The first McDonald’s drive-thru was opened near a military base in Arizona “to serve soldiers who weren’t permitted to get out of their cars while wearing fatigues.”
13
When Scott Paper Company first started manufacturing toilet paper they did not put their name on the product because of embarrassment.
41
The CEO of Japan Airlines makes $90,000 a year, less than the pilots. During an interview, he said "We in Japan learned during the bubble economy that businesses who pursue money first fail. The business world has lost sight of this basic tenet of business ethics."
9
90% of all restaurants fail during their first year of operation.
48
As of 2014, Apple has enough money to buy Facebook, or Netflix, Tesla, Twitter, Dropbox, Pandora, and Spotify combined - with $59 billion to spare!
9
Starbucks uses round tables to make solo coffee drinkers feel less alone.
11