Food
There’re a lot of dishonest business owners out there. We’re not talking about a small family-owned restaurant. We’re talking about multi-billion dollar revenue fast food chain such as Subway Restaurants. Business has been bad that while Subway opened 911 new locations in the U.S. in 2015, it closed 877. Its revenue dropped 4.3% to US$1.11 […]
... written on Mar 02 2017One very interesting fact about 2016 presidential election is the excessive involvement in politics by business organizations or individuals who are not supposed to. Besides fulltime politicians, it appears individuals, organizations and agencies somehow found themselves indulge in politics – teachers, Hollywood celebrities, spy agencies and billionaires. Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is one of many […]
... written on Feb 27 2017Malaysia is perhaps the only Muslim-country in the world that has a great blueprint to “halalize” everything, except its currency note. A Saudi wannabe, the country had declared Jihad (holy war) on Cadbury over pork-laced chocolate, which turned out to be a false allegation. It had launched the first halal airline – Rayani Air – […]
... written on Jan 03 2017Who’s the most powerful person in the United States of America? We were told that the president was the man but based on recent bombshells unleashed by WikiLeaks, we aren’t sure anymore. Based on email leaks from Podesta files dump so far, we roughly know who will be the most powerful person in the U.S., […]
... written on Oct 25 2016Hamburger and hotdog have been the de-facto fast food for as long as one can remember. Globally, fast food generates revenue of over US$570 billion. In the United States alone, fast food revenue was a whopping US$200 billion in 2015 – a mind-boggling growth since the 1970 revenue of US$6 billion. While everyone knows […]
... written on Sep 21 2016Consumers expect their food and beverage to look the same as advertised. However, instead of “What You See Is What You Get”, consumers often feel cheated by the final product. McDonald’s is a classic example where its hamburgers look extremely different than they do in promotional images. The reason: multi-billion-dollar fast food restaurants engage […]
... written on Aug 25 2016Roughly 35,000 crossed the border on Saturday. Another 88,000 did the same on Sunday. Some had travelled in chartered buses from cities 10 hours away. Their mission: to buy food. What they have back home in their apartment is a fridge covered with souvenir magnets from vacations abroad, but no food. So when the […]
... written on Jul 19 2016You’ve read about KFC chickens with 6 wings and 8 legs but you might rubbish it as merely rumours. You might even laugh off such KFC-bred mutant chickens as one-off case of accident genetically modified chicken. But something quite yucky seemed to have consistently occurred at KFC, until it was exposed by undercover researcher. As […]
... written on Apr 25 2016Have you heard of the bizarre story about China producing fake eggs? If you have, do you really believe it can be done, or was it economically feasible to do so? The news about fake eggs is not something new but do you know that fake eggs first appeared almost 20 years ago in the […]
... written on Mar 28 2016When you need fast bucks temporary, you normally go for part-time jobs such as flipping burgers at McDonald’s or a pizza delivery boy / girl. Soon, such jobs may be out of reach because the replacement can do a better job with zero pay. Yes, we’re talking about robots snatching one of many jobs that […]
... written on Mar 18 2016
