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  • Is a Penny Rounded a Penny Lost? Ask Chipotle

    08/29/2012 3:46:56 PM PDT · by GQuagmire · 25 replies
    Yahoo.com via NYT ^ | 8/29/12 | ANN CARRNS
    ...The Consumerist recently riffed on a column in The Star-Ledger, which reported on Chipotle's practice of rounding the change in receipt totals for cash transactions at some restaurants. These locations do this so that cashiers don't have to handle lots of coins, which tends to slow the lines down. If you've ever been to Chipotle, you know that the food is dished out in assembly-line style, where you place your order and then walk along the counter, telling the staff that, yes, you'd like some guacamole, please, but hold the rice. You pay at the end of the line. As...
  • Rounding up roadkill for shuttle safety - Kennedy Space Center

    04/27/2006 2:00:59 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 21 replies · 501+ views
    Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 4/27/06 | Irene Klotz
    CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA is trying to rid the Kennedy Space Center of vultures after the shuttle struck one of the large birds during lift-off last year on the first flight after the Columbia disaster. The space center has set up what it calls a "road kill posse" to quickly clear as many carcasses as possible from the 6,000-acre site (2,400-hectare), in hopes of encouraging the vulture population to relocate by cutting off its food supply. When shuttle Discovery lifted off the launch pad last July on the first flight since the 2003 Columbia accident, it hit a...