Business Buzz: Pounds owners take out permit for a restaurant on Broadway, and more of the latest business news

FARGO — If

city building permit records

are any indication, Pounds is dialing in on a new location along Broadway in downtown Fargo.

The restaurant known for its unique takes on dishes like mac and cheese applied for and received a building permit for a fit-up at 6 Broadway, which is located just south of the Old Broadway. The location previously housed Antiques on Broadway, which closed in 2014, the Revland Gallery and Cultural Events Center, which closed in 2018, and served as a space for the Fargo-Moorhead Community Theatre.

The permit, which is titled “Pounds Fit-Up,” calls for a renovation which would turn the main level of the building into a restaurant and the lower level into cooler storage. Costs are listed at $800,000 and the total construction area is marked at 6,390 square-feet.

The Forum made several attempts to contact Pounds ownership regarding the project, however a response was not received. When reached via email, Luther Holm, the general contractor for the project, informed The Forum that Pounds owners were not ready to publicly discuss the project.

Pounds opened at 612 1st Ave. N. in June 2015. The business

garnered national notoriety when Guy Fieri visited

in 2020. Fieri praised the restaurant’s Barbecue Porker mac and cheese calling it “dynamite” on air.

The Fargo Moorhead West Fargo Chamber of Commerce announced Tuesday, Feb. 21, it will soon move from its current office within the Hjemkomst Center in Moorhead to a temporary office location within the Cass County Electric Cooperative building at 4100 32nd Ave. S. in Fargo.

The Chamber has operated as a merged organization serving the entire Fargo-Moorhead region since 1998. With over 1,980 members now, the Chamber’s growing reach, impact, initiatives and goals require a larger physical location, according to a Chamber press release.

“Let me begin by saying, the Chamber is extremely grateful to the city of Moorhead for their support and continued partnership,” Chamber President & CEO Shannon Full said in a statement. “The need for the Chamber to relocate is due to the great progress we are making as a region, and our need for a larger space as we increase our capacity.”

After sending out a formal RFP in November of 2021 regarding the Chamber’s need to identify or build a new permanent location,

the Chamber selected the proposal to co-locate on the same property as the FM Convention and Visitors Bureau

(FMCVB) to build a Center for Business and Commerce. The Chamber continues to work on this project and will be entering the next phases, including vetting the project with donors and a formal capital campaign.

When it comes to workplace jargon, one man’s “synergy,” is another man’s “sus.”

Especially when it comes to different age groups.

Generation Z — defined as those born between 1997 and 2012 — is bringing its own brand of communication into the workplace.

And as conversations keep moving more to online and text-driven avenues, Gen Z’s digital natives use a communication style which is causing some confusion among older workers and even millennials.

A recent Washington Post story illustrated this by sharing a true story of how Gen-Z (aka “zoomers,”) workers interpret common workplace phrases differently, while also adding a lexicon all their own.

In the story, a young woman and her peers giggled after receiving an email that several colleagues would be “out of pocket.”

To the older workers, that phrase means those employees won’t be available. But to the younger employees, it meant they were doing something crazy or inappropriate.

While older employees tend to use metaphors in their work jargon (military, sports, and more), zoomers are more likely to use the terminology that permeates TikTok and younger forms of social media.

So instead of “boots on the ground,” or “reinvent the wheel,” you might hear unfamiliar phrases like, “You slayed it” (a good thing) or “I am ded” (also a good thing).

The graphic here, based on a survey of 1,000 people by Preply, shows the top 10 words or phrases you are most likely to hear or read from your zoomer colleagues.

A warning: Just because some of these phrases are supposed to be positive, doesn’t mean they are free of irony. So if a Gen Z-er suggests your office party is going to be “lit,” it might not be a good thing.

Oh, and brush up on your emoji knowledge too. Send a text message which ends with a period to your younger employees and they might actually read that as passive-aggressive, cold or formal. The same goes with the barely smiling smiley-face emoji. And don’t even get us started on what can go wrong with ellipsis …