Flavor Town Corporation resulted from the coffee pod craze. Nelson and Brian, two brothers began testing their products in small control groups across the country and were receiving very favorable results. The moment they brought investors onboard; their idea quickly took off.
The idea behind Flavor Town is all about the flavor. People enjoy eating because the food tastes good, so not only did pods now contain coffee, but they also included steak, bacon, mashed potatoes with butter. Everything you could think of was being put into pods.
The Food and Drug Administration kept a close eye on their process, as well as their ingredients. Having everything contained in pods meant controlling times and temperatures was easy. Dates produced and Best-by dates were clearly stamped on each pod.
The same coffee pot used to heat coffee was now also being used to heat Dinner-in-a-Pod. Once heated to the proper temperature, the lid of the pod was peeled back and the dinner fell onto the dinner plate and slowly expanded to normal size. Nobody could tell the difference between a traditional meal and Dinner-in-a-Pod. It was simply a vast improvement on the TV dinners of the 1950’s.
Supermarkets soon
shrunk to the size of convenience stores.
No longer were there long, wide aisles, lined with shelves of different
size products. Everything became large
bins full of pods, and shopping carts were replaced with hand-carried
baskets. Well-marked bins, including
barcodes that registered your total the moment the pod entered your
basket. Your total bill was
automatically deducted from your previously established account. No longer were there registers to deal with
before you left the store. You simply
walked out with your dinner pods, leaving your basket on the conveyor belt that
automatically ran it through a sanitizing process, leaving a clean, germ-free
basket ready for the next person to enter the store.


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