{"id":2227,"date":"2008-06-06T09:27:18","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T16:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/?p=2227"},"modified":"2008-07-06T09:35:17","modified_gmt":"2008-07-06T16:35:17","slug":"pringles-can-inventor-buried-in-pringles-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2008\/06\/06\/pringles-can-inventor-buried-in-pringles-can\/","title":{"rendered":"Pringles Can Inventor Buried In Pringles Can"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2008\/06\/02\/ashes-of-pringles-can-des_n_104687.html\">Appropriate, I suppose, for the use &#8212; except for preserving freshness<\/a>. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr. Bailey blamed food costs, a minimum-wage increase and more consumers trading down to the dollar menu from premium-price items. Greg Watson, VP-marketing at McDonald\u2019s USA, said while the Southern-market tests of the $1.09 double cheeseburger were granted at franchisees\u2019 behest, they have less to do with commodity costs than a test of price elasticity. He also noted that double cheeseburgers have been tested in different markets for as high as $1.29, and occasionally with toppings for as much as $1.99, but the fast feeder generally has found $1 to be the sweet spot for the sandwich.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagobusiness.com\/cgi-bin\/news.pl?id=29644&amp;seenIt=1\"><em>McDonald&#8217;s franchisees rebel against the dollar menu, which is killing their bottom line<\/em><\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2008\/06\/06\/pringles-can-inventor-buried-in-pringles-can\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Appropriate, I suppose, for the use &#8212; except for preserving freshness. \ud83d\ude42 Mr. Bailey blamed food costs, a minimum-wage increase and more consumers trading down to the dollar menu from premium-price items. Greg Watson, VP-marketing at McDonald\u2019s USA, said while the Southern-market tests of the $1.09 double cheeseburger were granted at franchisees\u2019 behest, they have &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2008\/06\/06\/pringles-can-inventor-buried-in-pringles-can\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pringles Can Inventor Buried In Pringles Can&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2008\/06\/06\/pringles-can-inventor-buried-in-pringles-can\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}