Craft Beer Instead
The heck with craft soda… try craft beer instead. Even the waiters who deliver it to your table are better than your average servers. Better yet, the people who make it tend to have this love of food, too. Great Read More …
Category: food
Craft Soda
Literally, just one day after I commented on our restaurant, passing on the well known national brands for their own version of craft soda, I see this sign at Starbucks. I didn’t see it until I picked up my beverage Read More …
Co-Brands
Brands and products that go together. Co-brands… Coke and Sprite, right? Nope. Not here. Coke, and Sierra Mist. Wait. What? Bizarre mixed contracts. That’s what I think based on my experience as a buyer. Of course things have changed in ten Read More …
Hot Summer…Soup?
This has been one heck of a season. What goes well with a really hot summer…Soup? Yup, that’s the first thing that comes to mind…maybe and maybe not. Believe it or not, I was at a restaurant and on the Read More …
Bring It On Back
About a year (maybe 2 years) ago, I wrote a blog about farms – “No Farms No Food” was the general and simple topic. I like to think that in the time that has passed, there has been a lot Read More …
Why Coke?
It seems to me that there is a brand attack going on and I have to ask, why Coke? (and why now?) I have seen the “what happens to your body within 60 minutes of drinking a twelve ounce can Read More …
Coffeevolution
Coffeevolution is a new word I think that defines exactly the process that people go through as they age and change their coffee drinking habits. My kids like coffee… or rather they like what can probably be best described as Read More …
It’s a Hat
Children should be our inventors in all things. They just see things that we cannot, or more likely choose not to see. Anything that is round-ish or scooped – boom! It’s a hat. A few books = a step-stool. A Read More …
Never Closed
Most convenience stores are never closed. They are almost always open 24 hours a day. An original leader in the industry is 7-Eleven – in fact their name shared the hours they operated. They were the first to sell grocery Read More …
Floating Billboard
There is a first time for everything, right? Well, today is the first time I’ve ever seen this. Since I started the week with roadside observations, which lead to billboards in some way or another… I figured I’d share something Read More …