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Well, if it is any consolation, the old Dunkin' Donuts location at the intersection of PCH and Aviation is becoming a Pink Berry. I was down in LA for a few days and drove by it. I was saddened by the fact that the once great DD that supplied so many Bonus Cups to the likes of the Descendents and Black Flag is becoming a store called Pink Berry.
For what does this consolation anecdote serve? I don't know. Maybe you can find peace in the expansion of PB while battling the anger at 4 star hotel accommodations and silly parachuting-into-limo plane rides.
Saturday, March 15, 2008
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fucked up
So my brothers friend arranges a hotel and a pickup for me in Zhuhai. The plane is scheduled to arrive at 9:30 but fuckin doesn't anticipate the immigration and the fact it takes at least 30 minutes to pass through immigration of Macau and then into China. That's 1 hour at least after plane lands. So she schedules the hotel pickup at 9:30. The hotel driver leaves after waiting for 45 min... who would blame them?
Either she's a fucking idiot or she just didn't know it takes that long to get from macau to china. If it's the latter it's a little more understandable but still a fucking moron because with a little effort she coulda realized it. Am i expected to parachute out the plane and into the car exactly at 9:30... fuck
Then the hotel accomodations suck dick. The hotel overbooks and lets go of my room so sticks me with a shit for fuck room that's really tiny for a 4 star hotel. The rug is covered with fucking stains, who the fuck knows what stains it is but i have to wear slippers.
I'm actually pretty fucking pissed about the whole thing.
Either she's a fucking idiot or she just didn't know it takes that long to get from macau to china. If it's the latter it's a little more understandable but still a fucking moron because with a little effort she coulda realized it. Am i expected to parachute out the plane and into the car exactly at 9:30... fuck
Then the hotel accomodations suck dick. The hotel overbooks and lets go of my room so sticks me with a shit for fuck room that's really tiny for a 4 star hotel. The rug is covered with fucking stains, who the fuck knows what stains it is but i have to wear slippers.
I'm actually pretty fucking pissed about the whole thing.
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Rice to Richez...
That's a hilarious name... reminds of the magic card ashes to ashes... or something.
Hey rudester, give me your friggin number biatch.. ur the only one i know that might still be up at 1 am.
So yeah, there is a lot of negative hype on the yogurt, saying that it's not really yogurt since it's frozen, but i don't know, I'll still have to do some research on that. But the implosion is probably cuz everyone started copycatting, and when you do that some are bound to close down. Pberry still has around 33 locations and it's still expanding. The powders are quite common, i think the deal is to be the first and not the 2nd 3rd or 50th to open around the block.
Mentioning penguins, fuck! i actualy remember that from somewhere.
That's a hilarious name... reminds of the magic card ashes to ashes... or something.
Hey rudester, give me your friggin number biatch.. ur the only one i know that might still be up at 1 am.
So yeah, there is a lot of negative hype on the yogurt, saying that it's not really yogurt since it's frozen, but i don't know, I'll still have to do some research on that. But the implosion is probably cuz everyone started copycatting, and when you do that some are bound to close down. Pberry still has around 33 locations and it's still expanding. The powders are quite common, i think the deal is to be the first and not the 2nd 3rd or 50th to open around the block.
Mentioning penguins, fuck! i actualy remember that from somewhere.
Monday, March 10, 2008
I think Jon's in Costa Rica for the week on a vacation - I took his ass to the airport.. maybe "costa rica" was just a codename for his true destination... (insert joke destination here.)
Yeah Johnny, I'm no king of market research or anything, but when I was working downtown last year I worked with this old lady that's a food con-a-saurus and she knew the history of pink berry and where that style originated and all that shit. Pretty interesting. But just as an example I could see the short while I was down there, Pink B opened: big line of people for over priced yogurt. Just like the old days with Penguins (remember that shit!?) Then right nearby another spot opened (different name, same shit) then a few others popped up. And THEN (and this is in the space of a little over a year) some of those places were already closing down! I think it was just like EXPLOSION and fizzled out, at least in my area. ALSO, I remember when it was getting popular here a bunch of news channels starting running stories on how unhealthy that shit was lol. Propaganda! But I think that hurt business. I dunno. I don't know what the scene in PI is like, but I'm sure if you opened up one of those places it'd do well enough, I assume.
Speaking of random franchises: Last year when I was in New York there was this RANDOM spot in Little Italy called Rice to Riches (haha) that was a friggen RICE PUDDING place all bright and obnoxious like a P-Barrys. I think it was the only one but it totally felt like a franchise and it was a trip. And tasty as hell, but you KNOW that shit ain't good for you. But SOOOO friggen tasty. And they had a lot of people there. Here's the website: Rice 2 Richez - If you guys are ever in NY you GOTTA try it. Friggen delicious. But since it doesn't even seem the LEAST bit healthy, I don't see it blowing up like here in Cali.
Yeah Johnny, I'm no king of market research or anything, but when I was working downtown last year I worked with this old lady that's a food con-a-saurus and she knew the history of pink berry and where that style originated and all that shit. Pretty interesting. But just as an example I could see the short while I was down there, Pink B opened: big line of people for over priced yogurt. Just like the old days with Penguins (remember that shit!?) Then right nearby another spot opened (different name, same shit) then a few others popped up. And THEN (and this is in the space of a little over a year) some of those places were already closing down! I think it was just like EXPLOSION and fizzled out, at least in my area. ALSO, I remember when it was getting popular here a bunch of news channels starting running stories on how unhealthy that shit was lol. Propaganda! But I think that hurt business. I dunno. I don't know what the scene in PI is like, but I'm sure if you opened up one of those places it'd do well enough, I assume.
