The first Ronald McDonald was Willard Scott in 1963.
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There's a café in France which charges €7 for a coffee to rude customers and €1.40 to people who talk politely to staff.
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All 3 founders of Apple worked at Atari before forming Apple.
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Starbucks uses round tables to make solo coffee drinkers feel less alone.
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In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".
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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."
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In October 1997, when Internet Explorer 4.0 was released, some Microsoft employees left a giant "From the IE team... We Love You" on Netscape's lawn.
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