{"id":64523,"date":"2013-04-03T17:08:25","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T17:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.goingconcern.com\/?p=64523"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T05:00:00","slug":"going-concern-march-madness-busy-season-survival-food-beverage-vs-technology-final-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goingconcern.com\/going-concern-march-madness-busy-season-survival-food-beverage-vs-technology-final-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Concern March Madness: Busy Season Survival &#8212; Food &#038; Beverage vs. Technology, The Final Four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/bracket-week-3-large.png\" style=\"line-height: 1.538em; width: 570px; height: 292px; float: left;\" \/>Well, we have our survivors from GCMMBSSF&amp;BvsT. It&#39;s been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goingconcern.com\/post\/going-concern-march-madness-busy-season-survival-food-beverage-vs-technology\">quite a journey so far<\/a>, and now we will crown the kings of both Food &amp; Beverage and Tech in your quest to come out of busy season with your sanity intact.<\/p>\n<p>So let&#39;s get to it. We&#39;re keeping the polls open until Friday at 1 pm ET so you can stuff the channels appropriately.<\/p>\n<p><!--pagebreak--><\/p>\n<p><u><strong>The Battle of the Booze<\/strong><\/u><br \/><span style=\"line-height: 1.538em;\">I suppose we shouldn&#39;t be surprised to see an all-booze final in the F&amp;B region. The dream showdown between coffee and booze was never meant to be and I suppose a liquid lunch is far fewer calories than anything at Chipotle, so there you have it.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As for this match-up, I see a potential weakness in booze&#39;s game here and that is this &#8212; the non-drinkers still attend happy hours, scarf the light hors d&#39;oeuvres, and chuckle at the dummies who drink themselves into a blind stupor. But the real question is &#8212; do the teetotalers and those who prefer the presence of other humans outnumber the garden variety boozehounds? This is will be exciting.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.easypolls.net\/ext\/scripts\/emPoll.js?p=515c59ede4b090005f2cf636\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div style=\"font: 9px arial; color: gray;\"><a class=\"OPP-powered-by\" href=\"http:\/\/www.objectplanet.com\/opinio\/\" style=\"text-decoration:none;\">surveys<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!--pagebreak--><\/p>\n<p><u><strong>The Technology Tango<\/strong><\/u><br \/><span style=\"line-height: 1.538em;\">In the Tech region, the top two seeds did not disappoint. Now w e will finally determine which cause of eye strain is key to your busy season survival &#8212; looking at endless rows of numbers or the small screen that is far more interesting than your signifcant other.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.easypolls.net\/ext\/scripts\/emPoll.js?p=515c5bcae4b090005f2cf637\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div style=\"font: 9px arial; color: gray;\"><a class=\"OPP-powered-by\" href=\"http:\/\/www.objectplanet.com\/opinio\/\" style=\"text-decoration:none;\">surveys<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.538em;\">&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we have our survivors from GCMMBSSF&amp;BvsT. It&#39;s been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goingconcern.com\/post\/going-concern-march-madness-busy-season-survival-food-beverage-vs-technology\">quite a journey so far<\/a>, and now we will crown the kings of both Food &amp; Beverage and Tech in your quest to come out of busy season with your sanity intact.<\/p>\n<p>So let&#39;s get to it. We&#39;re keeping the polls open until Friday at 1 pm ET so you can stuff the channels appropriately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5796],"tags":[10448,1859,10390,4811,1074],"class_list":["post-64523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-serious-questions","tag-booze-vs-technology","tag-brackets","tag-busy-season-survival","tag-gc-march-madness","tag-vote"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.2 (Yoast SEO v23.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Going Concern March Madness: Busy Season Survival - Food &amp; Beverage vs. Technology, The Final Four - Going Concern<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goingconcern.com\/going-concern-march-madness-busy-season-survival-food-beverage-vs-technology-final-four\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Going Concern March Madness: Busy Season Survival -- Food &amp; Beverage vs. Technology, The Final Four\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Well, we have our survivors from GCMMBSSF&amp;BvsT. 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