherman, a native of...

Wireless Toyz’s loss was Debbie Peterson’s gain. Wireless Toyz sold Verizon products and services on the corner of Washington and Fourth Avenue for fourteen years, until Verizon changed its corporate policy–if...

Undergraduates like to live in a cashless society, and when the new Subway opened at the corner of Washington and Division with a nonperforming credit card reader, a less-experienced franchise owner might have had a meltdown....

Founder Margaret Brusher remembers the Ann Arbor Antiques Market at its peak. “We had shows from April through November–that was the standard for decades–and we’d have 500 dealers, and attendance was...

Get Your Game On owner Alex Horvath liked his old space on Packard a few doors down from the Blue Front party store just fine, but he got tired of people walking in every day who’d never known they were there. “Four...

Motorcycles go faster than riding mowers, but mechanically they’re not that different. “Even the sizes are equivalent,” says Dan Weingartz. So when his family opened its fifth Weingartz outdoor power equipment...

On April 2nd, Sumi and Swaroop Bhojani had a festive, merry ribbon-cutting ceremony to launch their Hut-K Chaats, in the former Bombay Grocery (Bombay moved a few doors west last year). The brand-new restaurant was bursting with...