Meetings with “Pepper” on Calendar Invites
Maybe this should have been titled Good Calendar Etiquette. A few times a week I receive calendar invites from others where the title of the invite is “Meeting with Pepper” or “Pepper Breakfast” or...
Author: John Pepper
Unexpected Beauty in Stick Season
This fall singer-songwriter Noah Kahan released a new album called Stick Season. He grew up in Strafford, VT about 10 minutes from where I live in Hanover, NH. I never thought of a season...
White Lotus
No spoilers. I haven’t slept well yet this year, thanks in large part to binge watching (1-1.5 episodes per night) White Lotus. We have 2 episodes remaining (that I can see) in Season 2....
Et Tu, Brute?
So the story goes… on March 15 (the Ides of March), 44 BC, the historic Caesar was attacked by a group of senators, including Brutus, who was Caesar’s friend and protégé. Grabbed this from Wikipedia not surprisingly. When I...
Not Progress
This is classic. First, I have no issue with progress. But this ad published by a company I won’t name misses on all counts. Moving from $7.00 to $7.25 a) is required by law...
Peloton Winners & Losers
It would be fascinating to break down the demographics of the #PTON winners on the way up and the losers on the way down. Are they the same people up and down, so was...
Today’s Marketing often is anything but Marketing
A recent Seth Godin post (pasted below) resonated (nothing new there), and I sent a note similar to what I share here to our whole team: This is one of the reasons Boloco has...
Soaring Paulina
It’s always an honor to be asked to speak publicly… as well as a source of incredibly anxiety for many 😳. Better than being asked yourself is when someone you’ve watched (and hopefully helped!)...
Labor Day ’22 is more than BBQs in California
Since joining the restaurant industry back in 1997, Labor Day has become my least favorite holiday. While many gather with family on beaches and grill burgers and dogs in their backyards, millions of others...
Day 1002: Savory Fund Restaurantology Conference
Our oldest is a freshman at University of Utah, so when the opportunity to attend Savory Fund’s annual event in Salt Lake City landed in my inbox, I jumped on it. The dinner and...
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