Word: slammingly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...many casual-dining chains whose sales are suffering in the recession, needs a few thousand customers like Cory McGrath. On April 7, McGrath, 20, saw a television ad for a Denny's promotion that was taking place the next day. The deal: buy one of its famous $5.99 "Grand Slam" breakfasts, and get a free "Grand Slamwich," a tasty heart attack consisting of scrambled eggs, sausage, bacon, shaved ham, mayonnaise and American cheese on potato bread, for a pal (or, if you are into wolfing down a ghastly amount of food, yourself...
...brand in tough times. Denny's is embracing its history as an after-party haven for young, hungry drunks (and, the company is quick to point out, sober people too). For years, countless 20-somethings across the country, after a night of carousing, have suddenly craved a Grand Slam - pancakes, eggs, bacon, sausage, the works - to soak up the alcoholic suds in their stomachs. It's 3 a.m., the bars are closed ... let's go to Denny's. (Not that I, for one, know any of this from personal experience.) "When all of us were...
...Denny's deserves credit for mapping out, and executing, these bold, relatively unique recession-fighting strategies. Sadly, they still might not work. Back in New Jersey, Pat Blakovich, a dog groomer, had just finished sharing the two-for-one Grand Slam meal with a friend. She went to Denny's just for the promotion, which she saw online the previous day. Blakovich was satisfied. But she's probably not coming back anytime soon. "It's not just here - I don't want Denny's to feel bad," says Blakovich, 46. "I'm cutting back everywhere, not going out as much...
...Fellow senior Matt Rogers gave Stack-Babich a serious run for this award, turning in a six-homer week that included two weekend jacks and a monster grand slam in the Crimson’s 12-11 loss to Holy Cross last Wednesday...
...started yesterday’s loss with a bang, courtesy of an increasingly familiar source of offensive firepower.After tying the game at one in the bottom of the second, Harvard filled the bases for senior left fielder Matt Rogers. On the first pitch he saw, Rogers blasted a grand slam straight down the left-field line to give him six home runs and 23 RBI on the season, totals which are tied for first and second in the Ivy League, respectively.“We had the bases loaded and when we saw Matty coming to the plate, we were...