Shift your Shopping Passport

Shop Small and Shop Local this holiday season with a Shift your Shopping Passport. 

The Passport is full of savings and discounts at small, local, Chamber member businesses.  Pick up a passport at the Chamber office or one of the participating businesses and start shopping.  The Shift your Shopping Passports are valid from Small Business Saturday, November 25 through December 23.  Redeem your discounts and have your passport stamped.  After December 23 bring your stamped passport to the Chamber office and be entered into a grand prize drawing.  Each stamp enters you into the grand prize drawing The grand prize is a basket of items donated by the participating businesses.

For a list of participating businesses and the passport savings options click here.

Hi Scores Barcade & Grill Grand Opening & Ribbon Cutting

Join us on Wednesday, November 15 as we celebrate the grand opening and ribbon cutting of Hi Scores Barcade & Grill, 224 N. Main Street.
The celebration will feature happy hour drink specials all day, 2 for $20 meals including an appetizer or dessert and soft drinks, free arcade games and special activities for kids. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Hopewell Loudon Spanish Club and their trip to France, Spain and Germany in the
summer of 2018. Come for the 4:30 ribbon cutting and stay for a delicious meal as well as crafts and activities for kids and families-a coloring contest, 8-bit bead art, and a photobooth! There will also be video game tournaments for Super Smash Bros Brawl, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, Ultra Street Fighter 4, and Tekken 7!
Hi Scores Barcade and Grill LLC is a family friendly bar and grill located in downtown Fostoria next to the Level Up Games and More! They offer hand-pattied burgers and fresh-cut french fries along with a choice selection of sandwiches, subs, salads, desserts, and appetizers! Not only do they have a full service kitchen but there is also a full bar and arcade! The barcade area offers a varied assortment of draft, craft, and bottled beers along with top-shelf and house liquors for all your mixed drink and cocktail needs. Located in the barcade, soda shoppe, and dining room areas they have free wifi access and cable T.V. with dozens of FREE-TO-PLAY Arcade Cabinets and Gaming Consoles (NES, Sega, XBox 360, & more!). With weekly and daily specials on food and drink there is also Happy Hour 3pm – 6pm Monday through Saturday. They are open Monday through Thursday 11am – 11pm and Friday and Saturday 11am til 1am.

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Chamber Launches Shop Small, Shop Local Campaign

If you don’t shop local, we won’t have local!

Small businesses are the heart of our community.

For every dollar spent locally $2 to $3.50 circulate around the community, helping boosting our economy through taxes which help our schools, safety forces, parks and neighborhoods.  Statistics show that 90% of small business owners donate money to charity while 70% donate time & money.  They are invested in our community and our community needs to invest in them.

The Chamber is launching a campaign to help raise awareness of who and what the small businesses are in our community and to help drive business their way.  It is a grassroots social media campaign designed to show the community the faces behind our local small businesses-the people you see at the grocery store, at school sporting events, at church and on the street- the business and individuals supporting our community non-profits and United Way, sponsoring your kids little league team and riding on a float in the holiday parade. You will begin seeing posts on our social media platforms and on our Shop Small, Shop Local tab on our web site featuring a local small business owner holding a red sign that says, “I AM SMALL BUSINESS” with the #ShopFostoria and #ThinkFostoria.  When you see these posts, please share them.  They only have an impact if we all share it, build awareness and take action by shifting our shopping.

So as you travel around town, you will begin to see red signs like this

in the windows of small businesses who are actively participating in the campaign.  Stop in and let them know you’ve seen their sign and will be sharing it on Social Media.

For the business it is free to participate.  They can complete a form on the Chamber website, www.fostoriaohio.org and we will send them free printables with the Shop Small Shop Local logo as well as thank you cards they can hand to customers that contain the #.  Once the business signs on I will stop out, get their photo holding the sign and post on Social media.

Small business invest in our community, let’s invest in them!  Shop Small, Shop Local Fostoria.

Farm to Table Dinner Tickets on Sale Now

FOSTORIA,OH- The Fostoria Area Chamber of Commerce will host its first ever Farm to Table dinner.  The dinner, presented by Reineke Family Dealerships and Mr. and Mrs. Bill J. Bowling, will be held right on Main Street from 100 to 125 North Main Street and will be held Saturday, September 16 from 5:30-8:30 p.m.

The dinner will help kick off the Chamber’s Shop Small, Shop Local initiative and will feature locally sourced foods prepared by Birchaven and Independence House Executive Chef Timothy Cooper.

“We are very excited for this event as guests will be amazed they are actually dining on the street.  Thanks to the creative efforts of Linda Bowling and Paula Walter, the event decorators, guests will be transported into a fall themed dining experience,” said Sarah Stephens Krupp, Chamber Director.

“Fostoria has a strong agribusiness base and we thought a Farm to Table dinner celebrating the season’s harvest would be a great way to kick off our Shop Small, Shop Local campaign while highlighting our local farmers and agribusiness community”.  According to Stephens Krupp, the campaign aims to educate the community about the importance of shopping at small local business.  “Money spent at small local business not only keeps businesses operational in our community but it greatly improves our local economy.”

The event will also feature wines from Chateau Tabeau winery.  Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased by calling the Chamber office at 419-435-0846 or via the online registration site.