California Here We Come

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San Francisco, Here We Come:

I have an interesting story about how far we are willing to go to service our customers….

One of our customers, a retail pretzel brand (Pretzel Maker), needed 2000 t-shirts for an event. While this sounds like the perfect order, the details soon brought perspiration to our brows.

Revelation 1: The T-shirts would be needed to be completed In ONE week. Ohhhhkay, we can figure that out… two days to receive the blanks and 24 hour printing shifts…

Revelation 2: Each white T-shirt was to have a design with 7 colors on the back and 3 colors on the front. But, the design wouldn’t be approved until the day the blanks arrived…

Revelation 3: The customer was on a very tight budget for this event. We would have to re-design a bit to reduce the number of colors and setups in the print in order to make it work within the budget and not lose our “shirts”.

Revelation 4: Once we got to the halfway point, we find out that the shirts are needed, not in Salt Lake where we are printing them, but in San Francisco. Yes, as in CALIFORNIA.

The budget did not allow for overnight shipping, or even 2nd day shipping, (which was the latest option available for the shirts to reach the venue in time) so we checked into trucking companies and trains…

All of our options were exhausted, but we were not going to tell this good customer “no”. So, we rented a U-Haul trailer, hooked it up and hauled them ourselves. Took turns driving and arrived on location with some time to spare (about 45 minutes).

The REALLY SUPER GOOD part of the story is this: we brought our daughter, Sierra and our niece BreckLee with us and made it a weekend vacation.

We visited old war ships and had a very nice veteran teach us all about the weapons. Visited the Golden Gate Bridge and relaxed on a pier. We giggled, sang and laughed the whole time!

Both of the girls are teens now, (Brecklee is 17 and Sierra is 13) but they both remember this trip as a great time, even though it was only 4 days (total with driving) and we were supposed to be “working”.

We are thankful to our customers for providing us with many opportunities over the years to teach our children about customer service (optimism), dedication (resilience) and hard work (fun)!

Ensign Energy Drilling Featured on Where in the Town: NBC 9 News in Denver Colorado

Ensign Energy Drilling, wearing Tough Tech fr coveralls, was featured on Colorado’s NBC Affiliate NBC 9′s program, “Where in the Town”? The news crew came on location to visit Ensign drilling rig 132 in La Salle, Colorado. The purpose of the story was to tell how the natural gas and oil business is benefiting the Colorado economy. They broke in several times during their morning news program and highlighted various aspects of Ensign’s business. During the segments, the workers involved are seen wearing Tough Tech manufactured coveralls, decorated and supplied by Master Brands.

Here is a compilation video of each segment throughout that morning.

Tough Tech Coveralls Logo

Tough Tech Coveralls Logo

Come to the Masterbrands Scrub Closeout Sale

If you’re a medical professional residing or working in the Salt Lake City area, you’re invited to a Scrub Closeout event on Friday, September 23rd from 10a.m. to 3p.m. at the offices of Masterbrands, 3477 West 1820 South, Salt Lake City UT 84101. All scrub tops, bottoms, and labcoats are only $3.99 a piece. These are closeout prices. Over 600 pieces, ready to go.  If you find this post after the sale, please visit Scwubs for more information, pricing, and shipping.

Masterbrands Scrubs

Extreme Makeover Home Edition Comes to South Jordan Utah and Master Brands is a part of it.

Do you like Ty Pennington and the Extreme Makeover Home Edition Crew? Do you like how they build a house from scratch and suprise the family? Well they are near Master Brands’ Headquarters in the Daybreak neighborhood of South Jordan in Utah this week to surprise the Gomez family.

What’s really cool is that one of Master Brands’ clients Maggie Moos is providing free tshirts and ice cream for the crews working on the project. Who do you think is doing said tshirts? You guessed it Master Brands.

Check out this link to check in on the project.

Be looking for the episode on ABC in the fall.

The Pink Scrubs Video

We know that all of you have been waiting on baited breath for the Pink Scrubs Video. If you’ll harken back to this blog post of July 28th, 2010, you’ll remember that Master Brands created a special scrub for Cuyuna Regional Medical Center for their Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure® team. They created a video to showcase the cause, and they’re wearing the scrubs in it. So without further adieu here is the video. Way to go Cuyuna Regional Medical Center!!!

The Importance of Corporate Uniforms

By John F Black

In an era where each individual is unique in their clothing style choices, many corporations have found it necessary to require their employees wear corporate uniforms. Some may be upset by the idea of being told exactly what to wear to work each day, while others may welcome the idea of not having to think about what to wear. Ultimately, there are many important reasons why a company would require you to wear a uniform.

One of the main important reasons why many corporations have turned to uniforms is that it helps the company to market their name. When your employees are wearing custom made uniforms with your embroidered name and logo on them, you are continuously exposing your customers to your logo. If you choose a specific combination of colors, your customers begin to identify those colors with your company. Proper marketing is all about continuous exposure and what better way to continuously expose your company then with your employees clothing.

