This summer’s historic drought is bound to yield rising prices at the supermarket. The awful harvest of corn and soybeans is causing their prices to soar, and since they’re utilized in so many other foods—cereal, soda, feed for …
Food and Beverage Industry
Hooters’ Big Experiment: New Menu, New Decor and a New Target Audience
Over the past several years, Hooters’ sales have been on the decline. So the “breastaurant” is now undergoing a three-to-five-year revitalization plan, which will include an updated menu, renovated restaurants and an attempt to …
From Chick-fil-A to Amazon, Why Companies Take a Stand on Social Issues
Last week, billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his wife MacKenzie pledged $2.5 million to help pass a referendum on same-sex marriage in Washington State. With the donation, the Bezoses became the largest public financial …
One Company Will Soon Control Half of the U.S. Beer Market
By next year, beer bought in the U.S. may be more likely to come from a single company than from all the rest combined. That could be bad news for America’s beer drinkers — potentially higher prices for some of the U.S.’s …
Need to Brainstorm? Head to Starbucks
A clever and, yes, creative new study suggests that moderate background noise is a better spur to innovative thinking than the sound of silence.
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz Offers the Economy a Double Espresso
Starbucks has bounced back from the recession in a big way. Now the company is trying to figure out how it can do well for its shareholders and do good in the community at the same time.
Book Review: What America’s Banana King Teaches Us About Capitalism
Americans puzzling over the role of today’s powerful corporations — Bain Capital, Goldman Sachs, Google — may profit from considering the example of the United Fruit Company.
It seems almost quaint to think that a …
A New Sports Drink Scores By Winning Over Soccer Fans (And Soccer Moms)
Among soccer-crazed Seattleites, the hottest ticket in town isn’t at a Sounders game when LA Galaxy comes to town. It’s a “Copa Golazo” in a converted BMW dealership with a 75-foot by 25-foot indoor soccer field …
The Top Ten Fastest-Growing Industries in America
Study: How Supersizing Makes Us Feel More Important
Beware of Falling Trees: The Best and Worst Jobs in America
Lumberjacks are celebrated in folklore (hello, Paul Bunyan) and in song (hello Monty Python), but as a career choice lumberjacking leaves something to be desired. At least according to the Jobs Rated 2012 report released earlier …
A Booze of One’s Own: The Micro Distillery Boom
What’s that you say? Your product is locally produced, hand-crafted and highly intoxicating? Please, just take my wallet.
Micro-distilleries—also called craft distilleries—make relative thimblefuls of spirits compared to …