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Tag Archives: food
Marketing Gimmick of the Year – 2021 – Air Protein
The winner of the 2021 award for Marketing Gimmick of the Year has to be Air Protein. The marketing premise is that the company is creating a scalable process for creating protein from ‘thin air’ using a $32 million Series … Continue reading
Re-imagining Drive Thru Restaurants – Innovation or Not
Coronavirus (COVID-19) has changed our world with the subtlety of a sledgehammer and now billions of people around the world are under ‘stay at home’ orders. In many communities restaurants and bars are closed or only allowed to deliver meals … Continue reading
Posted in Healthcare, Innovation
Tagged burger king, Chipotle, delivery, Dominos, food, food delivery, Grubhub, KFC, McDonald's, Pizza Hut, Postmates, restaurants, Taco Bell
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Value Access Example – Domino’s Steady Pizza
Helping People Extract the Value You’ve Worked So Hard to Create I came across this great video from Domino’s Pizza Brazil that shows their new Steady Pizza concept. It’s a perfect example of the Value Access component of my Value … Continue reading
Food Innovation Sighting – Probiotic Chocolate
I came across the inspiration for this latest food innovation sighting through a London Business School announcement of their upcoming TELL Series speakers, and noticing that Nancy Cruickshank, co-Founder of MyShowcase would be speaking on May 21, 2014. Clicking over … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation, marketing, Product Innovation
Tagged chocolate, food, health, IBS, irritable bowel syndrome, probiotic
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Food Innovation Sighting – Waffle Taco
Do you ever see a product that makes you wonder either: A. Why didn’t I think of that? B. How come nobody ever thought of that before? Well, those are the thoughts that hit me when I opened the newspaper … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation
Tagged Doritos, doritos locos tacos, Fast Food, food, waffle tacos, waffles
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Backwards Innovation
A Case Study in Accidental Innovation According to Wikipedia, Chipotle was founded twenty years ago by Steve Ells (1993). Chipotle had 16 restaurants (all in Colorado) when McDonald’s Corporation became a major investor in 1998. By the time McDonald’s fully … Continue reading
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Innovation
Tagged Chipotle, Chipotle Mexican Grill, Fast Food, food, natural meat, organic, restaurants
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Cookies ‘n’ Cream Oreos and Chicken Feet
Now you might be asking yourself… What do Cookies ‘n’ Cream Oreos and chicken feet have in common? In short, both cookies ‘n’ cream and chicken feet involve valuable delicacies that that come from what people previously thought of as … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation, marketing, Strategy
Tagged biodiesel, chicken feet, food, oreos, waste
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Kentucky ‘Fraud’ Chicken – Food Fail
Cost Cutting Gone Mad Every time I turn around, food continues to get less and less real. Imagine my surprise when in a fit of weakness I turned up at my local KFC (yes, the word chicken is no longer … Continue reading
Posted in Strategy
Tagged Eating, Fast Food, food, health, Kentucky Fried Chicken, KFC, retail, Yum Brands
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Innovation Ripe for the Plucking
Too often we all run around trying to pluck a gamechanging idea out of thin air that nobody has ever seen, solving a problem that has never been solved, when really if the truth be told, there are still lots … Continue reading
Posted in Design, Innovation, Product Innovation
Tagged elegance, food, simplicity, value
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