The meat eater’s nightmare. Share this with your vegan and vegetarian friends…
From humorous songster Dana Lyons, composer of the hilarious “I’d Go Anywhere To Fight For Oil To Lubricate the Red White & Blue.”
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Cows With Guns
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012The Tug of War for… Kitchen Grease?
Thursday, March 15th, 2012
It may be truer than ever that “grease” is the word.
In the old days, restaurants paid rendering companies to haul away their used cooking oil and grease.
Now the push for non-petroleum fuels has firms like VA-based Greenlight Biofuels paying restaurants for their leftovers. The price of “yellow grease” that used to be recycled into pet food and livestock feed has risen to over $2. The result is that renderers and biofuels companies are finding themselves in legal battles as they try to hold onto clients. Greenlight even found itself the subject of a police complaint (as well as a lawsuit) alleging they’d “stolen” the equipment of a competitor after restaurateurs asked them company to take over their grease disposal contracts.
Tony Soprano, are you listening? Brings new meaning to the term “grease gun.”
In Other Marketing News
- Kraft has found its Wheat Thins are less-likely to be eaten with a topping, so they are promoting them as salty snacks and not crackers.
- With conventional grocery marketing rapidly switching over to digital applications, Winn-Dixie will let Smartphone users create and manage shopping lists through a new app. The app will also find the closest Winn-Dixie store, and access sales & specials.
- With ethnic-targeted marketing, especially among Hispanics, the new rage, the results of a new study[1] should warm the cockles of marketers’ hearts: Hispanics reportedly use the Internet as their primary source of information about products & services. What’s more, unlike many consumers who resist online ads, the group is interested in technologies that provide coupons, demonstrations and other shopping assistance.
- With the rise of “craft” beers, the question of what qualifies as “small” has been settled by the board of directors at The Brewers Association. In the past, “craft brewer” was limited to breweries producing no more than 2MM barrels annually, but that ceiling has been raised to 6MM.
A Little T&A With That Latte?
Wednesday, January 4th, 2012What’s with Washington State and skimpy-clad baristas?
So-called “sexpresso” chains that pedal a little T&A with their coffees are “busting out all over there.” Baristas Coffee Co. Inc. in Kent, WA and Cowgirls Espresso of Arlington, WA are looking to expand with bikini- and theme-costume-wearing female employees, along with selling a large line of branded merchandise. Of course, there’s a tawdry side to the trend: Grab-N-Go Espresso in Everett, WA was raided last year by police who claimed five baristas there were going beyond just shaking their booty by peddling a little more than a cup of Joe.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Thursday, November 24th, 2011Today is Thanksgiving. Enjoy! Regular posts will resume tomorrow.
No (Dead) Animals Were Harmed in the Making of this Beer
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011
Scottish brewer BrewDog is marketing what it claims to be the world’s strongest and most-expensive beer in dead animals. The End of History[1] beer has a 55% ABV alcohol content, and the dozen 330ml bottles offered so far sell for £500 each. Cleverly (if grossly) packed in seven stuffed stoats, four squirrels and a hare, the brew is made by a freezing technique that separates out the water and concentrates the punch. But the process is repeated dozens of times, requiring several hundred liters of conventional beer to produce one bottle.
[1] Named for a work by philosopher Francis Fukuyama.
A Little Humor
Tuesday, August 9th, 2011This has nothing to do with the food business, and isn’t safe for work if you have the audio on, but it’s hilarious and probably reflects how 99% of y’all feel about texters.
You Gotta Be &%#@ing Kidding Me….
Tuesday, July 5th, 2011World Food News
Monday, June 20th, 2011
- Saturday Night Live lampooned the sales model for Girl Scout Cookies, saying they should be available in stores (see clip above). “How long is this exclusive sales contract going to last where they only sell the cookies through a weird child army in tablecloth dresses? You know, according to the Girl Scouts’ website, you cannot buy Girl Scout Cookies online. Do you know what you can buy online? Everything. You can buy everything online.” Another good line: “Girl Scouts I don’t mean to get on your case but you should take it as a bad sign that in your entire 93-year history no one has copied your business model. No one has said, “You know how we should sell our product? A bunch of little girls in sashes and then everyone can buy them from them as long as they work in the same office as one of their moms.”
- Taco Bell (parent Yum! Brand Inc.) has opened its first unit in Bangalore, India.
- In the same vein, McDonald’s will put $415MM into its operations in Asia, Africa and the Middle East this year, with South Korea in for an especially intensive expansion program. The company tracks China’s “informal eating out” market at $300bn annually and growing at 10% (the US market in contrast is growing a mere 2-3%). With that opportunity in mind, McDonald’s has opened its first Hamburger University in mainland China in Shanghai to train managers in an effort to attract and retain top Chinese employees. The $250MM facility will emphasize how to run the restaurants, not cook. The chain has 60,000 employees in 1,100 restaurants, with 2,000 more outlets planned by 2015.
It’s Tough Being a Mom
Wednesday, June 1st, 2011“Obama” Pitches KFC in China
Monday, February 14th, 2011In honor of Valentine’s Day, we thought to have a little fun. KFC has bet its future on China, and these funny commercials show what it’s up to:
Hey, this space can’t JUST be about serious $#%&.
KFC has said it will pull the ads, but the horse seems to be out of the barn.
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