The imaginative campaigners at SugarStacks have illustrated the amount of sugar in popular beverages, breakfast foods, snacks and desserts. Here is a popular staff drink, using 4 gm sugar cubes as a measurement. Diabetes anyone?
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Working for the community...or something
An inspiring Vision Statement (or is that a Mission Statement?) from the Butt Littering Trust:
"The Trust seeks to be Australia’s recognised leading organisation on butt littering reduction and provider of Butt-Free Solutions to reduce cigarette butt littering."
Yep, there's no end to the ways the smoking lobby will twist and turn to make itself a good citizen.
Reminds me of the time Philip Morris sponsored a local conference on domestic violence - when they were called out for spending more on publicising their good works than on the actual good works themselves!
How to trash your reputation, week after week...
The poo in the icecream at the Sydney pub horror story broke several weeks ago, after an incident on October 5.
It's now becoming a textbook case of how not to manage the issue. The pub was first in denial, ducking and weaving with their responses. Then a lab test showed that the accusations were true, but the management still seem to be intent on proving their innocence. Meanwhile their reputation goes further and further down the loo (sorry) - imagine what it would be like working there now!
This has gone way beyond who's right or wrong - it's time they got Sydney's very best 'issues management' expert on the job and gave them all the budget they ask for. One of those shadowy figures who advise private schools when they find something nasty happened in the dormitory. Just get it off the front page!
Update: signs of an agreement?
A Kids Menu designed to calm the parents
Clever wording at the top of the junior offering at the Mean Fiddler hotel:
"Our Kids Menu is designed with the happiness and health of your child in mind. All food is prepared fresh on the premises for your child's wellbeing. If you feel your child will eat their vegetables, we will be happy to provide a small portion of mixed vegetables complimentary."
The menu as such is nothing remarkable, but the reassurance for parents stands out...
Nagging with a smile
What is this? It's a ceramic ashtray in the shape of a human lung.
Something for the smoker's lounge - but would it be nicked, like most other quality fittings?
Track the cleanliness of restaurants
Expect more of this: CleanScores displays the 'grade' cards of a restaurant based on its most recent inspections. So far only in San Francisco, but it taps into two currents in human nature. We all want reassurance that where we visit is hygienic. AND people want the gossip on who failed the test.
With online restaurant ratings becoming more and more mainsteam, this is a logical addition.
From one of the 'worst':
Top 100 Foods To Improve Your Productivity
Here's a nice long list that seems to include just about everything. For example:
Asparagus: Cooked in a casserole or laid gracefully along a plate of lamb, asparagus is full of healthy benefits. A natural diuretic, asparagus combats bloating and PMS, while also protecting a new fetus as it develops inside the uterus.
Good material here for your menu or website's food page...
Pale pink or bright pink...
Actually, isn't 'shocking pink' the technical name for this colour?
As I get involved with publicity for the Dragons Abreast group in Australia and promote it on our website, its interesting to compare their gutsy, self-help approach with the more muted (glamorous?) work of the National Breast Cancer Foundation.
There's now a steady flow of great photos and videos for us to put on the Dragons Diary we've created - real people supporting each other. Very gratifying to be part of this...
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