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	<description>Memorable customer service...mostly.</description>
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		<title>By: Steve Curtin &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Without competition, quality suffers</title>
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		<dc:creator>Steve Curtin &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Without competition, quality suffers</dc:creator>
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		<description>[...] business operates with a scarcity mentality that suggests that there’s a finite “pie” and that, if you get a larger slice of the pie, [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Jeffrey Summers</title>
		<link>http://www.stevecurtin.com/blog/2008/05/15/when-companies-compete-products-get-better/comment-page-1/#comment-801</link>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Summers</dc:creator>
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		<description>You cannot compete with or change guest&#039;s preferences. You can only influence them and the owner needs to innovate his way to the other side of the dilemma or he won&#039;t last another 4 years. 

Good post Steve. I become an even bigger fan with each one.

Jeffrey Summers, President
Restaurant Coaching Solutions</description>
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<p>Good post Steve. I become an even bigger fan with each one.</p>
<p>Jeffrey Summers, President<br />
Restaurant Coaching Solutions</p>
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