MY TRIP TO ORLANDO for the Xplorations 2015 conference was an outstanding success, personally and professionally. I made some new friends, some of whom I'm sure I'll be working with for a very long time. The conference has a traditional international attendance including a contingent from the Netherlands, and my new favorite company and associates, who are from South Africa.
The founder of NEPS, Denise Miano, won the lifetime achievement award. This is a highly prestigious award from an important industry association, and we're all proud of Denise. Great picture below: George Webb, NEPS CTO, Mary Hegarty, General Manager CCM, Denise, and me.
Connected to the Wyndham International Drive hotel & "resort" (I use that term loosely) is a Cooper's Hawk winery and restaurant. This restaurant chain serves excellent food and the service was super. On two of the three days I chose the buffet breakfast, which featured bacon, of course.
They get their bacon from John Morrell's out of IL. While I generally find food service bacon to be of lower quality, that wasn't the case here. The bacon was excellent. Although confined to an enclosure at the buffet, it was acceptably crisp and was very tasty. In addition to foodservice, they have a dozen or so national brands that I'll have to look into on behalf of Field Agent.
Speaking of Field Agent, not only does Field Agent now have over 500,000 downloads of its smartphone app, but it also just celebrated its fifth birthday. Wow, simply amazing. Field Agent is doing business with just about every important CPG, Retailer, Research and Marketing Agency as well as QSRs and even insurance companies. There is no better, faster or more cost effective way to obtain business information and insights.
Happy Birthday Field Agent!
BACON IN THE NEWS The picture at the top of the blog is a little "over the top" of the blog. It's someone who created a bacon version of professional hockey's Stanley Cup out of bacon. Courtesy of si.com.
The news includes my visit to Orlando, because at the show I met a gentleman named Ed Bacon! Ed, a longtime employee of Aetna, was very accomodating and let me get a picture with him in the blog, below. Ed's family, as you can imagine, does a few bacon-related things. They are fond of playing bacon-opoly, and he shared that picture with me as well.
Interestingly, Ed didn't know whether he was related to Kevin Bacon or not!
This photo makes "my life with bacon" a literal reality, right? The irony was overwhelming. And the fact that Ed Bacon is in this blog, literally means it's Bacon in the News.
This weekend is Chicago Baconfest; unfortunately, I won't be attending. But I will be going to the Northshore Baconfest coming up in a few weeks.
THIS WEEK'S BACON cook-up is Stop & Shop's standard "Center Cut" bacon, at a package weight of 12 ounces. It weighed in at exactly twelve ounces, a testament to Ahold's quality control. Cooked down to 3.2 ounces with great overall taste, crispness and succulence. I give it 3's across the board. Good everyday bacon, but the slices were cut a little too short...
How did I get this bacon in Chicago? Why, PeaPod, of course.
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