Speaking of random franchises: Last year when I was in New York there was this RANDOM spot in Little Italy called Rice to Riches (haha) that was a friggen RICE PUDDING place all bright and obnoxious like a P-Barrys. I think it was the only one but it totally felt like a franchise and it was a trip. And tasty as hell, but you KNOW that shit ain't good for you. But SOOOO friggen tasty. And they had a lot of people there. Here's the website: Rice 2 Richez - If you guys are ever in NY you GOTTA try it. Friggen delicious. But since it doesn't even seem the LEAST bit healthy, I don't see it blowing up like here in Cali.
Oh yeah? what do u mean by burned itself in the process... do u mean no one goes to pberry anymore? or the craze died down? but it's not unexpected the craze wouldn't die down... there were 3000 people a day at one of those shops... you can't maintain that forever. However that doesn't mean business isn't still trendy or people stopped eating frozen yogurt.
Anyway, I like your feedback rude! If you can elaborate on it, I'd appreciate it as research. All I know is these places are still pretty trendy and that Pberry just got bought up by Starbucks. Anyone else?>
Anyway, I like your feedback rude! If you can elaborate on it, I'd appreciate it as research. All I know is these places are still pretty trendy and that Pberry just got bought up by Starbucks. Anyone else?>
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Eric: America's God of War
Everyone knows how much Eric LOVES war and war games, so I totally thought of him this weekend. I watched a fuck-ton of documentaries on World War Deuce.
First series was on Aww-switch (I can't spell it or be bothered looking up the proper spelling.)It was interesting and pretty messed up. The whole history of the facility and it's purposes before becoming the infamous death camp.
Crazy shit man.
The second series I watched was called "War of the Century" and was aboutthe Eastern Front - Germans vs. Russians. THAT shit was insane. Assholes on both sides and who got fucked the most? The civilians of course, from all sides too. Jeez. They were talking about the "partisans" - like the russian gorilla fighters
and those dudes were pretty fucked up even against their own people. And then german reprisals. ALL bad. And what was nuts about both this documentary series was they'd have interviews with officers and soldiers and MOST of them were just "meh, yeah I shot kids." Like, not a whole lot of remorse. Like one dude was talking about a bunch of enemy soldats who surrendered and how they shot them up while the dudes were crouching on the ground.
Also, lots of footage I hadn't seen before. FUCK, war is bad. But how civilians really bare the brunt of all this bullshit, totally made me think of A Song of Ice and Fire. OH YEAH.
JAH-KNEE: I dunno dude. The trend for those Korean yogurt spots was a real quick flare down here - burned itself out pretty quick. I think we had Pink Berry and one called Red Mango or some shit, and they got SUPER popular and then tried to expand and I think
they got burned in the process.
First series was on Aww-switch (I can't spell it or be bothered looking up the proper spelling.)It was interesting and pretty messed up. The whole history of the facility and it's purposes before becoming the infamous death camp.
Crazy shit man.
The second series I watched was called "War of the Century" and was aboutthe Eastern Front - Germans vs. Russians. THAT shit was insane. Assholes on both sides and who got fucked the most? The civilians of course, from all sides too. Jeez. They were talking about the "partisans" - like the russian gorilla fighters
and those dudes were pretty fucked up even against their own people. And then german reprisals. ALL bad. And what was nuts about both this documentary series was they'd have interviews with officers and soldiers and MOST of them were just "meh, yeah I shot kids." Like, not a whole lot of remorse. Like one dude was talking about a bunch of enemy soldats who surrendered and how they shot them up while the dudes were crouching on the ground.
Also, lots of footage I hadn't seen before. FUCK, war is bad. But how civilians really bare the brunt of all this bullshit, totally made me think of A Song of Ice and Fire. OH YEAH.
JAH-KNEE: I dunno dude. The trend for those Korean yogurt spots was a real quick flare down here - burned itself out pretty quick. I think we had Pink Berry and one called Red Mango or some shit, and they got SUPER popular and then tried to expand and I think
they got burned in the process.
Sunday, March 09, 2008
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Y+
After some crazy ideas pitched onto this blog for my friends to read, this is my latest. I'm seriously considering looking into starting a soft surve frozen yogert shop.
Would love to hear any advise, comments, flurries etc.
It's a craze in the US, but still rather new here. So in a different part of the universe, the wheel is still being invented. I'm betting this wheel will be just as big of a hit.
So far I've gotten a business plan, location, and store concept all laid out. I'm talking to a few relatives for financing. I was thinking about documenting this whole process just for kicks. I wanted to create a viral marketing plan to launch this just like all the hype with the other yogurt shops.
Intelligent thots?
Would love to hear any advise, comments, flurries etc.
It's a craze in the US, but still rather new here. So in a different part of the universe, the wheel is still being invented. I'm betting this wheel will be just as big of a hit.
So far I've gotten a business plan, location, and store concept all laid out. I'm talking to a few relatives for financing. I was thinking about documenting this whole process just for kicks. I wanted to create a viral marketing plan to launch this just like all the hype with the other yogurt shops.
Intelligent thots?
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