If you’re ever at Chadstone Shopping Center, check out Dashing Donuts. The lemon meringue donut deserves close attention. But there are plenty of other distractions. They’re a one off, not a chain (presently). Which is just as well, really.

“They thought their business model could just roll out.” I’ve watched forty years or so of church ministries franchise themselves as the future of the church without having the humility or awareness to realise that they were a lot more dependent on local circumstances and personalities than they thought. “The company said that it would …

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