Nov 04 2009
TCBY video survey for MEINN’ers…STORE GIVEAWAY
My video camera wont allow traveling around but I think possibly a script as follows, and my little portable IBM may allow for “promises” from MEINN residents, possibly going so far as to submit to TCBY for a “Yogurt Store” giveaway, followed by FURTHER MEINN promotional options (at the aforesaid permission granting of TCBY of course); and legal eeee’ing the chance for an adjunct “TCBY_MEINN” to keep this place going - of course, check out both websites as follows — and my video ideas — for the 2 minute contest (rules apply) for thousands of dollars worth of TCBY giveaway STORES!!!
Where does my impetus originate–
Options to read aloud, find MEINN women who can, want to briefly take the survey…
1. 4 visible empty Ben & Jerry Cartons of Frozen Yogurt - (mine was Light Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough $5.25 for 473 ml - 4 servings , 180 calories and 24 g. sugar at the local store about 5 blocks away)…. other wrapper remnants of cones and similar double-thick cartons were peaking out of the trashcan located next to the MEINN water fountain -
For our TCBY store, clean water of course would be dispensed in a filtered water container at the TCBY store located within 4 “yelping” blocks of the MEINN location (currently at 1040 Bush Street, Room 101, San Francisco, CA) - http://www.meinn.org — a place/INN for women - low-income, in need and self-supporting.
2. Women here often work but only part-time and many volunteer. Food is superbly prepared but not often vegetariann - and comes from donated ingredients (tonight’s entre by Lilly was roasted peppers, and fried pork - original, superb looking and there’s always a salad and bread type item available, as well as 50 calorie vitamin water)… BUT NO TCBY - though it’s a full kitchen and there are large restaurant style refrigerators, it’s a 90 women housing facility, redecorated and originated in 1914 - built –C could stand for Charlotte, who used to live here.
3. The TCBY needs to hire these women to keep frozen yogurt prices low, add interesting names to turnaround flavor options, and make the calories stay within a reasonable nutrition conscious level for the women (there was yoga offered but budget cuts ended this. Meinn could bring back these classes - women could buy new clothes with funds, etc…and dessert would be only blocks way from dinner - or optionally offered as a protein alternative for lactose intolerant women, for instance (which myself as a poor vegetarian fall into a similar type category). Milk has a whole new meaning for the lunch tickets available at MEINN (Mary Elizabeth Inn’s acronym).
4. Women could also work at TCBY as “Meinn Deliverer’s” walking 4 -5 block radius of the San Francisco Streets to deliver Yogurt (or biking, since there are bike racks here - and these could be donated between MEINN and TCBY - TCBY BIKES!)
5. There are about 400 different locations advertised as “yogurt friendly” when you search stores on Yelp! for Yogurt - BUT my walk and search led me NOWHERE! Thus, Ben & Jerry’s or other store shelf yogurt was located only, like ummmm…that other brand, selling lite that’s 22 g. of sugar. Most other stores are iether not advertised or for instance 2 locations i called dont either offer frozen yogurt any longer or referenced “Gelato”. Mission District in san francisco offers severaal yogurt serve-self locations which are great ! priced by weight of purchase which is also nice, but calories are not listed, and the option for container sizes is also limited. TCBY is better ! and MEINN’s wholly-owned subsidiary store (TCBY original - with me Claire Frances as main owner- somehow incorporating a non-profit giveaway 2nd hand status - details would require legal help).
Anyway, store could offer sizes with “refill” containers that can be purchased separately, for people wanting “take-out” option for recycle purposes, rather than constantly throwing away TCBY containers which are not economical to trash and recycle — this is a yogurt issue similarly solved like the 1930’s San francsico milk pick-ups of glass bottles. Really no one has done it better since.
5. Finally, MEINN women want to look GOOD! and vegetarian meals though sometimes exceptionally put together by Lilly “the meinn rift”, aren’t the daily fare here. I have uploaded my FAcebook rendition of what MEINN could be headed for if all the women were hired to work at my store TCBY!
See below for the hope of the new MEINN (PS: THis foto was a spam sent invite to my email, request author credits from me via this post if interested or view it online to download from Claire Frances at Facebook.
