Avoid models fitted with overly complex menu-driven touchscreen displays and too-crowded dashboard controls to help minimize dangerous distractions.

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With intuitive, menu-driven features, the Aircell Smartphone allows passengers to place and receive voice calls aboard business aircraft as easily and conveniently as they do with mobile phones on the ground.

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We also appreciated that most functions remain governed by standard switches, buttons and dials instead of an annoyingly complex menu-driven multimedia system of the sort that tends to hamper most upscale cars these days.

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Same-store sales should benefit from continued menu upgrades, driven by its Smart Eating initiative.

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In the U.S., where comparable sales were up 4.4%, consumer traffic in restaurants was driven by menu items such as the McRib and McCafe items like the caramel mocha, as well as promotional games like the Monopoly sweepstakes.

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