Waffles and Trucks

What a whirl wind morning! It started with a partner appreciation breakfast in the parking lot. Our executive team of Nabil (Mr No Stick), Shawn (Baconator) and I ( uhhhh I can't name myself) served up Waffles, Bacon, Coffee, Juice Fruit and Red Licorice(???).

It wasn't our first rodeo cooking in the parking lot but with two waffle makers and our DJ music system we kept blowing the fuse circuits, but we prevailed. Best waffle tip is when you add the bacon AS you add the batter to the waffle iron. Bacon gets trapped inside! Yumm.

Same time as the breakfast we decided to park all our trucks in a row and snap a couple of photos - then our came our costumes. It was kind of crazy for a while but we took a couple of cool shots. It was a fantastic way to end a week and get ready for the busy back to school season.

Cheers
Calvin

Howdy Partner

Today we welcome two more partners to the Lykki family.
Durning our Monday company wide "Luddle" (Lykki Huddle) we have a tradition where new partners are introduced and given a hat to wear all day. The only way to get rid of the hat is to ask another partner "what's my name". If they can't answer correctly then the new partner gives them the hat. It becomes quite a game and I guarantee it helps break the ice for everyone.
Tony was caught off guard and graciously accepted the hat from Lea Anne.

Cheers
Calvin

There's no magic in this idea.

While driving thru Portland today I had to stop into Voodoo Doughnuts. It is a doughnut shop out of the ordinary. And that's a good thing.
I love businesses that take a regular or even boring industry and make it fun, memorable, unique and remarkable.
That's what Voodoo has done for doughnuts and as a result the lineup at 10am was out the door and down the block.
Nothing but ordinary is all I can say to describe the place as we finally ordered a maple glaze with full strips of bacon on top. Every doughnut was a work of art and topped or filled with some crazy concoction or mixture and the prices were $3-4 per doughnut. But damn our bacon maple was awesome.



Anyone can buy the ingredients and make a doughnut - or a cup of coffee or sell office supplies - so what makes some companies like Voodoo stand out? I think it's the passion to be unique, be different, be remarkable and wow their customers with something people didn't even know they wanted till it was presented to them. Again, we can buy a doughnut anywhere - but not a Voodoo Doughnut experience!

As Voodoo says... The magic is in the hole!
Cheers
Calvin

Make mine Pomegranate Mango!

Lykki tradition is alive and well as we celebrate another year of impromptu "no special reason other than it's sunny" ITALIAN SODA DAYS.
Italian sodas are the delectable yummy and oh so refreshing beverage of the gods on a hot day. Made with sparkling spring water and gourmet syrups over ice and topped with whip cream. Our Partners love the surprise on a hot day and the whole office just goes into party mode as we mix, slurp, chug and cool down in the company of our coworkers.

This year we took Lykki on the road and surprised several lucky customers with an Italian Soda Party. It was my idea so I can along to help.
The customers we hit were blown away as we stormed in and set up a party beverage station in their kitchen and started mixing up hundreds of hand made custom Italian sodas for all their staff. We even made trays of drinks and snuck into offices, meetings and boardrooms with our delicious treats. Customer and their staff were so excited and really had fun with the party. Even some stuffy executives who came to see what the commotion was all about seemed to get in on the festivities. An hour later we were cleaned up and off to the next customer. Everyone went back to work with a smile on their face!

Seeing the smiles, hearing the laughs and feeling the Lykki Love is what is is all about. Best week this year for me!
Cheers
Calvin

More Tees Please

 

Our Lykki tee shirts have been so popular we needed to run another batch.
In addition to our Keep Calm and Lykki On shirt, we designed two more.
Happiness Junky and Work Happy are the two new additions to the family with 9 more in works to be released over the next year.
If you would like a shirt, keep a close watch on our Facebook page for opportunities to snag one.

One shirt we are adding came from a saying I recently heard a mom say to her whining tween age daughter. She said "Pew Pew Pew, that's the sound of your whining bouncing off my Happiness Shield"

Cheers
Calvin

Timmy Ho goes Eco

Look what was installed at the Tim Hortons near the Lykki Headquarters. Charging stations for electric cars.
Good for Timmies and the City of Coquitlam for being quite progressive. I love this picture - can you see the old 60's car parked in the charging station? Imagine the buyer of that car back in the 60's being told one day the car would be evolved by the electric car. Will the next specialized parking spot be for a flying car??



I was wondering what kind of electric cars were available to buy, so for this blog post I stopped into a Tesla electric car dealership. It's actually one single car in a store inside the mall. The car was incredibly impressive with acceleration faster than a Porsche 911 and an immense amount of room for 7 passengers and luggage due to the fact there is no extras like a motor transmission or exhaust to take up space.
Although the cost of this model S was close to $100k, I'm sure costs will come down.

Personally I'd prefer free WiFi everywhere before charging stations.

Cheers
Calvin

Eco Afternoons

 
 
 
 


This summer Lykki is again booked into several Eco Fairs.

What is an Eco Fair you may ask?
It's an event held usually in the lobby or breeze way of an office tower downtown. Several non competing businesses set up booths and present their services and products. The catch is they all need to be very environmentally committed in what they offer.

Lykki is representing the Office Supplies Category while other companies like Zip Car and HSR Happy Stan's Recycling did their part also.
This year we had a very popular booth by creating a game show type environment with our "PAPER CHALLENGE". How it works is we have three stacks of copy paper for contestants to look touch and feel( some even sniff and chew the paper!!). To win a prize the contestant needs to correctly identify what stack is Virgin Paper, 100% Recycled Paper and Sugar Cane Paper.
It was amazing to see how hard it is for the general public to differentiate the types of paper whith over 80% of people not able to get all 3 correct in the first try.

Only a few years ago recycled or alternate source paper looked quite different from the bright white virgin sheets we were accustomed to using in our offices everyday. Well, all that has changed when you look at the three papers we had in our Paper Challenge. They were indistinguishable between each other, even when you tried to tast e them looking for the sugar cane sheet - and people tried :-))

Keep an eye on our Lykki Facebook page for our next Eco Fair and come try the Paper Challenge for yourself.

Cheers
Calvin