Tim Horton’s Raises Some Prices
The unrest at Tim Horton’s Canada persists. And, now, Horton’s head office – Restaurant Brands International – has decreed menu price hikes on top of the abiding friction between itself and a significant number of franchisees. To a neutral observer, it looks like RBI is cutting off its nose to spite its face…Read More →
Swiss Outlaw Boiling Lobsters Live
I think everybody who’s ever ordered a Lobster dinner at a restaurant, let alone prepared one at home, knows how to cook a Lobster. You stuff it into a big pot of boiling water. But, now, in Switzerland, animal rights people have pushed through a new law, mandating more-humane methods…Read More →
Fast Food Week!
The weather has abated here in the World’s Coldest National Capital and folks are getting out to feed their fast Food Food cravings after a week of downright arctic temperatures that kept many housebound. At the same time, the Holiday drought of Fast Food News has come to a merciful end…Read More →
Mediterranean Diet Better For Frail Elderly?
A new analytical study of a number of surveys on the health of elderly people suggests that physical frailty – common in older folks who are otherwise fit and mentally agile – may be ‘treatable’ through diet and nutrition – specifically by encouraging older folks to follow the so-called Mediterranean Diet…Read More →
Coke Feels Impact of new Favoured Waters
“Times change. We must Change with the times.” Or perish. That’s a lesson that the Coca Cola Company is acting on, after several years aggressive brand building by the upstart Flavoured Water sector. For the first time, Coke has made a major move in the competition’s direction…Read More →
Tim’s Franchisee War Escalates…
The ongoing dispute between Tim Horton’s Canada franchisees and their head office – now owned and run by Restaurant Brands International – got a fair bit nastier this week as franchisees cut employee benefits to maintain already slim profit margins, and politicians slammed franchisees…Read More →
Comfy, Cozy Scrambled Eggs…
We’ve just weathered a real, hard cold snap here in the World’s Coldest National Capital. I asked myself this morning what I wanted most for breakfast and one dish screamed its name above all the rest: Scrambled Eggs! There’s nothing else like ’em when you want to give yourself a little loving…Read More →
Sugar’s Evils Deeper Than ‘Empty Calories’?
There’s new opinion out that warns we may all in be worse danger than we think when we consume excess calories as Sugar. The author suggests that calorific sweeteners like Sugar, Corn Syrup, and related substances are contributing materially to the current Obesity and Type II Diabetes epidemics…Read More →