The Answers A Lemon...
Has Compass gone completely bananas? In a recent e-mail to its unit managers, the caterer announced that, as from 6 July, sites will be able to buy the fruit only in 3kg boxes as opposed to "single hands" of eight. And the diktats don't stop there. Unit managers must now choose between "bananas premium" and "bananas small". The difference? Two centimetres. "Bananas premium" measure between 22cm and 25cm while "bananas small" are in the 18cm to 20cm range. Choices, choices.
... Lick it and See
e completely trusts hotel room swipe cards. So says a recent survey by "event management and conference placement solutions" company Venues Unlimited, anyway. According to its stats, 72% of us believe the cards contain our date of stay, 57% think they hold our name but 8% assume they also store our credit card details. And 4% of respondents were clearly conspiracy theorists, believing they contain "other" information. Oddly, only 83% thought the card contained the room number. Perhaps even more bizarrely, the report found that some people believe licking a faulty card will make it work. Yuk.
Driven Out of a Job
ood way to fire someone, but Yes Dining top dog Frank Bell seems to have got it down to a fine art. He certainly didn't mess about last month when he got rid of commercial director Tony Cook. The first Cook knew of his departure, so the story goes, was when a hire car rolled up at his office in Swindon, Wiltshire, to take him home. With his company car sitting in the car park, Cook presumably soon put two and two together. Bell insists Cook's exit was by mutual consent because the Swindon branch was closing anyway, but the real mystery remains the whereabouts of the company car. According to Bell, Cook is currently enjoying himself on holiday with the company car in tow. Is he not worried he won't bring it back?