"Cheap overheads and a limited menu," Kate says.
He said Polish businesses were realizing it might be more profitable to send their goods less to Western Europe and more to Russia, where they may reap an advantage because of geography, historical ties and cheaper overhead.
Conventional wisdom has held that the inherent superiority of NATO and American equipment and training would offset the numerical advantages Russia could accrue due to cheaper overhead and operational costs; the experience of the United States in Iraq, where M-1 main battle tanks cut through Iraqi T-72 tanks like a hot knife through butter only reinforced this perception.
He was encouraged by the book industry's ongoing migration into the digital space and its comparatively cheaper overheads.
More generally, location has become a huge factor in how people choose jobs, and for the less sexy companies out there based in far-flung suburbs that might mean cheaper overheads, it's become a false economy of sorts, as these same companies have found their locations to be a challenge when recruiting talent.
After the Great Recession, converting to an open plan allowed companies to put more employees in smaller spaces, making overhead cheaper.
He's got a host of regular customers; memorized orders go into bags as soon as he eyes a familiar face, and even if they don't buy, he shakes their hands with a "Hello, my friend!" Basic overhead is cheap: Khandker renews his license for fifty dollars every two years, and his boss takes care of the cart permit (also fifty dollars, renewable every two years).
The move is part of a growing trend in Silicon Valley to find cheaper space and lower overhead elsewhere.
Unlike earlier owners of Mount Weld, who planned to fully process the ore to metals, Lynas will export a semiprocessed material to China, where final extraction of the metallic elements will take place with cheaper labor and other overhead.
