Did you know that without the extra revenue from popcorn stands, many theaters would have gone under during the Depression? Americans eat more than 15 billion quarts of popcorn a year. Now that’s an industry! What product or service does your company rely upon for the majority of it’s revenue? According to marketing and sales experts 80% of your sales are generated by a mere 10-20% of your product line. If that’s the case for you, would it make sense to find ways to sell even more of that 10-20%?Did you know (Popcorn Trivia)?
Americans consume 1.12 billion pounds of popcorn a year.
Popcorn was the first food to be microwaved deliberately.
The oldest ears of popping corn were discovered in a bat cave in New Mexico; they are over 5,500 years old.
Popcorn was used as a festive decoration (as garland for Christmas trees) but it was not eaten as a snack until the 1800s.
Indiana is America’s popcorn capital. There’s even a town called Popcorn.
In an average bag of popcorn, the number of yellow kernels will outnumber the white ones by 9 to 1.
Today is also:
Video Games Day
