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Wendy's CEO Plans to Incorporate Surge Pricing      As early as 2025 Wendy's CEO, Kirk Tanner, announces the introduction of surge pricing. What is surge pricing? We see it all the time, when airplanes and travel agencies change prices based on holidays and seasonal and off season deals; when Lyft and Uber change prices based on time of day, weather and other factors; when bars incorporate Happy hours as opposed to other times of day.      The idea is to create and even pace of revenue through out the day and eliminate the loss from less productive parts of the day. Weather this means better prices during slow periods of the day to increase sales, or price gauging at these times to increase revenue is still too be seen.         Tanner states  “Beginning as early as 2025, we will begin testing more enhanced features like dynamic pricing and daypart offerings, along with AI-enabled menu changes and suggestive selling. As we conti...

  The Passing of Jacob Rothschild, at the age of 87 Jacob Rothschild,  powerful Jewish and British philanthropist, financier and lover of art passed away today, Monday, Feb. 26, 2024. Jacob Rothschild, born April 29, 1936 in Berkshire, England was married to his wife Serena Mary Dunn for over five decades before she passed away in 2019. Jacob Rothschild leaves behind children Hannah, Beth, Emily and Nathaniel. The Rothschild family founded a bank in Frankfurt six generations before Jacob and have since become one of the world wealthiest banking families.   CHRIS MOORHOUSE/EVENING STANDARD/HULTON ARCHIVE/GETTY IMAGES       Jacob Rothschild created ripples in his family in the late 1970's proposing a merger with the London Bank S.G Warburg. After breaking from his family,  Jacob acquired assets ranging from hotels, to oil and tobacco companies. Striking deals with other great banking institutions such as the Rockefeller Financial Services. He held t...

            In today's news is the birthday of a legend straight from the south side of Chicago. Born October 19, 1992 in Eaglewood, Illinois Lil Durk would make decisions that would land him in a better place than almost all of his peers. Although Lil Durk lost his father at a tender age in 1994, he would grow to become one of the most inspirational rappers of the past decade.       After self-releasing a few singles that were downloaded over 200,000 times on his own, Lil Durk would ultimately become affiliated with Def Jams for the majority of his career. His first single being "Dis Aint What You Want". His song "Remember My Name" peaking at number #14 on the Billboard 200. Lil Durk has had quite reputable career for himself.     Besides his success in the music industry Lil Durk also possessed quite a soft spot for children. As he is the founder of  Neighborhood Heroes – Founded by Lil Durk – Neighborhood Heroes is...

                Gabby Petito and her boyfriend and murderer, Brian Laundrie, can be seen in this footage from a Wyoming Whole Foods store strolling the isles together on August 27, 2021. Just hours before her death as reported by Fox News. Tragically Gabby's remains were not to be found until September 19th. Only a few days after Gabby's parents filed a missing person's report with the police. Ms. Petito's body was found 30 miles more of the Whole Foods where this video footage was taken.     Brian Laundrie, sadly, is also not here to face the consequences of his actions as his body was found, along with his confession to what he had done to Ms. Petito. According to the coroner's report Gabby was murdered by manual strangulation.      Laundrie was a person of interest within the case for the beginning as he returned from his trip with Gabby to his parent's house and refused to talk about the trip. A country ...

Ms. Wit     Imagine walking down the beautiful coastline of Queens Island Australia, the sunlight falling warm and cozy on your face, as the cool sea breeze races through your hair. Then, BOOM, 3 foot long whale penis laying in your path!!!! Well this is exactly what happened to this young Tiktoker.  image source ( Giant 'whale penis' washes up on Aussie beach (yahoo.com) )          Not knowing what the object originally was, an army of loyal Tiktok residents have united, including the Australian Yahoo! team who turned to wildlife scientist Dr. Vanessa Pirotta. Dr. Pirotta believes that it may very likely in fact be a whale penis. Humpback whales are knows to migrate to the region to mate in this season so it's not unlikely. This begs the question WHY? Why did some poor whale in the big broad sea have to loose his Willy. Some have concluded it was bitten of in the fierce mating battle grounds by a competing humpback. A theory debunked by Dr. Pirot...