Posts tagged “restaurants”
DT
Dave Thomas, the portly pitchman whose homespun ads built Wendy’s Old-Fashioned Hamburgers into one of the world’s most successful fast-food enterprises, died today of liver cancer. He was 69.
Marketing 101
I went to Jack in the Box last night and ordered a Sourdough Combo. (Yes, I wanted a free holiday ball.) “And can I get a small fry on the side?” … A modest request, right? “I’m sorry, there is no small. Would you like a medium fry?” <pause> “Fine.” Make simplicity a selling point.
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
Text Anomalies and the Waiters’ Characters, an essay on “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” by Nathan Kotas
People Can’t Drive
One of the reasons cell phones are such a hazard is that people hold them, keeping one of their hands from the wheel. That’s why many of the proposed laws ban hand-held cell phones. But that’s just a start. If holding a cell phone is dangerous, so is holding a hamburger. That’s why a law
Vegetable Slicer Thumb
Officials determined the thumb piece belonged to a cafeteria worker who had severed the top of her thumb in a vegetable slicer this week.
Web Services
Megnut mentioned one of those ‘net services a few days ago. The mylackey.com and askjeeves.com sites are nifty, to be sure, but I just found a place that is even more useful. While I was in San Diego this weekend Chris showed me Food.Com and I was astounded. What a wonderful web site! You enter
Sundae City
Amazing but True! I live only a few blocks from Skiff’s Sundae City.
Dentist
On having a nice day