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A Breakfast Burger.

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USA Today

Not with lettuce and tomato, but with a fried egg and ketchup. Carl’s Jr., the fast-food chain that loves to thumb its nose at political correctness, this week will unveil the burger.

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The national trend toward lunch at breakfast is clear. About 12.5% of fast-food diners ordered burgers for breakfast in 2004, compared with 7.5% in 2003, reports Sandelman & Associates, a restaurant consulting firm. In trend-setting Southern California, 17.6% of fast-food breakfast eaters got burgers this year.

Bread Apeal

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Washington Post
A proliferating number of sandwich chains such as Potbelly Sandwich Works, Panera Bread, Corner Bakery and Cosi that offer such items as tuna and Swiss cheese on multigrain bread, a grilled Italian panini on rosemary-onion focaccia, or tandoori chicken with roasted red peppers and vinaigrette in a flat-bread pocket.

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Fit for shopping-.

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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.

Tune in to Starbucks

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Starbucks is getting together with XM Satellite Radio to create the Starbucks Hear Music channel. The Starbucks channel will debut this fall and by 2005 it is anticipated that Starbucks customers will be able to listen to the channel in more than 4,000 locations nationwide.

A new alternative to coffee?

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It seems that trendsetters across the US are crazy about Boba and have been haunting their local Chinatown to find this underground beverage. Otherwise known as tapioca, bubble or pearl tea, Boba is a tea/milk drink flavored with syrup and laden with tapioca balls that lurk on the bottom of your glass. The drink is basically cold, sweet tea with chewy, gelatinous balls on the bottom that you suck up with an oversize straw. [Read more…] about A new alternative to coffee?

Why ask why?

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https://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2004/12/why_ask_why.html

If your front line people are unable to answer a “why” question, what do you tell them to do?

Most bureaucracies don’t want the whys working their way up the chain. Most bureaucracies encourage their people to be the first and only line of defense. “That’s our policy.” “I’m sorry, but there’s nothing I can do about that.” “Insurance regulations, sir.” The goal is to get the customer (questioner) to go away.

To go away.

They want you to go away.

Does that make any sense at all? The single most efficient (and lowest cost) technique for improving your operations is answering the why questions! You should embrace these people, not send them away.

“You know, sir, I have no idea why you have to do that. But I can tell you that