Instead of focusing on ‘cutting back’, maybe one solution to keeping your employees and customers happy, and attracting new ones, is laniappe. Thanks to one of our customers from New Orleans, it’s become one of my favorite words.
Category Archives: Lifestyle
Recycle your cardboard
Our vanilla supplier, Nielsen-Massey, just switched to using all recycled corrugated containers for their shipping. Does that really matter? Here’s a quick factoid: For every ton of corrugated cardboard that is recycled, this preserves 17 trees, 463 gallons of oil, and 3 cubic yards of landfill space. If a ton sounds like a big number…
No, we don’t offer fried cookies
If it can be fried – you’ll find it at the NC State Fair. I have not been to state fairs other than North Carolina and Kentucky, so I can’t speak for what their vendors offer in terms of food variety. If you are from North Carolina and have been to the State Fair, you…
How to save 86,000 barrels of oil
In my post about going green, I mentioned that we switched to dishwashing soap from Seventh Generation. It is plant based and contains no dyes or petro chemicals. Here is a statistic from their label: “If every household in the U.S. Replaced just one 25 oz. bottle of petroleum based dishwashing liquid with our plant-derived…
Really outside the oven
Anna and Dad take a trip on the water to get outside and meet up with an unexpected guest.