we had a cinnabon lip balm. but a very small market, decided the prize wasn't worth the effort to keep it going. wasn't a big enough connection to the consumer to really warrant the continued effort. >> but you're not afraid of taking chances. >> we celebrate failure. >> what does ma mean? >> we have a culture of exper menation, so, we challenge each other and our partners to bring us whacky ideas. we even launch a pizza b orkbone a pizza roll with no cinnamon and frosting. sounds odd, not totally in line with the brand. it was not successful in the bakery, so we learned a lot from it and that was more valuable than the product's success. >> i would say so, the failures probably teach you more. >> no question. >> we love stories here about unusual past success and you have one of those. very famously started out at the hooters girl. you were in college going for an engineering degree. >> yes. >> so, you were working as a hooters girl and you quit college. why? >> i had start traveling all over the world to help

we had a cinnabon lip balm. but a very small market, decided the prize wasn't worth the effort to keep it going. wasn't a big enough connection to the consumer to really warrant the continued effort. >> but you're not afraid of taking chances. >> we celebrate failure. >> what does ma mean? >> we have a culture of exper menation, so, we challenge each other and our partners to bring us whacky ideas. we even ing friday. if you're looking for deals, you can find them. coupons, discounts, it's a great time to shop for deals. >> i guess the stores think if they get you, this is the time you're out. they want to keep you there and r as many things as you want. >> if pencils and pens and notebooks, you're buying backpacks and ipads and jeans and shirts. >> when it comes down to parents being able to buy all this and afford this, if there's a 29% increase, how is that going to impact those families? >> i think that's the hardest part of this. especially in that e e less well off. if it's passinging on to parents and the

cat cole is president of cinnabon. thank you for being here. >> my pleasure. >> i licked half the frosting off of that one. >> as you should. >> it's great. i see what you're doing with these brands. how many brands do you have outside of what we would normally think about with the blue box? >> we have the normal blue box and additional 70 consumer packaged goods sold in about 60,000 points of retail distributions and that's about wig partners like pills bury, kelloggs and many more. >> highway do you come up with these ideas? >> the ideas come from many different directions. one would be our development partners, so we rely a lot on our partners to bring us ideas on innovation. pil pillsbury is much bigger than cinnabon so we rely on their expert but we are part of indulgence so we have become excellent at being and looking at market insight analytics and valuable expertise. >> i imagine you have to have some flops when are trying different things. >> yes. >> what's something you threw out before you even tried it and

cinnabon -- does everyone like -- you know cinnabon? you love cinnabon?se ] everyone loves cinnabon. they're testing a concept store that will sell smaller cinnamon rolls. they say it's perfect for people who love kidding themselves. [ laughter ] i'm just going to grab eight of these little ones. i don't wanna -- too, too much for the big one. let's take eight of these. thank you very much. i'm going to smoosh them into a a ball. [ laughter ] >> steve: ♪ let it go >> jimmy: i thought this was cool. the website buzzfeed announced that it's launching its own hollywood movie studio. yeah, in fact, they're starting up by remaking a lot of classic movies with more buzzfeed-like titles. take a look. first there's "18 shark attacks that will have you asking for a a bigger boat." [ laughter ] next we have, "this alien eating reese's pieces is the cutest thing you'll see all day." [ laughter ] then there's "quiz -- which mohican are you?" [ laughter ] and finally, we have "the most epic shower fail of all-time." [ laughter and applause ] i would watch -- i would w

if we were to say, we found a recipe for a fat-free cinnabon cinnamon roll.0 people a day would probably come to the counter to see it will stop when they looked at it, compared to the real thing they would say, i think if i'm going to treat myself, i'm going to do it was something really worth it will sto. if you're going with lower calorie and other market positioning to attract l the consumer, you typically have to offset your traditional ingredients with artificial ingredients. artificial sweeteners. you fix one problem that create another. i don't know if that is the case with the statusfrie -- satisfries. when i go there, i'm going to treat myself, not for a salad or fruit parfait. >> you can say that about a cinnamon bun, but people go to burger king or mcdonald's for food. it is almost in unwinnable battle for them. >> it is tough. in any business if you want to win with your brand, you have to be honest. you have to pick a path. it is impossible to please everyone. the high and indulgent or high-quality and healthy or very fast food.-value so when yo

. >>> next week we take on the sweet smell of success with cinnabonment, kat cole.have a greet week and i'll see you next weekend! >>> nbc bay area news starts now. >>> good evening, everyone. >>> i'm peg gy bunker, san francisco police have not released the names of the person responsible in a deadly stabbing, happening in almaden valley. authorities say the family just moved into the house this year. this is san jose's 20th homicide of the year, by this time last year there were 30 homicides. >>> and police expecting to clear out a camp, the

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betty liu asked the president of cinnabon how the ruling could affect her ranch eyes business.hise business. >> if they are being essentially called the de facto employees, why would a franchise continue to franchise? if they have to go to the liability and the expense and the more detailed hands-on management of ensuring the employees are under their purview, why bring a business owner into the mix? >> they are both owned by the capital group. this -- do you agree with this? >> it is absolutely right. it is absurd to think a franchise model that has around for years, that has been so successful and provides an opportunity for young and wouldtic entrepreneurs shut that down because there are no franchisers that would take the responsibility for a labor perspective. we are for use with -- fears on protecting our standards. but we've even up to the entrepreneur to run the people -- we believeness that up to the entrepreneur to run the people part of the business. right now we are growing less, we have 550 stores in east of the mississippi. we are growing west. we are looking for

nothing on there about visiting cinnabon... >> that seems like a lot of work. >> what about little refreshments that they bring you, those little bottles. here's the current temperatures. wind at 6 mi.. yesterday we reached only 70 degrees. typical high is 82. the good news is today we to warm up a bit. it is officially jacket weather. as a lakefront 59. 61 the and midway. sunless composite shows we are dry. this afternoon is a different story. a weak disturbance system will drop through. it will bring potential for a shower to pop up. i think the biggest thing is the temperature drop today's high in the upper 70's and low 80s. it'll be more like fall on thursday. we have afternoon showers possible. he probably will and not major umbrella. just light rain tomorrow. cool and quiet night. 77 on thursday friday we have a 20 percent chance of rain. that's later in the day. friday's high temperature climbs up to 82. >> good morning. talking about another baby born on the roadways. the word is a vehicle is traveling trying to get to the hospital on the eisenhower. they pulled off the ike just south o

. >> i look at a large starbucks, three cups of coffee -- >> what about cinnabon?now that is happening in real-time and can combine that with historical information and they can give you something to make you happy even before you have a chance to become unhappy. >> does that mean they will try to sell me something, or will they give me an article that i might find interesting and want to read? >> it could be information, it could be the perishable inventory. if you sit at one of my games and you tweet that you had cold pizza, i picked that up. the headstockste -- conduct of the parking, we give that to you and you are happy before you become unhappy. >> talking about hewlett-packard and ibm and getting this discussion started about the future of tibco, why is big tech so cheap? >> the non-social media type company. >> why is it so inexpensively priced? >> i think that is not something that should be the case. i think there is a lot of friends the right now are rampant -- a lot of frenzy right now about companies that lose largest sums of money. they have good cash