1. Facebook
One business’s misfortune can be a boon for other operators. The dining services team at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pa., monitors social media for tips on shuttered restaurants. Earlier this year, the dining team wrote a post on the Facebook timeline of a recently closed local steakhouse, inviting its staff to apply to open positions at their operation. “We ended up hiring one catering supervisor and two on-call servers for our catering department,” says John Pasquarello, general manager for dining services.