But she said she hoped an efficiency drive, including using technology to serve customers faster, would let Whitbread keep prices stable.
They are hoping for efficiency gains that come with volume, like bundling two or three orders in each delivery.
Ultimately, they hope, capture efficiency will replace airflow as the most prominent performance metric printed on range-hood labels and as the basis for ENERGY STAR ratings.
WHEN the managers of Le Monde introduced computers to the paper's print works in the early 1990s, they hoped for greater efficiency and lower costs.
By opening the door to competition, the Fair Trade Commission said it hoped to increase efficiency -- even though few expect Pohang to face a challenge anytime soon.
The superintendent, Col. Carson J. Dunbar Jr., said he hoped to improve efficiency by eliminating a two-hour overlap that resulted from the 10-hour shifts that troopers work in a four-day week.
It is hoped that the efficiency of these newly-designed transgenic Arabidopsis plants will be validated in field experiments in the near future.
A new main sewer line, known as a force main, was installed along Pacific Coast Highway, and workers hoped to improve efficiency by rerouting some home sewage lines from a series of small pumping stations to it.
It's evidently hoping improved efficiencies in its back end infrastructure, plus a continued commitment to "zero knowledge encryption" (client-side encryption) will help it hold on to most of its customers and continue to attract new ones.
Instead of the cost-efficiencies hoped for, Cumbria's councillors say they tussled with contractors and lacked the bargaining power to keep prices down.
