Archives for May 2016

Hat Creek Burger Company Coming to Lakeway: Can Good Deeds Make a Burger Taste Better?

Written by Tiffini Brock | May 3, 2016

You may have heard … Austin-based Hat Creek Burger Company will be opening a new location in the Lake Travis area later this fall.

And with so many restaurants popping up in the Lake Travis area, we wanted to find out what makes this burger joint stand out among the many places to nosh on a big ol’ juicy American favorite.

It turns out that founder and CEO Drew Gressett’s business philosophy and practices are two things that you might find very interesting and admirable.

Can good deeds make a burger taste better? You be the judge …

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Austin Salt Cave: Halotherapy and Salt Wellness Center Opens in Lakeway

Written by Mandy Spivey | May 2, 2016

When Lakeway local, Jack Cramer, starts to have allergy flare ups, he hits the salt cave.

He’s the owner and operator of the newest wellness center of its kind to open in the Lake Travis area, Austin Salt Cave, but the science behind salt caves goes back 200 years.

It was during the 19th century that Polish academics noticed that salt miners weren’t having the same negative health effects from being in the mines that other earth-dwelling professions seemed to have in large numbers.

As it turned out, not only were they healthier than miners of other minerals, but they were healthier than the general public, as well.

Science was starting to show the benefits of applying salt in a therapeutic way, and by the 1960s “Halotherapy” was a wellness technique that was catching on as a way to help alleviate the symptoms of asthma, skin conditions like eczema and psoriasis, and even general allergies.

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