Galco’s Soda Pop Stop in Los Angeles looks like any other mom-n-pop grocery store when you enter, but a quick look around and you’ll see what makes the shop unique. The store sells nothing but soda, 500 different types of fizzy sweet-tooth-satisfying beverages. CHOW.com profiles Galco’s in a bubbly documentary that will have you wanting […]
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According to Bloomberg Businessweek, we are living in the golden age of coffee lid design. The breakthrough lid, Solo Cup’s Traveler model, made its debut in 1986 and is now part of the Museum of Modern Art’s permanent design collection. “Initially the Traveler lids were a tough sell, on account of its higher price,” says
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According to Entrepreneur.com, as owner of Moman Sales, a South Florida specialist in plastic flowers, what Matt Moman knows is fake flora. In June 2007, Moman was on a business trip to San Francisco, checking out the latest in nature’s plastics, when he hit on the citrus creations of Winward International. The lemons and limes
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On this day in 1900, American inventor, Joseph Friedman, was born. His most successful invention: the flexible drinking straw. While sitting in his younger brother Albert’s fountain parlor, the Varsity Sweet Shop in San Francisco, Friedman observed his young daughter Judith at the counter, struggling to drink out of a straight straw. He took a
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Entrepreneur magazine reports that a fellow home brewer e-mailed Eric Olson a photo of a crazy-looking pub on wheels in Europe. “I said, ‘Damn, this is one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen in my life.’” He tracked down the creators–brothers Henk and Zwier van Laar in (where else?) Amsterdam–and asked how to make
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According to Neatorama, Hero of Alexandria (10-70 CE) was a Greek engineer and mathematician who lived in Roman-ruled Egypt. He invented many gadgets and wrote at length about them. In his book Pneumatics, he described an early vending machine. It dispensed holy water only when a coin was inserted. Here’s a selection from an English
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“Delicious! Refreshing! Exhilarating! Invigorating!” When John Pemberton invented Coca-Cola in 1886, not even that adrenalized ad slogan could persuade customers to try it over all the other carbonated wonder tonics on the market. According to Wired, his bookkeeper started giving away tickets for free tastes of Coke, but Pemberton chided him for “extravagance.” Then along
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Dick Seibert has lost money every year since he opened Knob Hall Winery in rural Maryland in 2006. Now he’s looking for the financing needed to double his vines to 60 acres by yearend. “We’re not making money yet, although we’re not that far away,” says Seibert, 58. Businessweek reports that Seibert’s optimism is buoyed
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I has only four ingredients: alcohol, caffeine, guarana and taurine. It comes in a multitude of flavors, and it’s now under fire by critics. Four Loko is an alcoholic energy drink that was created by Ohio State graduates, Chris Hunter, Jason Freeman and Jeff Wright. Inspired by their time in school, they decided to fill
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When Jim Koch wanted to start the Boston Beer Company more than 25 years ago, the hardest thing was getting someone to give him a business loan. The Milford Daily News reports that now, the founder of the brewery that makes Samuel Adams Boston Lager is making it easier for small businesses to get a
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