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What is a Lunch Mob?

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We all eat lunch, and many of us proactively network to grow friendships and find new business. A Lunch Mob combines the two and is typically much less time consuming to plan and organize than a cash mob.

So, what is a Lunch Mob?

Simply put, a lunch mob is a group of people meeting at a local restaurant and each person paying for their own meal in order to support a local business. A lunch mob can easily be combined with other activities such as a social gathering, professional or dating speed networking or as a stop on a larger cash mob event.

Chamber of Commerce Lunch Mob

As a chamber event, a lunch mob is an informal lunch gathering at a member business. Those in attendance pay for their own meal. The benefits to a chamber of commerce because it’s a fun activity that focusses on connecting members without a lot of the formality of an evening networking event.

It’s also a boost to the local business that gets a lunchtime rush thanks to the chamber’s efforts. It may also introduce new customers to the restaurant. Some member businesses will offer specials just for the group.

Combined with speed networking, chamber members can get to know each other and still have time for a nice meal.

Why Cash Mob?

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Small business matters. Without locally owned independent business most communities wouldn’t survive. Cash Mobs are one powerful tool in a community-focused strategy to shine a light one one local business. A Cash Mob event at one local business will make other local businesses want to get involved. When a Cash Mob is produced well it will garner local media coverage. local resident interest in the cash mob process and in featured local businesses.

Why does small business matter to a community?

Small business supports community activities both directly and indirectly through sponsorship’s, donations and hiring local residents.

“Small businesses are central to creating jobs in our economy; they employ roughly one half of all Americans and account for about 60 percent of gross job creation, newer small businesses, those less than two years old, are especially important: Over the past 20 years, these start-up enterprises accounted for roughly one quarter of gross job creation even though they employed less than 10 percent of the workforce.” – Ben Bernanke

“Start-ups are responsible for all net job growth in the U.S. economy. During years of recession, net job losses grow at existing firms—those a year and older—while job creation at start-ups stays stable. Start-ups create an average of 3 million new jobs annually, all other ages of firms, including companies in their first full years of existence up to firms established two centuries ago, are net job destroyers, losing 1 million jobs net combined per year.” – Tim Kane, senior fellow at the Kauffman Foundation

If you care about your community help organize a Cash Mob. Support your local business s and shopkeepers and they’ll return the favor.