While supermarkets try out self-check-out stations in an attempt to further reduce their staffing costs, some customers are trying out new creative ways to hoodwink the robot money-takers. And you wondered why those ‘self’ check-outs always have a human hovering close by, just in case…Read More →
Hardly a week goes by that we don’t see at least one online post about ‘What Not To Eat’ for a longer life, or a cleaner colon, or shinier hair. or whatever. In my view, it’s all nonsense. In my view, any eating regime that limits your dietary variety is unnatural, unhealthy and just a really bad idea…Read More →
McDonald’s is responding to calls from customers and activists to rid its menu of some questionable ingredients. It’s the Burger giant’s latest volley in a marketing war with its main competitors over whose food is the most acceptable to mainstream convenience consumers…Read More →
We’ve been hearing stories for years about non-motorists trying to use fast food drive-thrus, with various outcomes – none that proved satisfactory for the pedestrians and cyclists involved. Now, perhaps in response to calls from the car-less, McDonald’s is test-marketing a Walk-Thru lane…Read More →
I’ve been hearing a lot, lately, about proposed solutions to the eternal problem of getting Ketchup out of the bottle. In honour of the mid-summer long weekend and all the backyard and cottage-front BBQing that is taking place, I present a compendium of approaches to the conundrum…Read More →
You may recall the unseemly little fuss we made when it was announced that a leading Filipino take-out restaurant chain was planning to open its first Canadian outlet. Not a problem for me! I’d love to try some reasonably authentic Filipino food. But, now, a Canadian chain is fighting back!Read More →
Talk about unlikely linkages! Crazy cause-and-effect relationships! A new finding by restaurant industry analysts in the U.S. claims that the level of political unrest in a country or region may directly influence the balance of sales at different types of eateries. Pizza wins, hands down!Read More →
Long assailed as the last bastion of puritanical liquor laws, The Province of Ontario has recently made some bold moves in the other direction. First, it was allowing Beer sales at selected supermarkets. Now, the government liquor monopoly is offering online sales and wider selection…Read More →