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...nightfall in many places, time seemed to be moving backward, back to the days of candlelight and carriages and cigar boxes as cash registers, when ice cream sold for a nickel a scoop. As it grew darker, many of the bars in New York City even went back to the days when people were allowed to smoke indoors, in the belief that the police had better things to worry about than enforcing the new ban. Tourists curled up on the street in Times Square, on library steps and in hotel ballrooms; city residents slept on their roofs, where...
...vitamins until 2000, when the success of the Carbolite candy persuaded executives to create more prepackaged foods. The company hired marketing veteran Paul Wolff as CEO, and since then it has launched nearly 100 low-carb products, from sliced bread to soy-based snack chips to a superpremium ice cream sold under Atkins' Endulge brand. Wolff says the "aggressive" pace of product rollouts will continue. "We're out to change the way the world eats," he says...
Chocolate bars and ice cream aren't the only products getting makeovers to please the growing carb-avoiding public. The all-American French fry is being retooled to overcome its unwholesome image--and perk up its sagging sales...
Steve's Ice Cream in Boston popularized the mix-in in the 1970s, and today two other growing chains--Marble Slab Creamery, which is based in Houston, and MaggieMoo's Ice Cream & Treatery, based in Columbia, Md.--employ similar ingredients and theatrics. But both trail Cold Stone in revenue and number of shops. Why? Ducey sets aggressive goals and then has his top managers--who hail from organizations like McDonald's--sprint after them. Cold Stone also knows how to mix up the mix-in, as in a Survivor-inspired promotion two years ago that combined ice cream with chocolate...
...above all, I couldn't agree more with Andre Brassard: DO reduce portions in restaurants. Obscenely large is probably an understatement. This is one of the things that struck me the most as a European tourist in the States. And those bucketfuls of popcorn at cinemas, of ice cream at supermakets, and so on... Fernando Corts Spain...