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New Idea for Starting a Business: “Good Food Good Gas”

By Howard Charles Best, August 16, 2000

(LLBest.com)

FACT #1: A growing number of people prefer organically grown foods.

FACT #2: A growing number of people are vegetarians.

FACT #3: A growing number of people are vegans (vegetarians who also don’t eat dairy products).

FACT #4: A growing number of people in America are of East Asian descent.

PROBLEM

The above four categories of people are hard pressed to find anything to eat while traveling.

SOLUTION

A nationwide chain of health food stores, located at convenient interstate highway exits, which also sell cheap gas. Each of these stores should be kept open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Each of these stores should have a bulk foods section which would include bulk snacks, such as carob candies, and dried fruit and nut mixes. They should also have a deli section, and a juice bar.

Each of these stores should also sell vegetarian dairy alternatives, in order to cater to vegans.

Gas should be sold at or near cost, or even at a slight loss, just to get travelers to stop.

So as not to offend vegetarians, or people with certain Eastern religious beliefs, the following 12 types of foods should be banned at Good Food Good Gas:

1. Meat. (Substitute curd deep fried in ghee, a dairy product.)

2. Fish.

3. Eggs. (For baking, substitute yogurt or egg replacer.)

4. Mushrooms.

5. Chocolate. (Substitute carob.)

6. Foods containing onions (Substitute asafoetida.).

7. Foods containing garlic (Substitute asafoetida.).

8. Foods containing alcohol.

9. Foods containing vinegar.

10. Foods containing gelatin. (Substitute pectin.)

11. Foods containing rennet.

12. As far as possible, foods fried in vegetable oil. (Substitute foods fried in ghee.)

This nationwide chain of gas stations / health food stores could also include additional conveniences for travelers such as the following:

1. Men’s and women’s locker rooms with showers, and possibly saunas.

2. An exercise room.

3. A swimming pool.

4. Men’s and women’s sleeping rooms.

5. A computer room with Internet access.

6. A laundromat.

7. A convenience store.

8. A surround sound video theater with a DVD player and connections for the audio and video outputs of laptop computers.

9. A conference room.

10. A vegetarian restaurant.

11. A library style reading room.

12. A lending service for books, DVDs, audio CDs, MP3 CDs and audio tapes, especially self-help audio CDs/tapes and audio books (Returnable at any Good Food Good Gas).

CONCLUSION

A nationwide chain of health food stores, located at convenient interstate highway exits, which also sell cheap gas would be very successful.


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