Another reason why corporate uniforms have become so popular, is that it takes away the need to constantly check and regulate the dress code. A company’s image is determined by its employees. If your employees are dressed inappropriately, it makes your company look bad. Imposing a dress code on your employees can be difficult enforce, seeing how some individuals may take it personally if they are told that their attire is inappropriate. So to simplify things and to make for neat and clean appearances, many companies now choose to have uniforms.

If your business is a service based business like a hotel, airline, or even store, corporate uniforms help your clients to identify the employees. When you have a company where a lot of individuals from the outside come in, if your employees are dressed similar it can leave your customers guessing who works for you. By wearing uniforms, you take the guess work out and your customers will know exactly who they need to turn to for help.

As you can see adding corporate uniforms to your company’s policy can help you in so many ways, whether its marketing, keeping a great image or providing your customers with excellent service.

If you feel that your company is in need of a uniform program, then Master Brands is the place for you. We offer uniform programs of all sorts. From Custom Printed T-shirts to full fledged Fire Resistant Gear, we can meet any need your company might have.

The Basics of Welding Safety (3 Part Series)

SafetyGuy08 from safetycommunity.com posted a great 3 part series on Welding Safety. The links to the 3 articles are below but first here is a little excerpt that talks about the important of FRC Safety clothing:

Certain precautions therefore have to be taken in order to avoid burns. Bare skin is, of course, not recommended. Flame retardant and fire resistant clothing is necessary. In addition, a certain number of other issues have to be taken into consideration:

  • No pockets – With flying super heated debris flying around, pockets are a hazard. Hot pieces can land inside a pocket and burn without being able to fall away.
  • Buttoned up collars – Keeping flying debris out of the neck line is essential
  • Shirts outside of the pants – Tucking the shirts inside the pants creates the same type of issue that pockets do. Shirts outside of the pants allow the hot particles to fall away rather than simmering.
  • Pants without cuffs – Cuffs end up essentially being the same thing as pockets.
  • Flammable and combustible material needs to be far from the welding area. Sparks and debris can be projected up to 35 feet or more.
  • The rules above about clothing apply to co-workers and others who might be in the immediate vicinity
  • Know the location of the fire extinguishers before you start working. Once a fire is blazing, it’s too late to go looking for it. Be prepared.

Heat issues

When dealing with temperatures that can reach 10,000 degrees, and complete skin coverage, especially with FR clothing, we are automatically talking about the possibility of heat stress. Understand the symptoms and treatment of heat related health issues and take the appropriate measures. Make sure that you take frequent breaks away from the heat and stay hydrated at all times.

You can read all three post at the following links…

http://www.safetycommunity.com/profiles/blogs/the-basics-of-welding-safety

http://www.safetycommunity.com/profiles/blogs/the-basics-of-welding-safety-1

http://www.safetycommunity.com/profiles/blogs/the-basics-of-welding-safety-2

PINK SCRUB VIDEO STORY

The Crosby Campus  Cruiser’s We recently were asked to create some pink scrubs for The Cuyuna Regional Medical Center annual Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure® team. We were excited to be able to participate in such a great cause.

We’d like to share a few pictures from the event as well as the story of how this all came to be. We will attach the video in a couple months when it is complete.

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TCBY Sugar House – Part 2

Wanted to share a few more pictures that we took last week while visiting the new TCBY in Sugar House area of Salt Lake City, Utah.

TCBY Sugarhouse Utah
Outside

 
 
 

TCBY Store Sugar House Utah
Inside
 
 
 

TCBY Soft Serve
Soft Server Machines
 
 
 

TCBY Toppings Bar
Self Service Toppings Bar
 
 
 

TCBY Fountain Drink Machine
New COKE Fountain Drink Machine with 106 Different Flavors to choose from.
 
 
 

And Finally 2 pictures of the TCBY logo artwork inside the store.
TCBY Logo

TCBY Logo

TCBY’s Sugarhouse Grand Opening

We are excited to announce that TCBY Is Opening a new store tomorrow in the Sugar House area of Salt Lake.

New TCBY Store, Sugarhouse, Salt Lake City, Utah

I was actually lucky enough to get a sneak peak at this new store today and I have to tell you it is like no other place around. With 10 different flavors of yogurt, and over, well I forgot to count, but a LOT of toppings. It’s a new self serve concept store where you get to make your own treat. Grab a bowl, mix your flavors add as many toppings as you want.

In addition they have an AMAZING drink machine that has 106 different flavors for you to choose from.

I highly recommend anyone in the Salt Lake area to visit this store this weekend. It’s conveniently located at 2274 South 1300 East right across from the Cinemark Sugarhouse Movies 10.

In case you didn’t know the Cinemark Sugarhouse Movies 10 features movies for only $1.50 (actually only 75 cents on Tuesdays) so come catch a movie and then top off a wonderful evening at TCBY.

And if that wasn’t enough to get you in the door, how about a GREAT coupon deal as the starting topping on your Yogurt.

TCBY Coupon, Sugarhouse, Salt Lake City, Utah

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You can also follow this new Sugarhouse store on Facebook and Twitter.