Food

Excited to Try Krispy Kreme Gingerbread Glazed Donut for Christmas?

Published

7 months ago

December 17, 2019

Dan Micheals

Guess what’s in store this holiday season from Krispy Kreme? Forget about calorie counting. It is the season to stuff your face with everything beautiful, and that includes the comeback of Krispy Kreme’s gingerbread glazed donuts. This donut chain certainly prepared a lot for these holidays.

Gingerbread donuts have been a favourite for a lot this season, but the company made it even luscious that you cannot refuse to have. This time, the new variant donuts have a cheese-cake flavoured filling.

During the Krispy Kreme press release, a spokesperson for Gingerbread People of America said. “Many of us made it through the last holiday season fully intact, but we lost too many good Gingerbread people to cookie consumption. He added, “To save ourselves, we ventured north… far north… to recruit the king of cookie connoisseurs, Santa Claus, to sign a proclamation giving up gingerbread cookies and switching to Krispy Kreme doughnuts.”

The classic gingerbread donut has the gingerbread spice, and cinnamon dough with gingerbread molasses glaze whereas the other one would have a generous filling of cheesecake cream. The Chief Marketing Officer of Krispy Kreme announced “We want Santa to be happy. We want Gingerbread people to be happy. So, we’re doubling our efforts to help save gingerbread people by offering two delicious gingerbread doughnuts.”

Starting on Monday, the company will be selling these gingerbread donuts to satisfy the holiday cravings of the people. These donuts are part of the yearly campaign of Krispy Kreme to spare the gingerbread people. They posted a video on Twitter promoting their donuts.

In the video, you would see a gingerbread man so happy to announce that Santa has signed a proclamation saying he won’t eat gingerbread people and switch to gingerbread donuts to keep all gingerbread people safe. The clip ended with “ Land a spot on the nice list. Be like Santa, choose gingerbread glazed donuts”.

People should hurry up and try these two delicious donuts because they’re only served until Christmas eve at participating Krispy Kreme shops all over the US.

Some of you may remember that accident with a Krispy Kreme delivery truck. Dozens of donuts were scattered all over the road. The police from Brookhaven, who were the first ones to arrives, were sad. They were too late “The response time was stellar” in their viral photo on Facebook, but we couldn’t beat the 5-second rule 😢.”

So, people who want to get in the holiday spirit, a donut won’t hurt, but it could save some gingerbread people. The cream cheese filling would make your winter very cosy.

Don’t forget that this season, there’s a golden rule that should guide you Calories don’t count over Christmas. Or not unless you want to spend it like any other ordinary day of the year.

These donuts won’t be back for the longest time again. Gingerbread lovers, go and get yourselves a fix of this. These are great for sharing with your families and friends or maybe even all to yourself.

Business

China: Luckin Coffee Shares Fall After $310M Potential Fraud

Published

3 months ago

April 2, 2020

Abhishek Jariwala

Luckin Coffee has disclosed on Thursday that they made an internal investigation, and its chief operating officer fabricated their sales in 2019 by 2.2 billion yuan ($310 million).

The shares plummeted by 80% after they released the filing.

The Chief Operating Officer, Jian Liu, and other employees who were reporting to him were engaging themselves in misconduct and are now suspended.

The company will be taking legal action for people who took part in it and are responsible for those conducts. Jian could not be found anymore for an interview.

Luckin is a two and a half-year-old company and has goals to overtake Starbucks in China, the top coffee chain currently in the country.

The investors are not relying on their previous financial statements and earnings, which were released for nine months. They announced earlier that heir net sales for the first nine months of 2019 were 2.9 billion yuan ($413 million).

In their statement, “As a result, investors should no longer rely upon the company’s previous financial statements and earnings releases for the nine months ended September 30, 2019, and the two quarters starting April 1, 2019, and ended September 30, 2019, including the prior guidance on net revenues from products for the fourth quarter of 2019, and other communications relating to these consolidated financial statements.

The company said that its investigation is still at its initial stage, and its independent auditor does not verify estimates of the fabrication of sales. Kirkland & Ellis will do their counseling and FTI Consulting for forensic accounting expertise.

Back in January, the Muddy Waters Research said that they found something fraudulent with their business.

On its official Twitter page, it said, MW is short $LK. We received an unattributed 89-page report alleging $LK is a fraud: “number of items per store per day was inflated by at least 69% in 2019 3Q and 88% in 2019 4Q, supported by 11,260 hours of store traffic video” We view the work as credible.

However, Luckin replied and said that the seller’s report was false and misleading. The founder of Muddy Waters said Luckin shows precisely why we need short sellers in the market. We believed this report was credible when we read it, and that’s why we took a position.

This is again a wake-up call for U.S. policymakers, regulators, and investors about the extreme fraud risk China-based companies pose to our markets.”

In May, Luckin started its trade on the Nasdaq, and since then, making it to the public market, it gave the company a market value of $1.3 billion. Furthermore, the company has tried a customer-based format and offering excellent discounts to the market.

For January of this year, it already has more than 4,500 branches in China, a few hundred more than Starbucks in the country. Starbucks, on the other hand, responded to its competitiveness and opened more cafes in China for quick picks and delivery and less on seating capacities in their cafes.

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Food

Horrible Coronavirus Prank: Woman Coughs at Fresh Produce in Pennsylvania Supermarket

Published

3 months ago

March 26, 2020

Abhishek Jariwala

Despite the different challenges, the novel coronavirus has gotten to people; some still lack empathy and are unthoughtful over the welfares of others.

A woman doing her shopping yesterday at the Gerrity’s Supermarket at the Hanover Township, Pennsylvania, coughed all over the store’s fresh produce, at that time many believe they have a coronavirus and has resulted in a lot of food waste and rotten.

The owner believes that this is a twisted prank of her.

The store has to throw everything she came in contact with, including the bakery and meat case for safety and health reasons.

This nuisance and wastage cost about $35,000 and not to mention the workforce disinfecting the area together with a health inspector.

The good part was that they were able to take out the prankster from the store and contacted the authorities.

The owner said they would fill numerous charges to her. It is unclear yet if the woman is infected with the novel coronavirus.

Here is the whole post from Gerrity’s Supermarket on their Facebook page:

The post has 4700 comments, 11,000 shares, and 10,000 emoji reactions.

One Facebook user said, “Please sue her personally. Make an example of people like her so that maybe they’ll be a little more afraid to be the sorry excuses of human beings that they are. Thank you for taking precautions.”

Another one said, ” Causing or risking a catastrophe, reckless endangerment, criminal mischief and disorderly conduct -just to name a few charges she should be charged with! And TOTAL RESTITUTION!”