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Food Technology

Smile!

This week I will follow on the subject I talked about in my last post: cameras. Since its invention and access to the main public, cameras have evolved in many ways and directions. Once the technological advances allowed it, products focused in different market sectors started to appear. I got  the idea for this post in this video of Malcom Gladwell I saw a year ago on the great site TED.com (I really recommend it, and this one particular lecture is an example of how in marketing it is easy to explain concepts in a different but effective way).

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Food

Taco “Campana”

The last time I visited the USA I was an impressionable 17-year-old teenager (I’m 24 now, exchange student peculiarities you can say) that fell in love with one of the many fast food chains in the country: Taco Bell. It was cheap, it had mexican food (which I love despite being the opposite of my mediterranean diet) and it tasted great. But it wasn’t until this reading week, when I went to California, that I could finally visit again my beloved restaurant.

It is kind of surprising I could perfectly manage through the state with only my spanish, and Taco Bell was no exception. Employees spoke spanish fluently (granted his accent is way different than mine) and gave a friendly smile whenever they realized we shared languages. There I started to realize the targeted market was quite well defined. So a quick search on the net confirmed it on a video campaign:

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