Archive for June, 2009

Facts on Fast Food and the traveling sales person

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

Oh Ya! the fact is it will kill you but it sure is fun to eat!

I travel the country selling and marketing new products and ideas and well as teaching business via seminars and clinics and do I ever find some great food.

On one of my recent trips I wandered into the great state of Oklahoma a place I remember from childhood and college with some blurs on the latter. 

 Southern Cooking look out arterial damage is coming here for sure.

Now mind you I am a 45 year old with the stomach of an 18 year old so do not attempt this with out warning or a bottle of Tums or your favorite antacid near by. Here goes. Now in Oklahoma they hide the food behind fancy nams like Polo Grill and Crebs and others when in fact it is fancy southern fried and flavored food alround.

Anyway here it was dinner time, I often travel alone so I inturn eat by myself. Oklahoma City is in fact one best kept secrets in the Midwest so I stumble upon a small quote “steak house” I enter and am treated with the hospitality of old home week, I sit and begin to inhale the scent of things to come. The pepper, the bread, the chicken fried steak. Now here is where the twist is. Chicken fried steak is not chicken in fact it is beef and not a good cut by standards but non the less pounded into a tenderized state of being. But not here, infact they use a center cut fillet, pound it out bread it in sweet batter and fry it until tears come from your eyes as it melts on your tongue. But wait it was served with Fried Okra, Real mashed covered in home made southern gravy and baked bread basket I wanted to take home.

All this topped off with homemade pecan pie and ice cream my arterial attack complete I went to the hotel and enjoyed every minute of the pressure my full stomach gave me and guess what I will do it all again.

Want my list of places to eat and those to avoid, just ask I will share.

Business and The Politics of Doing It

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

We started lion footwear direct with the idea of bringing comfort shoes to people who worked on their feet. An employee benefit if you will, offering exclusive pricing for employees of our partner companies and Universities. What we offer them as a free program many such as Southwest Airlines employee’s whos corporate say fit to charge us to offer discounts to the flight attendants, ground crews and pilots.

We have just re vamped the whole program and made it available to employee’s of all our partners at work or home. We have also worked with Lowes and American Airlines on getting the word out. Now we will focus on our other partners and the plan to give employees benefit at not cost to them. We are much less expensive than Zappos, Shoe Buy or any other discount footwear web site.

If you are interested in a plan for your company, let us know, we can design one for you.