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Unbox the Fun: Choosing a daily Work-Life Fun

No matter how it’s wrapped, there’s always that emotional twitch as your hands get nearer to anything that’s covered.

Love the launching phrase to begin with. Such a grabber! – “Unbox the Fun”. During the launching event in fact, it seemed like I’m seeing a gigantic box slowly being lowered from the ceiling as the program nears to the divulgence of the intriguing new fun products. I have to say the phrase is such a stimulant, opportune for a launching event. My speculations thrilled me segment after segment that night. It’s always been exciting to open a box. No matter how it’s wrapped, there’s always that emotional twitch as your hands get nearer to anything that’s covered.

After leaving a fun hangover in Palawan, Mister Donut’s “Unbox the Fun” groundbursts in Davao, March 16 at the Duterte street branch, Quirino Avenue, bringing more festivities to the city’s 80th Charter Day.

It’s always been exciting to open a box. No matter how it’s wrapped, there’s always that emotional twitch as your hands get nearer to anything that’s covered.

UNBOXING A WICKED BOX

For hot food predators like me, this is a new fun prey! Mister Donut’s first fried-on-spot donuts served in their dine shops, the WICKED PUFFS. May it be a day of stressful board room discussions or a smooth close of a deal, let the sprinklings manage those buds to revitalize your working mood. Sprinkle, top, or swirl sweet and vibrant choices of Hazelnut, Belgian chocolates and Strawberries and cream. I don’t want to suggest that this is a perfect post shift therapy (and gastronomy!) to relieve some tensions out for that another hassle the next day. Ask you work buddy after 5 and have fun 35PhP for 6!

UNBOXING A FREEZING BOX

Exhibit events, site visits or any out-from-desk deliverables can be a total exhaustion. Not to mention, the summer sun is now slowly scorching our integuments which piles a reason more of impatience at times especially if the work day isn’t that so smooth. A super quencher which you could indulge handy for your on-the-go kind of day or a short break venting-out inside the cozier Mister Donut cafes, the world’s best brew is given with a freezing touch, Mister Donut’s BREWZEES. For 70PhP, this doesn’t hurt your frugal millennial pocket turning the occasional to a habitual frozen coffee ritual. Not the bad work day, just the frozen coffee ritual. Habitual.

UNBOXING THE BIGGER BOX

We may have differences with our team mates but it’s always been therapeutic to spend a work break with them. After all, methods and personality may vary, but we are in unison with our team goal. Initiate this office fellowship with the bigger portions of our all time favorite Bavarian and Choco Cake donuts. With the same then price, a box would surely lubricate the team’s determination with a fun touch still at 18PhP a piece.

May it be selling a product to a prospect, a system to the share holders or simply your idea to your head and the team, Doughnut-Coffee tandem will always be a power sales tool morsel in and outside the pitch room. The sweetness of these dough, ringed or filled just tastefully complement with the coffee. Work is work but you could make it fun. Unbox that closer in you who persuades for the elusive choice of daily work-life fun.

Little Known Sales Secrets of Cafe Floorings

Watch your step!

There is more to this warning than being careful. Sometimes, it simply suggests to look what meets your gait down there. People choose the way where we are walking in. We are able to choose through looking at it whether by far as we approach our destination or just simply looking down to check where we are at the moment.

Whatever is catchy to our eyes affects where our next step is that leads to where we wanted to be. I am not even an expert in the coalescence of interior designing and marketing. However, in almost every off-day I spent in cafes, those which I also admire their floor materials of course, and with the sprinkle of sales theories incurred from work, I happened to notice the behavior of customers relating to the floor characteristics they choose to trot in. A natural, so human response as basis on the latest trend on sales and flooring.

1. Set JUST fronting the counter. This is where the guests queue for their orders. This attracts them to approach directly near the counter without being too obvious that you want them to swiftly choose and pay their orders as they near the cashier. They are simply pulled (not pushed) to the sales by the optical attraction. It simply signals that there is the finish line. That’s what you are here for and there’s a monetary exchange of what you have chosen.

Orient your crew to ask a choice close question from your offerings whenever a guest consciously or unconsciously stepped in the flooring. Hot or Cold? Snacks or Heavy meal?

Not “How may I help you?”.

It is even ethical to ask since the floor is fronting the counter right? It is an assume close that they will cast their orders since they are already standing front of the menu just above the cashier.

