Breakfast is a big meal here at Rancho Deluxe. Sometimes we have it more than once a day. So imagine our delight when we received a Magic Pancake Puff pan as a gift! No more plain old pancakes for us, no sir. We’ve got PUFFS! Well, actually, what we’ve got is smart marketing. Continue reading
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Last night was the finale of Top Chef. If you’re watching the show but didn’t catch last night’s program, quit reading because the rest of this post is about the business lessons we can learn from the winners and losers and you might not know who they are yet. But for those of you who do know (or don’t care), there are a few important takeaways from how the judging went down. The three finalists – Carla, Hosea, and Stefan – were dramatically different personalities and it was those personalities as much as their cooking skills that determined the outcome. Continue reading
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I was watching Anthony Bourdain the other night on the Travel Channel. For you foodies out there, his No Reservations is consistently one of the best of the “foodologues” out there. This week, his program was about disappearing NYC restaurants. If you haven’t seen the show, I’d urge you to find it and not just for the food. You see, for those of us who grew up in and around NYC, the real food served in these places is going the way that the real Times Square did. Continue reading
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