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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Tune in to Starbucks
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?
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?
Keep it lean: The QSR Interview with Raving Brands, Martin Sprock
Despite the ongoing success of Martin Sprocks Raving Brands, the company head shares a cubicle with three other people, flies coach, and stays two to a room on the road. He might be the company’s chief, but for Sprock it is all about teamwork.
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Speed of change… thinks about this…
“If it works, it’s obsolete?
Marshall McLuhan
Why ask why?
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
Dining out takes a (small) bite out of savings – Food – Food and Beverage – Food & Beverages – Personal Finance
Survey: Young adults eat out almost once a day
By Andrea Coombes, CBS.MarketWatch.com
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) — “Have access to take-out food, will eat it” sums up Americans’ dining habits these days.
Generation Y Americans, those age 16 to 27, eat out 24 times a month on average, according to the November survey of 1,000 consumers by Technomic, a Chicago-based market-research firm focused on the food industry…
Yum Brands to Open More Outlets in China
Yum Brands Inc., operator of the Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and KFC restaurant chains, plans to open 300 restaurants a year in China, its fastest-growing market.
Yum is focusing its expansion in Asia. China will overtake the U.S. in sales for Yum at some point, Chief Executive David Novak said.