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Myers and five of her students timed 295 transactions at eight Boston-area coffee shops. Her study controlled for complicating factors, including the complexity of the drink order (skinny? soy? 3 percent milk?), the appearance of the customer, and the length of the line...
...York City Milk & Honey on Manhattan's Lower East Side popularized the reservations-only bar concept and keeps the guest list limited with an unlisted phone number. The easier-to-access newcomer PDT (Please Don't Tell) has a published reservation line, but the not-so-obvious entrance is right out of Get Smart. Inside a hot-dog restaurant in the East Village, patrons squeeze into a vintage phone booth and pick up the receiver. The host on the other end opens a secret panel to allow entry to the bar. Classic cocktails are served by James Meehan...
...commodities-- the bane of almost every Latin economy. Argentina, which has one of the region's more skilled workforces, recently passed a biotechnology-promotion law to channel incentives to biotech firms. One, Bio Sidus, with $40 million in annual sales, is pioneering an affordable human-growth hormone from the milk of genetically modified calves cloned 60 miles (97 km) from Buenos Aires. "Our traditional cattle-ranching experience gives us a big advantage," says Bio Sidus president Marcelo Argüelles. "But our biggest challenge is obtaining financing at international rates...
Cost of the world's most expensive dessert. Made of milk, cocoa, 5 g of 24-karat gold, gold-flecked whipped cream and shavings from a rare chocolate truffle, it's available at New York City's Serendipity 3, which has yet to sell...
...separate company, Alcon, with its own stock-market listing. Nestle's most futuristic business, an attempt to develop nutritional supplements that enhance beauty, is being pursued as a joint venture with L'Oreal. But Nestle's national organizations still manufacture much of what they sell locally, controlling the chocolate, milk and most other products they sell in their countries...