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Why fast food chains are launching so many spicy versions of classic menu items
NBC News· 2025-08-07 20:39
It is in fact fuego from social media to menus nationwide. This spring and summer, US chains adding over 70 new spicy dishes to their menus. According to CNBC and the market research firm Data Essential Food Econ 101, if you have something spicy and you want to bring more customers in, you want to entice more people with something new, you make it spicier.This is the Wendy's spicy chicken sandwich. This is also the Wendy spicy chicken sandwich, but they've upgraded it a little bit. This is an example some w ...
Suntory Holdings CEO: 'People are not drinking hard spirits as much as before'
CNBC Television· 2025-07-22 20:12
Suntory Holdings CEO Takeshi Niinami discusses how the company is addressing the trend of younger consumers shifting away from hard spirits. ...
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IcoBeast.eth🦇🔊· 2025-07-06 01:00
Gambling as not only normalized behavior, but encouraged and expected behavior.Study the rapid proliferation of sports gambling and 0DTE options.Long consumer gambling apps and synthetic replacements for human connection:- Robinhood- Euphoria, Noise- Fantasy sports (including parasocial fantasy sports - aka Fantasy Top)- Synthetic intimacy - OF/related parasocial relationships- then some product that doesn’t exist yet that lets people gamble against their debts using their future physical labor as collatera ...