Mains, Beverages, and Snacks all well-repre-sented this time… A record 19 items in this edition of Fast Food Week! Including a couple of international Novelty items. And a remind-er that US Girl Scout Cookie Season is here! Buy/order early to get the ones you crave!Read More →
I’ve long thought there was something to this theory… And it seems I was on the right track. Primary research has found specific areas in the brain that store memories of sugar and fat – profoundly impacting food intake, and pos-sibly, obesity…Read More →
America’s retail giant has made significant promo noise announcing an update to its well-known wordmark and ‘spark’ logo. But critics are asking how significant the change is. And some are even asking, why did Wal-mart bother to fiddle it’s logo at all?Read More →
Starbuck’s new CEO, appointed last year, promised a major overhaul of the chain’s business model. That plan included rein-stating Starbuck’s ‘classic’ laid back atmo-sphere. Now, it appears the company is having second thoughts…Read More →
Researchers came up against a puzzling find-ing in recent studies of eating habits: It seems everyone prefers higher-Calorie foods, wheth-er they are overweight or obese or not. But it appears that conscious choices based on flavour are not involved…Read More →
Just when things were looking darkest for Canada’s most-food-insecure citizens, Toyota is donating $300,000 to Food Banks Canada under its dealer- and employee-driven Million Meals program. A grand example to Canada’s other major corporations!Read More →
It’s been a tumultuous couple of years for the annual US Girl Scout Cookie fundraising drive. New sales channels have been pilot tested. ‘Resellers’ have cashed in. New flavours have come and gone. And now, some ‘classics’ are being retired.Read More →
Call it invisible cheating. But it’s cheating, nevertheless! A CBC investigation has con-firmed a private sector probe that found Canadians have been overcharged consist-ently for meat by some supermarkets for who-knows-how-long!Read More →