We’re probably all familiar with that sketch that has been doing the rounds for quite a while, where a clearly expectant tattoo parlour customer looks lovingly at a detailed picture of a majestic Pegasus in all its winged glory while a tattoo artist busily works on re-creating the image on his upper back.
You’re walking down the high street, your thoughts clouded by the doom and gloom messaging that assaults your senses each and every day.
It’s there in our newspapers, on our television screens, on just about every radio dial and everywhere across that ubiquitous newcomer, social media.
Our freedoms are being curtailed, our lives seriously altered by a devastating pandemic…and at times, it seems there is no end in sight.
“I haven’t got time to chat about things that don’t make me money” is a cry that, in the VitrineMedia world, stands a good chance of, well, ending in tears.
When Ray White Kurrajong principal Katherina Adams and her husband Gavin decided their ideal location on a busy thoroughfare needed sprucing up, they sat down and compiled a wish list that, even by their estimations, they readily concede could best be described as demanding.
Nawal Droubi has always known that price is what you pay, value is what you get. After all, her Lebanese pizza and pastry business in the Sydney suburb of Chipping Norton, On the Dough, thrives on providing a growing band of loyal customers with the finest foods they all agree offer great value for money.
Marcus Gavius Apicius is believed to have been a Roman gourmet and lover of luxury, who lived sometime in the 1st century AD, during the reign of Tiberius. He is further credited with coining the phrase “we eat first with our eyes”, an expression that – if this story holds water – has certainly stood the test of time!
You’re walking down the high street, your thoughts clouded by the doom and gloom messaging that assaults your senses each and every day.
Matt Peden, principal of leading Canberra-based real estate company, Independent Property Group, gladly considers himself “a brutal marker”.
It felt like a double whammy for Jack Chen and his wife Iris when the young couple took a leap of faith in early 2020 to leave the relative security of their hospitality sector jobs and invest in a Gloria Jean’s coffee shop in the busy Westfield Tea Tree Plaza shopping mall in Adelaide’s north-eastern suburbs.
It was Abraham Lincoln who uttered the immortal words that while you can well fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, you will never fool all of the people all of the time.