Franktuary is on You Tube. Did you know?
Also, people read the Post-Gazette. Thanks to that great review from Munch, we’re coming off our best week ever. We wouldn’t be here without you, Pittsburgh, and we know it. Here’s to many more weeks like the one just passed!
In other news, the writer of this blog, currently away from Franktuary everyday, works as a cashier in a grocery store in New Jersey. His first customer yesterday declared, as she was checking out, her voyage to the supermarket to be an “emergency trip.” Will someone please explain how an emergency grocery run partially consists of purchasing 48 cans of cherry Pepsi??????????????????????????????????? I’ll tell you, the world we live in…
It’s been a few weeks now since we’ve stopped carrying Diet Coke here at Franktuary. Most people are okay with that, especially since we’ve got several other diet beverage options.
Then there are the other people. When they find out that there’s not a single drop of Diet Coke anywhere on the premises they make a face roughly akin to the one I would make if a kangaroo defeated me in an arm wrestling match while he chatted in French on his cell phone. In the minds of those people, Diet Coke must be a naturally occurring substance more beneficial to the human body than water. Perhaps they would like to bathe in Diet Coke.
To those people I say unplug yourself! Just for the taste of it, try something else.
Franktuary now proudly carries both the Boylan’s and Hank’s brand of carbonated soft drinks. Just thought you should know.
Natrona Bottling Company delivered our first order of soda today. Bottled just last week, literally! Come try a Mint Julep today.
In other news, Franktuary is now featured in a webcom. It’s called Something To Be Desired. What webcom means is that you don’t need a TV to watch TV anymore! Give it a shot.
Lately I have been developing “intricate” graphs on scrap paper. They’re very enlightening when it comes to such things as life and/or the food-service industry. I think sometime soon I might scan what I have developed, thanks to Pixma, and share on this blog.
A new line of soda products is coming to Franktuary! Look forNatrona Bottling Company beverages to appear soon. The combination of a locally bottled product that uses quality ingredients has us pretty excited. Flavors will include Ginger Beer and Mint Julep!
And so it is, 2008. Franktuary is once again open after a brief holiday respite.
Unfortunately, while we were gone a refrigerator broke. So, instead of kicking off the new year with menu additions we are kicking off the year with a limited menu, extensive inventory purging, and waiting for maintenance men.
In other news Coca-Cola has yet to remove the soda fountain. That has actually worked out well since for the time being we have no room to refrigerate the additional soups which are supposed to be served where the fountain currently stands. And, to wrap things up, this website has just now become accessible for updating for the first time since last year! Why? Why not.
Happy New Year!
It came in the mail just today. Now, from one phone, I can place all my Coke orders for all my locations. How useful, considering I have but one phone and one location. I wonder if they’ve made the same offer to McDonald’s. THAT would be something else.
Interestingly enough, this letter arrived only days before Franktuary’s scheduled soda fountain removal. If corporate Coca-Cola only knew.
The bottom line is that Coke has made its minimum orders large enough that it’s no longer practical for a restaurant of Franktuary’s size to sell fountain beverages. Rather than extending itself to accomodate “the (fountain) man,” Franktuary is simply hoping that customers have been visiting it for reasons not related to culturally omnipresent soft drinks in the first place.
If you have been coming just for the pop*, I have to say, that’s pretty weird. Nonetheless, I’ve been known to have a quirk or four, so if that is the case I can relate. That’s why we’ll continue to have a dazzling array of carbonated beverages well stocked in our cooler at all times.
While on the subject of digestible liquid I should note that in 2008 we will be expanding and improving our soup selection. After all, something has to go where the fountain once stood.
*I’m from New Jersey, where we say soda. Writing the “word” pop actually made me cringe.
What do you think of our soda fountain? What do you think of homemade soup? These are questions to ponder, folks. Ponder them more by taking this survey.
Wouldn’t it be nice if IBC took over the IRS and everyone who filed a tax return received a free root beer or cream soda??
Yesterday someone tried to steal soda from my fountain. I caught this person in the act. Her response was that she was blind and thought she was getting water. She wasn’t blind. She wasn’t nice. She sure was high, though. She’s not allowed to be here anymore.
It’s funny how indignant people can be when they’re caught doing something they know they shouldn’t. Oh well. That’s all the time I’ve got today.
