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Last Updated: Sunday, 28 May 2006, 04:25 GMT 05:25 UK

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My only goal is to have no goals. The goal, every time, is that film, that very moment.”

?Bernardo Bertolucci

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Today we are going for simplicity.

Lunch will be virtually on the beach overlooking the oyster beds. Crustacea and Grilled Seabass followed by a ‘Tarte Maisson’ is today’s treat.

Followed by a visit to the 12th century abbey & winery L?Abbeye de Valmagne

From the Abbey we shall cross Le Corbiers on our way to Touluse where we are having dinner at L?Emile on the famous Place St Georges.

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You sell service. At the heart of any successful restaurant operation is the soul of service. Customers walk in, drive through or pull up to our businesses dozens or hundreds of times a day. If those people are exactly the same when they leave, that means we’ve failed. “Product expertise can be duplicated,” says author Martha Rogers, “so any competitive advantage based on products eventually will go away. But customer expertise is competitively defendable, unique and permanent.”

More wisdom from Jim Sullivan

UK supermarket chain Tesco is introducing the Trim Trolley, a grocery cart that offers a workout while you shop. The shopper can choose the resistance level on their cart, thereby making pushing a cart feel like an uphill battle. The cart also has the technology to monitor the number of calories burned after any shopping workout.

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Shanghai Surprise II. Back in the 1940s, it was known as the “Paris of the East,” but today some are calling Shanghai, “The People’s Republic of Starbucks,” reports Veronica Gould Stoddart in USA Today. Consider this: In “the room where Mao founded the Chinese Communist Party in 1921,” is “now a yuppified entertainment complex of restored traditional houses called Xintiandi,” where “tourists, expats and moneyed Shanghainese, palming cellphones, pack its hot jazz clubs and cooler-than-cool eateries to dine on risotto of mud crab with black Chinese truffles.” Even more dramatic is the change in Shanghai’s skyline.