2. PATTERNED LIKE A PATHWAY/ ISLE/ POINTING from the entrance to the counter. This shows warmth of welcome, belongingness and confidence of knowing which way they go. This is even helpful when owners don’t have a lot of service crew who welcomes and escorts guests toward the counter. The guests feel every step they are taking without realizing they are simply guided going towards the counter to start the sales relationship sooner. This avoids them from sitting first on the chairs or go to the powder room and might change minds for another cafe.

3. SET IN AN ONLY CORNER/ TABLE. After gratifying their choices at the counter, it’s time now to experience the table memoirs. There must be one corner where there is a unique flooring. Not all customers could step in whenever it’s already occupied. It triggers envy to other customer and curiosity on how does it feel being on that spot. They will remind their brains to be back and be the first to sit next time. The it-is-not-for-everyone kind thing. This is more of an ego stimulation.

4. TABLES NEAR WHERE THE AD STANDS for newly launched menu inclusions. As they stay longer because of the comforts and exclusivity that floor emits, they could glance through the new offers and would be triggered to try it from being lured of frequently looking to it. Curiosity and information in one plot drive to a new sale. Guests are simply clung to that corner nearer your promotional materials because of the floor effect compared to those on the farther/ to the rest of the other tables.

The satiety and taste and service of your offerings and personnel respectively are totally another substantial stories. Consider those enumerated. Even flooring of your establishment says something to your daily yield if not, gives great anabolism of your hard earned capital. And remember always keep these floors tidy. This is now one of your trademarks and it should be walk-able whether with a footwear or just mere soles.

Trust me, those really work. Those what I always feel whenever there’s a new cafe, with extraordinary flooring around.

How an Expert Starts to have Fun Learning Again

Some fun educative sorts of ways to spice up the predictable corporate routine.

Six months after getting the promotion, I started feeling so proficient doing the things my work required me to accomplish. Perhaps I was really extraordinary at my previous work post that adjusting for the more demanding responsibilities seemed to appear so basic. Yes, I felt that too. When I listened to my mind whispering those two previous sentences, it felt so absurd. I knew there was something wrong. There was something to be done. There was something to be learned. That my mind was such a swindler tricking me that I was just a vowel away to be omniscient.

It took about two months after I came back to the rationality that maybe what I was feeling was exactly a sign that I have to look for something new to challenge my competitive soul. I surely knew it was not enrolling in a post graduate school, just some fun educative sorts of ways to spice up the predictable corporate routine.

If you ever feel the same, these might be things worth to try :

JOIN CLASSES AT CO-WORKING SPACES

These are talks done at exclusive meeting rooms in cafes or at co-working spaces. Follow the Facebook page of coffee shops around your place. They post announcements about 2-hour classes as they collaborate with people who conduct speaking events on a topic you might be interested in. These are usually filtered up to 15 attendees which the first meeting is usually free. Have fun learning and creating connections as well. Your seatmate can be a new found friend or a business partner material. Indulge in the variety of personalities and corporate titles.

POST YOUR BOOK REVIEW ONLINE

Reading books is a classic advice to continue learning. Enjoy every chapter by sharing your impression online. You can ignite sensible discussions among fellow readers through digitized book review forum on social media platforms like Reddit. You can also simply create a group chat with friends and discuss about the book you all have read. It is online and it is exciting!

DATE A HUMAN LIBRARY

Look for a friend or an acquaintance who is knowledgeable about a topic you want to know. Treat him to a coffee or a meal. You can write notes, ask for a demonstration or just simply interact like a casual conversation. You can agree to schedule it weekly until you are well-informed about the matter and for as long as you both still enjoy the meet up (of course). The intimacy of talking to someone face to face makes this fun and more informative, and affective. Try this on your next off-day and be sure to sponsor the bill every time.

In hindsight, losing the challenge of doing your work from the belief that you are already an “expert” consistently hitting your target, is still categorically a symptom of being burnt out. Yes, you can be burnt out and still sharply hit the work requirements. Intrinsically fed up and still occupationally productive.

Do not look for a new job. Just look for something new. Something that is fun yet educative. You have an endless array of choices: Refresh the basics of your profession, learn a side topic of your industry, update yourself on the latest trends of the market or unlock your potentials on a whole new rewarding field. Truly, there are a lot of knowledge and skills this world has for us to be learnt. Most of these are fun and do not necessarily have to be costly. You are not an expert.