HAS BREAKFAST IN BED GONE OUT OF STYLE? What Moms Really Want on Mother’s Day
first meal of the day in bed, and then their servants would handle all the spilled scone crumbs and messy breakfast residue. In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson dubbed Mother’s Day a national U.S. holiday, and a few years later, the aristocratic English tradition of breakfast in bed sailed across the pond to America. By the 1930s, food and bedding companies capitalized on the tradition and the new holiday by running ads in magazines and newspapers encouraging children and fathers to serve their matriarchs breakfast in bed. Since then, serving mothers breakfast in bed has become a popular Mother’s Day ritual around the world, and it remains so today. However, there is one group whose voice has been left out of the breakfast in bed conversation: mothers.
found that only 4% of moms polled want breakfast in bed. Yes, you read that right. When you factor in the mess of syrup, crumbs, and coffee spilling over clean sheets, it’s understandable. Today’s mothers usually don’t have servants to clean up afterward. The study also revealed what most moms prefer to do for breakfast on Mother’s Day: 53% of mothers like to go out, and 39% prefer brunch instead of breakfast. While breakfast in bed seems like a nice gesture, statistics show that it’s probably the last thing your mom wants to wake up to on May 10. This Mother’s Day, show your appreciation for your mom or the mother of your children by asking her what she would like to do. She deserves the holiday morning she desires, whether that includes a full breakfast in bed or a trip to her favorite brunch joint.
Serving breakfast in bed to moms, especially on Mother’s Day, has been a widespread tradition for years, but have you ever wondered if it’s what your mom really wants? Here’s a look at the Mother’s Day breakfast in bed tradition and some recent insight into the popular trend. According to Heather Arndt Anderson, author of “Breakfast: A History,” the popularity of breakfast in bed became widespread during the Victorian era, but only for married, wealthy women who had servants. Those women would enjoy their
In a recent study conducted by Zagat, a well-known dining survey site, researchers
A Candy Company That Refused to Fail For every great business idea, there are a million bad ones. However, just because a business fails initially does not mean it can’t rise from the ashes and go on to be successful. If you need proof, look no further than the candy company Project 7. Like many entrepreneurs before him, Project 7 founder Tyler Merrick started out with a dream to create a business that made a difference. Then, also like many entrepreneurs, he hit a roadblock in achieving that dream — his candy tasted terrible.
When Merrick started Project 7, he wanted to make candy using fresh, high- quality ingredients candy lovers everywhere could understand. Not only that, but he also wanted to create a business model that used a portion of its annual proceeds to address seven areas of basic humanitarian need: saving the earth, housing the homeless, feeding the hungry, quenching the thirsty, healing the sick, teaching the disenfranchised, and hoping for peace. Merrick’s goal was noble, but without a product that customers would buy up quickly, his dream of giving back would be dead in the water. Initially, that seemed like what would happen. Project 7 initially partnered with Whole Foods to sell its first product, an all-natural gum. However, Whole Foods didn’t place a second order, citing customer complaints that it just plain tasted bad.
new ingredients and pioneered new candy products, like organic gummy bears, sour ropes, lollipops, and sweet & spicy chews. Customers took notice of the new flavors, and before long, Project 7 was up and running for good, and so was its mission to give back. Project 7 has worked with several nonprofits to provide medical assistance to malaria patients in Africa and donated over 4 million meals to food banks in the United States, and that’s only scratching the surface. Tyler Merrick and Project 7 are a testament to the good that can come from perseverance, and they continue to inspire budding entrepreneurs everywhere to chase their dreams.
That might have been enough to lick the confidence of most entrepreneurs, but not Merrick. After this initial failure, he went back to the drawing board. He tried
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