Wednesday Wanderings..

Just a few idle things to take away part of your Wednesday, some informative and interesting, and then a final almost rant on a couple of things..

Pork Fat Rules!

Jack in the Box has launched a bacon-flavored milk shake as part of its "Marry Bacon" campaign. The meaty-sounding beverage is made with Torani bacon-flavored syrup, making it safe for vegetarians as well as pork lovers, the company says….

Do we still have a JIB around here?

At Your Service…

Some factoids from an interesting article I found about food service entitled “Creating a Great Customer Experience--great service makes up for mediocre food every time. However, great food can never make up for poor service”

too true..
Some quoted stats about the impact of “service”:

“when you consider the reasons businesses lose customers, you realize how important service and hospitality really are,"

Those reasons include:
Death, 1 percent
Customer moves away, 3 percent
Customer is influenced by friends, 5 percent
Customer has been lured away by a competitor, 9 percent
Customer is dissatisfied with your product, 14 percent
Customer was turned away by the "attitude of indifference on the part of a company employee," 68 percent
"Sixty-eight percent of customers leave because of something that can be avoided by going back to the basics. Teach service, encourage it, edify it,".

 If you’re interested the whole article it’s here.

leaving the foodie world (and probably the informative part)..

Gimme....

When motoring about in the Fluttermobile or at home with TV off, I mostly listen to WETA (or sometimes WSCL) to get classical music to calm the psyche and avoid the usual drivel on the radio. Back (way back) when I was in college, there used to be something called “hell week” and it was associated with fraternities’ or sororities hazing young pledges and generally making their lives miserable for a while. Well, WETA has something equaling that, called “pledge week”. It’s when they beg the public to contribute to the station to “keep them on the air”. In fairness to them, I realize the need, but boy it is pure heck to listen to them. Two minutes of music and five minutes of chatter about how important we are, on and on. Sheer torture. I do “subscribe” to the station at a healthy level so don’t feel the need for extra contributions, but it is a bad couple of weeks.

Bowl fallout:

Even though the game is over, you still have to hear about it!! Endless replays, analyses, debates on the “ranking” of Eli in the panoply of quarterbacks, why this, why that, ad nauseum. And not only sports shows, now there are “people/access” type shows going over and over Mrs. Tom Brady’s stupid remarks after the game. I know she was probably worked up over the game, but just shut up, lady. Leave it on the field.

And then I caught a piece of an interview with Mario Manningham. I presume it was right after the game and he was pumped with the victory and rush of winning, and he is relatively a young man. I know he attended University of Michigan and hopefully attended a few classes, but apparently (IMHO) not the one on class. He was in an ill-fitting T-Shirt that probably said super bowl champs, and he had a hat on his head. I am not making this up, it was turned ninety degrees, such that the bill was sticking out the side of his head. On top of that it was those trendy hats that has a bill flat as a pancake. That’s bad enough. But then, I swear during the 3 or 4 minutes he was talking he used the word “man” about 400 times (and I’ll bet “you know” was in there too). For the sums of money these guys get they could at least respect the fans enough to look and speak civilly. Maybe I’m just old, or maybe I’m just old.

He certainly was NOT

DFD