Journal

Thursday, January 11th, 2024

Top 3 Business Needs for the Summer of 2024

1. Drywall repair including mudding and sanding and patching holes in the wall and other damaged areas that affects less than a ¼ sheet of full drywall (most valued)

2. Maintenance and cleaning of short-term rental spaces, including AirBnB and VRBO listed properties

3. Cat-sitting in their own home and the cat stays in the place where they are happy and comfortable and the cat-sitter comes to the house or apartment or resort or hotel on a daily basis and tops up the cat’s food and cleans the litterbox and entertains the cat for a brief while and this is all happening sometime during the afternoon or evening. The current consumer budget price for cat-sitting is: $31.00 U.S. Dollars (USD) per day.

This week’s most common question and requested statistic from the depths of data science:

What is the return on investment (R.O.I.) for taste-sampling small portions of food or snacks or beverages at grocery stores and convenience stores? In other words, if a grocery store or convenience store offers an in-store customer a small and ready-to-eat free sample of a new brand of cookie or an individual portion of a newly released gummy fruit snack as a part of a well managed and dedicated taste-sampling program, what difference does it make? Overall and over time does the store make more money back in the end for doing this because customers like to try things before they buy them and because the program helps encourage customer loyalty and satisfaction and it also because the program brings new customers into the store who might spend some money? For every $1.00 USD spent on a taste-sampling program, the return on investment is $1008.56 USD for the lifetime of the store.

Top 21 all-time favorite buffet menu entrée items that are made ready-to-serve:

  1. Salisbury steak (most popular)
  2. Prime rib roast
  3. Ribeye roast
  4. Chicken fried rice with peas and carrots
  5. Egg rolls made with wonton wrappers
  6. Chicken souvlaki
  7. Garlic beef in black bean sauce with broccoli
  8. Crispy barbecue chicken wings
  9. Jalapeño poppers
  10. Moo shu pork
  11. Creamed corn
  12. Potatoes au gratin
  13. Shrimp skewered kabobs with green pepper and red onion
  14. Three cheese macaroni
  15. Scrambled eggs
  16. Spaghetti in meat sauce with meatballs
  17. Halibut fillets
  18. Lime gelatin mandarin orange salad topped with whipped cream and maraschino cherries
  19. Garlic mashed potatoes
  20. Lobster tails in garlic butter
  21. Crab legs in garlic butter

Presented here in a search engine optimized format, these are the top 9 all-time favorite buffet menu dessert items that are made ready-to-serve:

  1. Lemon chiffon pie cake (most popular)
  2. Cherry cheesecake with a crushed graham cracker crust
  3. Crème de leches with caramel sauce topping
  4. Red velvet cake
  5. Vanilla pudding cupcakes with vanilla frosting and rainbow sprinkles on top
  6. Lemon meringue pie by the slice
  7. Apple pie by the slice
  8. Whole pumpkin pie
  9. Chocolate cream pie topped with whipped cream

These are some of the things that came up on my news feed in the last 24 hours on social media:

  • Bingo ball plinko by the number as the newest and hottest game to hit the bingo hall
  • Seoul parrot mammoth roll yum
  • Babka bread with raspberry and white chocolate in the style of jambuster donuts
  • Cherry strudel that toasts nicely
  • Mixed fruit and nut snacks baked into milk chocolate and grown in California
  • Orange candied sliced and slivered almonds
  • Corn dogs in the style of Highliner
  • Making over the pantry for dry good storage and making space for potatoes and onions
  • Non-skid lazy Susan turntables
  • Homemade sweet thai chili sauce in a glass mason jar
  • Horseradish paste in the style of Chipotle
  • Banana bread that looks and tastes like chocolate chip cookie dough
  • Sponge cake that rises by itself to the top of the bundt pan
  • Butterfly haircuts done with two ponytails
  • Eggnog flavored fudge á la carte