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The Baked Bouquet Opens Location In Edison - TAPinto.net

Edison, NJ - The Baked Bouquet has opened a location in Menlo Park Mall. Branding itself as the “World’s Leading Cupcake Bouquet Company,” the location is the bakery’s “Second Flakery.” Baked Bouquet offers cupcakes and other baked items that look like a bouquet of flowers. The baked goods resemble roses, hydrangeas, petunias or sunflowers. The company offer the designs as everyday gifts and for events. Baked Bouquet calls its stores “Flakeries” because they are offered as a custom bouquet similar to a florist but made out of cake, similar to a bakery. Customers receive a sample of the triple whipped buttercream. According to Baked Bouquet, it gave out nearly 1000 samples at their Grand Opening Event. https://www.tapinto.net/towns/edison/articles/the-baked-bouquet-opens-location-in-edison

DoorDash Partners With b8ta For On-Demand Tech Gadget Delivery

Thync, a wearable for achieving mindfulness and boosting energy. Through the partnership with DoorDash, customers in Palo Alto and certain parts of Menlo Park will be able to order b8ta products for on-demand delivery starting today through December 31.“b8ta is all about user experience—and what could help improve the holiday shopping experience for b8ta visitors? Not having to carry, load, and unload heavy shopping bags from store to home,” b8ta CEO Vibhu Norby said in a statement. “We thought it would add to the experience of shopping at b8ta if local visitors could get their technology gifts delivered after trying them in-person.” While this is the first time DoorDash has partnered with a retailer to deliver consumer tech products, it’s not the first time DoorDash has branched out of traditional restaurant food delivery. Back in September, DoorDash partnered with 7-Eleven to deliver items from the convenience store to customers. “While our focus is still on restaurant delivery, we regularly test partnerships with retailers and other local merchants outside of the food space, both on a national level and on a market by market basis,” a DoorDash spokesperson told TechCrunch via email. “For example we announced a national partnership with 7-Eleven earlier this year to deliver convenience items, and local markets have experimented with delivery of costumes for Halloween, flowers for Valentines Day, etc.” So, for now, DoorDash’s “focus” is on restaurant delivery, but its partnership with b8ta is cle... http://techcrunch.com/2015/12/17/doordash-partners-with-b8ta-for-on-demand-tech-gadget-delivery/

Stanford construction threatens families' beloved Escondido Village

And the expanded complex -- 1.6 to 1.8 million square feet in size -- will help the local communities of Palo Alto, Menlo Park and adjacent towns by opening up more rental housing for others, according to the university. Moreover, the new construction will offer far more amenities than Escondido Village -- such as a market and cafe, pub, cinema, exercise facility, music rooms and study spaces, Shirley J. Everett, associate vice provost for residential and dining enterprises, said at a recent campus "town hall" meeting. The new buildings will be modeled after the school's four-story Kennedy Graduate Residences, which offer fully furnished units with wall-to-wall carpeting, contemporary kitchens and high-quality services, according to the university. The construction also creates space for new pedestrian and bicycle pathways to better connect graduate housing to the rest of the campus, as well as opportunities for popular food trucks. "The housing project is meant to be something really great," Everett said. "It will be a huge improvement over the current housing. "Escondido Village was developed in a rural time in Stanford's history," she added. "This is the last region of the campus housing where there is not so much density, and there is the opportunity to do more ... so we can house more students." The families urge the university to instead build the high-rise apartments in an adjacent area, to protect the courtyards. "You couldn't find a better place to have kids than Stanford," said electrical engineering doctoral student Brady Quist. "When people ask me what Stanford is like, I don't talk about the education," he said. "I talk about the courtyards." Contact Lisa M. Krieger at 650-492-4098. Follow her at Twitter.com/LisaMKrieger and Facebook.com/Lisa M. Krieger. p... http://www.mercurynews.com/nfl/ci_29241024/stanford-construction-threatens-families-beloved-escondido-village