Marketing Cow Features QR Code
A United Kingdom-based dairy farm spray painted a QR code on a Fresian cow. Scan the cow with your smartphone and you’re led to information about her bio and the dairy farm.
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Opportunity Is Knocking: uZAPPit Loyalty Tags
As a 28 year, innovative manufacturer and importer in the apparel, corporate and promotional products business, Pacific Emblem Co. has a cool way to market your business. By marrying the QR code (or as the company calls it – “their Smart Code”) together with their full-color printed Smart Tags, they have created the uZAPPit™ Smart Tag. The [...]
Made in the U.S.A : Magazine Rack With Handle
The Plexi-Craft company that manufactures the clever magazine rack is headquartered in Long Island City, New York.
Open Kitchen Concept Is Booming
For maximum transparency, restaurants ranging from fast-casual superstar Chipotle, to indie eateries favored by foodies, to massive fast-food chains like Domino’s are all turning to the open kitchen. The open kitchen trend seems to have been born in big cities such as New York, where chefs cooked within view of diners largely due to space [...]
Business Boom: The Greene Turtle Is On The Move
The Greene Turtle has finalized a deal to bring 10 of its casual dining/sports bar locations to Long Island (both counties), the first anywhere in New York and anywhere, in fact, outside its Mid-Atlantic base. The sites will be operated by new Greene Turtle franchisees John and Jeff Froccaro, who operate about three dozen Burger King [...]
First Lady Dedicated to Helping Our Military Heroes
VetFran Committee Vice Chair Joe Lindenmayer of TSS Photography and The Grounds Guy franchisee Rick Santo joined First Lady Michelle Obama as she addressed roughly 700 attendees at Mayport Naval Base in Jacksonville, FL. The First Lady said the Joining Forces goal of hiring 100,000 Veterans by 2014 was surpassed with nearly 2,000 companies combining [...]
Bacon Is Big
The bacon trend began around 2007, when better pork was appearing in restaurants, said Kara Nielsen, who studies trends at CCD Innovation, a culinary consulting firm in San Francisco. “It trickled up to groceries. They started getting more natural pork supplies,” Nielsen said. “ And this new resource kicked off an interest in using the [...]
Applebee’s Offers Late Night Fare & Entertainment
For the past few years, Applebee’s has quietly been experimenting with a late-night bar and club scene at restaurants around the country. Some offer karaoke and trivia nights. Others have fashioned themselves into nightclubs where patrons can gobble spinach and artichoke dip under the Day-Glo beauty of black lights. In late August, the restaurant chain [...]
Economic Census Forms Coming to America’s Small Biz
In November and December, more than 4 million American businesses will receive 2012 Economic Census forms. Responses to the questionnaire are required by law (Title 13, U.S. Code), to be returned by February 12, 2013. Every 5 years, the Economic Census develops a comprehensive portrait of American business, from the national to the local level. Timely [...]
McDonald’s Testing PayPal In France
PayPal is in the early stages of what may be a blockbuster mobile payments deal with McDonald’s Corp, the world’s biggest hamburger chain. McDonald’s is testing a mobile payments service featuring PayPal at 30 of its restaurants in France. Earlier this year, McDonald’s ran demonstrations of a broader PayPal mobile payments service at its franchisee [...]
Made In The U.S.A. 1941 Replica Brushed-Chrome Lighter
Zippo manufactures the iconic lighter in Bradford, Pennsylvania.
Military Vet Expects to Make $500k This Year As Franchisee
Tom Perez spent a decade as a police officer in the Navy, serving in four tours in Iraq, working his way up to supervisor of the police unit, earning numerous medals and getting a business degree. But after he was honorably discharged from the military in late 2011, he applied for more than 100 police [...]
