Jim McTague uses restaurant metrics as recession indicators. A waitress reports customers "disappeared" in East Petersburg, and a popular 16-chain brewery declared sudden bankruptcy.
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 27 September 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Building a coffee business? |
| 0:02.0 | Serving the best Americano in town is up to you. |
| 0:04.0 | But winning back time and growing your business, |
| 0:06.0 | leave that to sum-up. |
| 0:07.0 | Take orders and payments anywhere with the new SumUp terminal. |
| 0:10.0 | Turn occasional customers into regulars with a free loyalty program. |
| 0:13.0 | And with the SumUp point of sale system, |
| 0:15.0 | you'll always know when you're running low on your best-selling blends. |
| 0:18.0 | Visit sumup.co.uk to learn more. |
| 0:32.1 | This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batchelor to Jim McTag reporting from the Lancaster County of Pennsylvania, the best county in the state, especially watching the future economy, the present economy, and remains of |
| 0:39.6 | the past economy from Lancaster. Jim, a very good evening to you. We begin immediately with your |
| 0:45.0 | report on the data centers that are planned for Lancaster County, two, taking over the grounds |
| 0:51.8 | of the former R.R. Donnelly book printers, now to be converted |
| 0:56.0 | into massive data centers for the needs of artificial intelligence. You tell me, one is |
| 1:02.4 | started construction or detonation or destruction. Where is it? And then some details about it. |
| 1:09.6 | Good evening to you, Jim. |
| 1:12.3 | Good evening, John. |
| 1:14.5 | Yeah, the first one is a smaller property. |
| 1:17.3 | It's in Lancaster City and an industrial park. |
| 1:24.5 | And they're demolishing three quarters of the building to build a new structure to house a data center. |
| 1:29.1 | They expect the construction to be completed and the plant to be operational by the summer of 2027, assuming no major delays. They haven't really announced any plans for the |
| 1:38.4 | larger property yet. So, you know, maybe they're not going to put all their eggs in one basket at this point. |
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