menu engineering

by MeL on December 31, 2009

even the menu in restaurants can be engineered Gregg Rapp, Menu Engineer Rapp is a menu engineer. He helps restaurants maximize revenue by hacking common flaws in human decision-making. For example, by simply removing “$” signs from prices, people are (…)

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everyone’s in need of some form of repair

by MeL on December 29, 2009

at one time or another. At least that’s what i think. One song that I thought about at the end of the movie is John Mayer’s In Repair. Doctors fix their patients by putting chemicals into their body to re-establish (…)

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This time last year, I almost always had a map with me.

by MeL on December 23, 2009

Not because I’m always lost, but because I found good reasons to be always moving. it’s only a couple of footsteps from 2010. I was reading chapter two of a book I’ve gotten a few weeks ago when I came (…)

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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

by MeL on December 12, 2009

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village, though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse (…)

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dreaming dream

by MeL on December 10, 2009

More than a month since I last went jogging. i planned for around 10km today but i could hardly breathe after 6km. nevertheless, the cool evening breeze is refreshing..it felt good to sweat it out after all those paper-and-pen warfare. (…)

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