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Public Restrooms and the Church

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

On a recent coffee run I saw a sign at a local restaurant located near a major freeway.   “No Public Restroom (Customers Only),” it read.
The sign was posted on the front door where everyone would see it – in fact, that and the hours were the only things posted there.  It reminded me of a [...]

Denny’s Big Breakfast Gamble and the Church

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

I saw the Super Bowl ad for a free grand slam breakfast at Denny’s on February 3rd.  And I was planning to take the family.  Only each Denny’s we visited had a line around the block.  Apparently, Denny’s served 2 million breakfasts that morning.  They estimate that they got $50 million worth of free (positive) publicity [...]