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the round dodger
Getting behind it Fighting the recession
You know the deal, it’s getting onto summer so you’ve
It’s not an easy time to run a pub, hell
got sales guys on the phone trying to sell you outdoor
it’s not an easy time to go to the shops
furniture, with little in the way of proof that theirs is
for the messages, but online takeaway
better than the next guy’s. That’s why when
outfit just-eat.co.uk has found a way to
Leicestershire-based Poly-wood said it was to test out its
ease the burden of the recession.
recycled outdoor furniture on 500,000 behinds, The
Thankfully it seems all we need to do
Round Dodger wanted to know more.
is eat curry, which will in turn release
The company’s furniture is made of recycled plastic
endorphins and therefore our stress
drinks bottles and over the course of the summer it will
will simply flutter away leaving us free
run a trial in a restaurant near its HQ to prove the
to enjoy life in a care-free curry-addled
chairs are as tough as they are kind. Poly-wood better
bubble of spicy niceness.
hope the chairs last the pace though, or we’ll be
According to the press release:
accusing them of talking out their…
“Takeaways such as Vindaloo, Madras
and Thai curry are among the
takeaway meals most associated with vegetables, notably tomatoes.”
stress-relief, with their mix of endorphin There you go. Something to mull
releasing red chilli peppers and over as your business struggles to
serotonin-rich mood-enhancing make ends meet.
Get the lab coats ready
A pub in South Yorkshire recently circumvented the smoking ban by designating a
room as a smoking research facility. Kerry Fenton, landlady of the Cutting Edge
reckoned if customers filled in a questionnaire on smoking habits every time they
nipped out for a fag then they could puff away indoors. The plan is being thwarted
by Punch Taverns, which owns the site, and who wants her to stop, but Kerry has
said that since the ‘research centre’ opened customers had grown five-fold.
Wheelie good effort
For now, she continues, but as TRD filed his copy for this issue, the council was
due to pop round for a chat. It’s a chat that probably won’t end well for Kerry, or
Every now and again The Round Dodger has to move his her eager labratory beagles.
lazy derrière to doff his cap to someone who’s gone above
and beyond the call of duty. This month that cap is doffed in
the direction of Ian Macleod Distillers’ assistant blender, John
Glass, who for reasons known only to himself, spent 12 days
Get behind your local team
last month cycling the 1,106 mile journey from Land’s End While many drinks brands out there throw countless millions at sports teams in
to John O’Groats. order to keep brand awareness high, The Round Dodger would like to applaud
John, and his friend Kenneth Taylor did manage to raise Chivas Brothers, the whisky arm of Pernod Ricard, for agreeing to extend the
£3,000 for The Cystic Fibrosis Trust so congratulations to sponsorship of Dumbarton Football Club. Dumbarton, who jointly won the
them both for finishing what was undoubtedly an arduous inaugural Scottish football league with Rangers back in 1891, doesn’t quite
but rewarding task. compete on the same level as its one-time rival anymore but it can still boast
having one of the biggest drinks’ company’s in the world sponsoring its shirt. Plus,
the Club has just won promotion to the Second Division. The latest deal will run
from the end of August 2009 until July 2010 and will see the continued use of
the Ballantine’s logo on the team’s home and away strip.
Get in touch
If anything unusual happened in your pub this month, get in touch with
The Round Dodger. From the bizarre to the idiotic, we want to know all
about it. Email kscott@55north.com or call on 0141 222 5385.
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