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Why are the numbers 1 through 12 printed on the wrappers of a Burger King whopper? Actually
the same digits appear on all Burger King sandwiches, not just burgers,
and they are all printed for the same reason: to make sure that the sandwiches
are fresh. The numbers correspond to the numbers on clock's face. After
a sandwich is cooked and wrapped, one of the twelve numbers is slashed
with a nontoxic grease pencil. But the slash refers not to the hour at
which the burger was cooked, but to where the minute hand of the clock
is at the point the sandwich is wrapped. For example, if a hamburger with
cheese is wrapped at ten minutes after the hour, the '2' is marked (because
the minute hand has just hit the 2).
During peak periods (in most locations, peak is lunch time hours, from noon till two), sandwiches are prepared continuously and will be sold to customers within a minute or two. During non-peak periods, food is prepared virtually to order based on previous sales demand at that hour, but a few of the most popular sandwiches, burgers are prepared in advance in order to expedite service.By the way, Burger King's new slogan is: @ BURGER KING, YOU GOT IT!™ Do you know how did "Dr Pepper" get its name? Here's an interesting trivia: What's your favorite soft-drink? Coke? Diet-Coke? Pepsi? Sprite? Fanta? or, Dr Pepper? Dr Pepper - A Love Story
Morrison hired Charles Alderton, a young English pharmacist, whose duties included tending the store's soda fountain. Alderton noticed the waning interest of his customers in the usual fruit-flavored soft drinks and decided to blend several fruit flavors himself. Alderton finally hit upon a concoction that satisfied Morrison and his taste buds. The new drink became very popular at the store. But what about a name for it? Morrison never forgot his thwarted romance and often spoke fondly of Dr.Pepper's daughter. Patrons of his soda fountain heard of the affair, and one of them jokingly suggested naming their new fountain drink after the Virginia doctor, thinking it would gain his favor. The new drink became known as Dr Pepper; it gained widespread favor. In fact Dr Pepper today is the oldest major soft drink brand (featured in National Food fair in 1904). Morrison made a fortune and in that sense wreaked some revenge on the real Dr.Charles Pepper. But did Morrison eventually marry Miss Pepper? No. Unfortunately not :-(
This write-up was submitted by two young readers of 'Let us know US' - Surabhi and Suvrat, 5th grade and 3rd grade respectively, from Itasca,IL. Interesting story about how Kelloggs, the world famous cereal was founded... Corn-flakes Born in Battle Creek
You know this? Good -> Better -> Best; Bread -> Butter -> Toast! When you
go to buy bread in the grocery store, have you ever wondered which is
the freshest, so you "squeeze" for freshness or softness. Did
you know that bread is delivered fresh to the stores five days a week?
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. And each day has a different
color twist tie. They are: Most of the
bread you'll find on U.S. supermarket shelves arrives housed in plastic
wrappers closed by colored twist tags or plastic tabs. The tabs serve
a purpose besides aiding in keeping the bread fresh once everyone in the
family is diving into the loaf -- their colors provide a quick visual
reference to the people whose job it is to recycle the stock by removing
older loaves while loading the shelves with fresh product. Bread is not
kept on the shelf for longer than a couple of days. it's those colored
twist tags that make this recycling of stock practical -- because of them,
the restocker has an easy time recognizing which loaves have to be taken
away.
Those tags assist mightily in your never getting stuck with an older loaf, even if you're not much of a bread squeezer. In the absence of the color cues, some of the older product might be overlooked by a harried clerk trying to read one tiny "Best Before" date after another. (By the by, some of these tags actually do have such dates printed on them, and in those cases the date does represent the date the bread is to be removed from the store, not the date it was baked on.) As it is, shoppers should never encounter more than two colors of tags on the shelf at any time for any one brand of bread: that of the most recent delivery and that of the one just before it. This will sometimes work out to being today's and yesterday's bakings, but there will generally be two days a week when no bread is delivered, thus a three-day spread will be represented by the two colors at stores that receive delivery only five times a week instead of seven. Is the color code quoted in the example applicable to every breadmaker's product? No, because there are different manufacturers out there, and each of them uses its own system -- there's no industry-wide standard. The code explained might or might not be the right one for the brand you're after. Also, the schedule quoted above (fresh bread delivered every day except Wednesday and Sunday) doesn't hold true in every area. Different stores can be on different rotations, and even within the same store some brands will be coming in five times a week, while others arrive seven days a week. Links of Interest:
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