If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it.
Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.” My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. “Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight.
McDonald’s, meanwhile, serves a Southern Style Chicken Biscuit in certain regions, in direct competition with Chick-fil-A’s star breakfast offering.Ībout a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”: Chick-fil-A has been serving breakfast for decades, but New Orleans-style fried chicken chain Popeye’s began testing breakfast in a single market this past May, and KFC introduced a breakfast menu internationally last year. Just in time, too, because the chicken breakfast market is becoming crowded. “We have steadily focused on maximizing the breakfast day part with a variety of enhancements and promotions over the past several years, and we home our ‘Breakfast on Us’ promotion will encourage our current customers to try something completely different and also help attract new breakfast customers to us.” “The breakfast day part continues to be a tremendous growth opportunity,” Steve Robinson, Chick-fil-A’s chief marketing officer, said in the announcement of the breakfast giveaway on the company’s website. 13, and at least two Virginia locations had thousands of time slots still open.Ĭustomers may choose one of 10 items, including a chicken biscuit a spicy chicken biscuit a sausage biscuit a three-pack of Chick-n-Minis (chicken nuggets wrapped in tiny bread buns, more or less) a chicken, egg, and cheese bagel a bacon, egg, and cheese biscuit a chicken breakfast burrito a sausage breakfast burrito oatmeal or a yogurt parfait.īy signing up, you agree to our Privacy Policy.Īlready a subscriber? Log in to hide ads. The Atlanta-based chicken sandwich chain started taking reservations last Thursday, and there is still plenty of time to sign up: Depending on availability, breakfast slots can be reserved until Sept. Depending on location, breakfast hours are generally between 6:30 a.m. Getting a Chick-fil-A free breakfast requires going to Chick-fil-A’s website, selecting a nearby participating location, a meal item, and a time slot. But simply showing up won’t do: Chicken biscuit enthusiasts must sign up online. Once again, it’s time for the fast food promotion that requires a little bit of planning ahead.Ĭhick-fil-A is bringing back its “Breakfast on Us” giveaway, offering free breakfast entrées to customers next week, Sept. They hope that through making public apologies, writing books, making donations, and engaging with activists around the lasting damages of slavery, more people like them will see the power in shining a light on a historic wrong.On this day, there was perhaps some small power in my friend feeling that even this corner of her island was not off-limits.
Founding members, profiled in today’s Daily, discovered their own ancestral ties to slavery and decided the solution was to take action. Drax’s attitude contrasts with that of a new group called Heirs of Slavery. “You’ll never believe where I am,” she said in a voice note.Mr. We took in the manicured lawns, the aged brickwork of the old windmill tower, and the vast fields of sugar cane, musing poignantly about all that the towering trees must have seen in their lifetimes.While I furiously took notes, my companion sent selfies and messages to friends and family. Those running the property don’t like the negative attention – and attempted visits – that have come with that.Still, we gave it a try one evening, driving down a dirt road and parking outside the grand home with its rust-red-trimmed roof and green shutters. It’s believed to be the oldest building of its kind in the Western Hemisphere.A government source told me it was fine to stroll onto most plantations, but when I asked a local to join, she laughed: “No way we can go there!” The current owner, conservative British Member of Parliament Richard Drax, has refused to engage in conversations around reparations for slavery, even as momentum for reparative justice has grown in recent years. The sugar plantation has been in the same family’s hands for nearly four centuries, and the property hosts a 17th-century house made in the late English Renaissance Jacobean style.
When I was reporting in Barbados in May, a visit to Drax Hall was a must-do.
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