by Bruce Turkel | May 6, 2007 | Branding
Darden, which operates about 1,400 Red Lobster, Olive Garden, Bahama Breeze, Smokey Bones and Seasons 52 restaurants, posted $5.7 billion in sales for fiscal 2006. Sales per restaurant at Smokey Bones lagged behind its counterparts. Olive Garden: Total Sales: $2.62...
by Bruce Turkel | May 6, 2007 | Branding
VIA Bob Wright. If you or I owned a Smokey Bones Bar-B-Q Restaurant, we might be thrilled with the money it makes. But the concept does meet Darden’s internal hurdle rate for returns for a national chain. Darden’s fought the limitation of their bar-b-q/sports...
by Bruce Turkel | May 5, 2007 | Branding
VIA CNN Artist Christian Nold outfits volunteers with global positioning system devices and the sensors used in lie detector tests. Then, he sends his subjects out to wander their neighborhoods. When they return, Nold asks them to recount what they saw and felt when...
by Bruce Turkel | May 4, 2007 | Keynote speaking
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by Bruce Turkel | May 4, 2007 | Keynote speaking
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