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If you eat breakfast in the car, gobble lunch while working at your computer, and watch TV while cooking or eating dinner, you’ve got a lot of multitasking company.

About 62% of people in a nationally representative online survey say they are sometimes or often too busy to sit down to eat, and about nine out of 10 say they do other things while preparing meals. On top of that: 31% do not consistently wash their hands when switching tasks during meal preparation.

https://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2004-09-30-multitask-usat_x.htm

“Japan’s sixth largest gas station chain” — Jomo — is raking it in by encouraging its patrons to linger, reports Mariko Mikami in Business 2.0 (Oct 04). “Our objective is to make hanging around more fun,” says Yuihito Fujita, of Jomo. And more profitable: Over a three-month period ending in July, following a makeover of eight of its stations, “average monthly vehicle visits per station were up 22 percent over the previous year … driving a 15 percent sales increase” and triggering an 82 percent jump in per-station operating profits.
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