Oliver said last week at the preview of his Channel 4 documentary, Jamie's Sugar Rush, that he would institute his own "sugar tax" on customers ordering sweet drinks such as colas and lemonades in his restaurants.
BNB's managers, he said, "calibrated our growth based on customer orders in our books, and our books were more than full".
Lawrence Cohn, with Ryan, Beck Southeast Research, said the core bond, interest-rate-related and foreign exchange businesses were weak, and its proprietary trading gains went counter to the bank's strategy of reducing its own risk and relying on customer orders to make money.
In other words, they will make to stock (MTS) (Altendorfer and Minner 2014; Shi et al. 2014) based on forecasts, rather than make to order (MTO) based on customer orders.
Plan well and a factory can be very profitable but plan badly and the same factory could deliver late on customer orders, overspend on equipment and materials and have its margins destroyed".
Shoppers can use the service to select a delivery window, from morning to 9 p.m. Delivery drivers will then be routed efficiently based on customer orders, and will show up driving Google's new hybrid fleet of vehicles branded "Google Shopping Express".
Poppin staffers take turns showing gratitude with handwritten "thank you" notes personalized based on customer orders.
Three of the 11 chains in the study beat the average: McDonald's, Au Bon Pain and KFC showed significant drops in calories of customers' orders, on the order of 40 to 80 calories per person.
To compete with rival prices, Instinet is doctoring its own pricing schedules and offering clients commission breaks based on the size of customers orders.
This has even meant having to black out the section concerning guarantees on customer order forms.
