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Global Gas Card Review – Is Global Gas Card A Legitimate Business Opportunity?

Why are so many people joining the Global Gas Card Opportunity? Is it even a legitimate business? In this article I will cut through all the hype and give you my up front honest opinion with the hope that you will have enough information to decide whether or not the Global Gas Card Service or business model is the right fit for you.

First Of All What Is The Global Gas Card Opportunity All About? Is It Really A Legitimate Opportunity?

Global Gas Card, AKA GGC, is a Legitimate Opportunity that helps to solve two important problems arising from the global economic crisis. Continue reading “Global Gas Card Review – Is Global Gas Card A Legitimate Business Opportunity?”

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10 Most Frequently Asked Questions About The Nutrisystem Diet

The Nutrisystem diet is a well-known weight loss meal delivery diet that focuses on comfort foods like chocolate ice cream, pasta, burgers and lasagna to help you lose weight.

You get breakfast, lunch, dinner and a snack every day – plus veggies and fruit that you can add in yourself.

Not sure about the Nutrisystem diet plan? This article will answer the most commonly asked questions people have about this popular diet. Continue reading “10 Most Frequently Asked Questions About The Nutrisystem Diet”

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What is a Food Writer?

The Incident

During a recent vacation trip when I was asked, “What do you do?” I casually answered, “I’m a food writer.”

“What’s a food writer?” the gentleman responded.

Not thinking for even a moment, I blurted out the obvious, “A food writer is a person who writes about food.” Reflecting a moment, I recovered adding more information on the kinds of articles I’d written and for what magazines. But later the episode gave me pause to stop and think of just how I could answer that question in the future. After all, how would you answer that question right now? Continue reading “What is a Food Writer?”

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Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream – How Did It All Start?

There is an ice cream stand located in almost every town. Ice cream has become very popular in America and many companies have made a fortune out of making the tasty dessert. One of the most famous companies is Ben and Jerry’s. Ben and Jerry’s started off small and grew into an American fortune company, now they have done it again by taking their wacky ice cream to countries all over the world.

The founders of the company are Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield. They met and become friends in middle school located in Long Island, New York. They moved to Vermont and completed a course in ice creaming from Penn State. For those who don’t know where Penn State is it is located in Pennsylvania. Before they were even known, they had seen a lot of the eastern coast and that helped them come up with some of their early designs.

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Reflections on 2020

I’m sure that many of us started this year toasting the new decade, excited and full of enthusiasm. This was going to be ‘our time’, full of promise and potential. Well, that certainly didn’t work out as anticipated!

And so, when for many of us everywhere has been closed or only available with limited, restricted access, it’s been over to us. Not dissimilar to a redundancy, an unexpected relationship breakdown, a serious health situation occurring. Those situations where your only choice is the way you deal with what’s being presented to you.

What are your reflections on this year? Continue reading “Reflections on 2020”

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6 Must-See Dallas-Fort Worth Shopping Malls

Some of my out-of-town friends ask me which of the DFW malls are the best to visit when they come in for a shopping weekend. That’s kind of like asking, “Which of your children do you love the most?”

I like them all.

It’s hard for me to choose, since they each have a particular atmosphere, unique combinations of merchants, and even architecture.

Yet my friends would be expecting me to answer their question and help them out. As their friend, I would do my best. So I’m going to do my best for you.

We looked at things like architecture, variety of merchants, number of perimeter stores, but I also considered the “WOW” factor. It’s about an experience, not just shopping. So here is our opinion of the 6 must-see shopping center malls of DFW; 3 in the Dallas area and 3 in the Fort Worth area, in no particular order: Continue reading “6 Must-See Dallas-Fort Worth Shopping Malls”

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Why So Many Restaurants Were Unprepared to Deal With The Pandemic – From a Marketing Point Of View

First of all, my heart goes out to all restaurant owners, I understand that the last year has been incredibly difficult.

That being said I have a few thoughts from a marketing perspective. Before the pandemic, my experience was I saw very few restaurants doing strategic long-term marketing planning.

Most were doing inconsistent, haphazard marketing. They had no marketing plan to fall back on during COVID_19.

For example, I dined in many restaurants before COVID_19 and I can’t remember one occasion where an attempt was made to capture my email address or cellphone number so they could encourage me to come back again and again. Far too many restaurants treat their customers like “one-night-stands”.

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3 Simple Tricks On How To Stop Stress Eating (This Helped Me GREATLY!)

One of the biggest reasons I ended up overweight was because I couldn’t stop stress eating! As soon as I encountered stress, I would immediately start craving all kinds of bad stuff! This didn’t help me any since I live in Philadelphia (think Philadelphia cheese steaks and Philadelphia pretzels), and there are plenty of quality delivery restaurants within a few mile radius of where I live (lol)!

The good news is that I was finally able to overcome stress eating… and down below I’m going to show you how I did it and I hope these tips can help you as well with overcoming this dangerous habit!

Quick Stress Buster

One of the things I learned in a stress and anxiety relief program is that you should always have some quick stress busting exercises to go to whenever you encounter stressful situations. Continue reading “3 Simple Tricks On How To Stop Stress Eating (This Helped Me GREATLY!)”

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Quizno’s Sandwich Company

Quizno’s is the second leading sub shop company today; Subway is the first leading shop. Quizno’s does have other competitors such as Blimpie’s and Jerry’s Subs; however, Subway is Quizno’s primary competitor. The Subway website reads, “Subway is the world’s largest submarine sandwich chain with more than 30,000 restaurants in 87 countries.” (Subway History 2009). Rebecca Steinfort, the Chief Marketing Officer for Quizno’s said, “Our main competition is Subway, which is an 800-pound gorilla” (York 2009). Subway began back in the 1960’s, according to the Subway official site page. The site reads that, Subway was started in New York by Fred DeLuca and Dr. Peter Buck; Subway has been in business for over forty-three years (Subway, 2009).

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Pros and Cons of Eating Nuts

Who says that small things can’t be special? At least, this is not the case with nuts. In fact, these small packages are powerhouses of healthy nutrients for your daily nutrition. Although they are super rich health foods, yet there are many myths related to them. Despite scientific claims and facts, many people still believe that consuming nuts can make you prone to unnecessary fats.

Contrary to these myths, nuts contain lots of unsaturated fats that are also touted as good fats. They have antioxidants, fibers, and proteins in abundance. You should eat them daily, though, in moderation. But if you are still skeptical about the same, we are providing the pros and cons related to nuts for your help.

Pros of Eating Nuts:

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