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The food here is Epic!

By on January 25, 2013 in Food, Restaurants, Social Media, Technology, Uncategorized with No Comments

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I’ve just been reading about Epic, which is the canteen housed within the Facebook headquarters. The food served there is complimentary to all staff… which I applaud!
It seems as though food is taken pretty seriously over at the social media giant. They offer their employees creatively themed meals of high quality, with the cooking team posting the daily menu on the in-house Facebook page.
This made me wonder. Do you think all large, successful corporate firms should offer this sort of service? Should they have an in-house cafeteria? Should they offer meals free of charge by way of rewarding staff for all of their hard work? Should they make an extra effort to offer up food of high quality as in incentive to get the creative juices flowing with their employees?
I think a food incentive is a massive plus within the workplace! Healthy, well cooked, creative cooking makes for happy workers and lots of RumbleChatting 🙂

Happy Reading with your Happy Meal

By on January 14, 2013 in Food, Literature, Restaurants with No Comments

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I’m not a massive fan, it’s not the first place on my list for where I think kids should dine out, but when I read this story, I thought ‘fair play’.

The global fast food chain McDonald’s have launched a campaign, alongside the National Literacy Trust to distribute 15 million books with their happy meals over the next two years.  As well as this, McDonald’s said it would also launch ‘Happy Readers’ £1 book offers, that can be redeemed at WHSmith.

Satring last wek, the campaign starts with a non-fiction book from DK’s ‘Amazing World’ series.

Conal Presho, head of development at the National Literacy Trust, says that ‘McDonald’s is a company with huge reach across the UK.’ and that the Trust’s focus ‘was not on the food side, but on getting books into kids’ hands … Our focus is on using any way we can to encourage children to read.’

 

Forkly for all the Foodies

By on January 9, 2013 in Drinks, New web services, Restaurants, Technology with No Comments

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This recently discovered App has kept all of us at RumbleChat really busy this week! It’s a great little creation called Forkly for foodies to discover local restaurants, cafes and other eateries that have been rated by others. You can search through your feed and click on foods that you ‘want’, and read how others have rated different places to eat.

You can also rate places you have visited and share your tastes to influence other people! It’s become really useful to find the best local places to eat – a word of mouth recommendation is so valuable!

 

Can’t be bothered to unwrap your food? Then this is for you!

By on December 26, 2012 in Food, Restaurants, Technology, Uncategorized with No Comments

Merry Boxing Day to all you RumbleChat foodies!

If you found that after all the turkey, sprouts, Christmas pud and mince pies, the effort to open your Christmas presents yesterday was just too much, (unless you opened them all before breakfast that is!) then this might be the thing for you! A Brazilian burger chain has just released an advert with their food served in edible wrappers! See the advert here…

It’s hard to get your head around it isn’t it? I find even sugar paper hard to eat!

Eau de… Double Pepperoni and Cheese?

By on December 7, 2012 in Food, Restaurants with 2 Comments

Kylie has one, Beyonce has one, in fact most celebrities nowadays have their own perfume. Now Pizza Hut have jumped on the bandwagon, releasing their own limited edition scent via a Facebook promotion! Apparently it has top notes of ‘freshly baked, hand-tossed dough.’

So, RumbleChatters, we know you love food. And everyone loves a gimmick. Oh,  and it’s worth saying that there ain’t nothing wrong with the smell of baking bread! And melted cheese… and oregano… and cured meat… and tomato sauce… Oh, sorry, I got sidetracked! Um… where did you say this was retailing? Pizza Hut CANADA?! And only 110 bottles were produced?! Damn it!

Would you be interested in this scent RumbleChatters?

Do you find updating your menu a pain? The answer may be here…

By on October 8, 2012 in New web services, Restaurants with No Comments

Locu is a new service that allows you to update your menus across the web with one click.

 

We work with clients in the Restaurant business helping keep menu changes updated across the web. We know it’s a nightmare and guess if you run a restaurant that changes it’s menu regularly you’ll probably agree. So when we herd about Locu – a new service that allows you to “edit, design, and share your menu across the web for free with the click of a button” we thought you might like to know!

The good news is that these guys have received funding so are definitely planning to grow.  The bad news is that they are US based so we are currently talking to them about it’s suitability for the UK market.  We’ll keep you posted…