How do you keep curious customers coming back for more?
As a business strategy, the use of art to lure curious customers seemed to be working.
Already, Ms. Maffei said, the three patches they planted at the bakery have brought in curious customers.
Eventually even the last live band was gone, and recorded music played through a sound system for a few curious customers in a large sour room.
He has prepared a short spiel for the benefit of curious customers who ask questions at farmers markets: "I tell them, anything you can do with a chicken egg you can do with a quail egg.
Along the way, Stones takes in EKO, a diminutive Toronto jewellery shop counter-intuitively designed to appear empty – until curious customers get inside and discover the display cases hidden between aluminium "ribs" in the wall.
As Soylent gets ready to make its first official delivery to 20,000+ curious customers this month, we take a look at other notable attempts to replace, redesign, or radically reimagine what we eat.
But Ms. Sabankaya, an organic gardener who grows some of the flowers she sells and dresses them up with organic myrtle, rose-scented geranium and other fragrant herbs, said she does a brisk Valentine's Day business — she sold 2,000 roses last year — and receives e-mail messages all the time from curious customers.
In Great Barrington, The Preservation Society (+1 413 429 6310, facebook.com/preservationsocietyrestaurant) is a new, simple but upscale annexe (next door to Route 7 Grill, a famed barbecue joint) that's attracting curious customers with its $100, five-course tasting menu featuring local producers.
