Word: grab
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...past two years, customers at seven of his restaurants have chatted with call-center workers across town who key in orders and then shoot them back to the restaurant, where computer monitors tell the grill guy what to grill, a drinks-and-fries person what else to grab and the window worker which car gets the bag. That division of labor lets in-store employees focus on food prep, says Bigari, 45, and makes for faster, friendlier service. A survey taken a year after the call center went live found that drive-through time decreased by more than a minute...
...conscious clothing chains at the lower end of the market have partly usurped spots once occupied by moderately priced lines trading more on quality than trendiness. And the upstarts' sprightly styles, often pinched from designer labels, are forcing the big brands to rely on craftsmanship and extravagant materials to grab their customers' attention. "What's driving our business is the 'Bang! I'll have it' impulse that only occurs if something is special," says Fendi CEO Michael Burke. "The Fendi customer doesn't need us for simple." Hence the house's new evening bag, a reimagining of last season...
Inside, people check out the art, chitchat with the artists, and grab a cup of wine and some pretzels and Twizzlers. It is as much a family affair as a night on the town; children under 12, strangely abundant, are everywhere underfoot...
...This is kind of unusual,” said Pasquarello. “We usually don’t have a level of violence in a street robbery. It is stranger than most cases. [They] usually grab a pocketbook and run—usually there is no assault...
...Security, the key focus of the President?s second-term domestic agenda, the White House has problems of its own. On the campaign trail, President Bush avoided getting specific on how he?d change Social Security, talking only in vague terms about an "ownership society" and his determination to grab hold of the "third rail of American politics." Showing voters a detailed plan on Social Security could have sent Bush back to Crawford, Texas permanently. But having avoided airing specific proposals during the election, whatever plans he now puts forward don?t carry much of a public mandate, and Republican...