Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 02-18-19 06:23 <=-
Nancy wrote --
always had goodies to give away and in thanks for helping them IWere they emblazoned with the company name....? ;)
would get pens, bite size candies, etc. For a couple of years
various companies were giving away thumb drives and I got a pile
of them I still use on a regular basis.
Most were.
I mean its advertising. :)
One I really liked was black and gold (from the Army) that matched
my uniform. :)
The vendors wanted to get rid of their goodies so they didn't haveMakes perfect sense... :)
to take it back to their business.
Its also a way for the company to judge the amount of traffic that
one booth had. The less the people took back the higher the foot
traffic the bean counters figured. :)
One year I got like six pounds of Starbucks coffee. Their coffeeI suppose that when it was made on campus, it wasn't being made quite
on campus was as bitter as all get out, but when I made it at home
it was fine.
as it should have been done.... or, perhaps, as one might do, to make
things less bitter....
Starbucks coffee has always tasted bitter to me and one reason for
them to sell flavourings to make the bad taste go away. :)
It also depends on the temp of the water. Using water that's too
hot releases acids in the beans that make it bitter.
We had a McDonald's whose coffee was always nasty and gave me
heartburn but another a few miles away was fine.
minimum of $10 to get out. They are charged the regular rateIf they hear that that charge for lost ticket is a minimum of $10,
(only 50 cents an hour) for the time they were in there.
does the ticket miraculously appear....? ;)
Maybe at some later date, but not at the attendants booth.
People would put them in their pocket, drop it somewhere in the car,
or just lose it along the way.
Then there were the ones trying to pull a fast one.
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