Katamari Company

A summary of the running loss of local restaurants to deep-pocketed private equity and national chains.

Technics

Site is built with Jekyll and served with GitHub Pages.

Requirements

• Ruby 2.5.3
• Bundler

Development

After checking out the repo, run git config core.hooksPath .githooks to enable automatic markdown formatting. Alternatively run yarn format to manually format the Markdown files.

To run in development locally:

yarn && bundle install
yarn serve

Run yarn format to manually format the Markdown files.

Contributing

Add an entry to _data/companies.yml, make sure you fill out the following fields:

example:
  name: "Example, Inc." # Company failed/bought/sold/acquired
  date: 2019-11-26 00:00:00 # Date of sale
  buyer: "Shell Corporation, Inc." # Name of new owning company
  url: https://example.com # URL to press release/more info
  notes: "Some notes" # Relevant notes (keep it less than 512 chars)

Test it locally, then open a PR.

License

MIT