"Peabody, I will have you know that you taking down your website RUINED my 7 year daughter’s birthday party. My daughter had requested your Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cake which we served for my husband’s birthday a couple of months ago. Imagine my surprise when I opened up my browser to see that your site is no longer running. How am I supposed to make this cake if you site is down? Why put up a website only to take it down? I waited all Saturday night and all Sunday morning for your site to work, I even went to my neighbors to see if it was my computer. I am beyond upset. I had to serve a store bought cake to my guest and daughter. She was crushed." Oh goodie, let’s add Child Birthday Ruiner to my resume shall we, right after ball buster and before dream crusher. First off, I did not voluntarily take my site down. It crashed. My ex (aka webmaster) was out of town and could not see what was wrong as he was in the sticks with very little connection. It crashed because … [Read more...]
Panera Bread: Fresh Ingredients, Quality Food
One thing I judge in a restaurant is whether or not former employees will eat there again. Having worked in restaurants I can tell you that many of the things that you see behind the scene can send you running, and running fast. There have been places I have worked that after spending time in the kitchen and either seeing really poor sanitary choices or poor choices in food quality; I simply won’t eat there again. So it was important to me to know that all of the people I know and a few people who left comments on the last Panera post who had worked there….still eat there. This speaks volumes. Volumes. In fact, most of them still crave it. :) Panera Bread is one of the few companies in the food industry to have thrived so far in our not so awesome economy, and the reason why that is, they stick to what they do best: Fresh Ingredients, Quality Food. Let’s take their strawberries for example. I mentioned in my last post that I love their Strawberry Poppyseed and Chicken Salad. … [Read more...]
