Word: aromas
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What American export is hot in Japan these days? Cinnamon buns--big, gooey pastries with an aroma that could send you into insulin shock. In 1999, when Atlanta-based Cinnabon opened its first outlet there, 300 people lined up to buy its buns, says Gregg Kaplan, president of the chain. Rather than try to sell cinnamon buns in Japan on its own, the company partnered with Sugakico, a successful operator of a chain of ramen-noodle restaurants. Two years later, sales are five times as high at Japanese outlets as at those in the U.S. of comparable size and location...
...company was conceived as a wholesale business, but the cooking aroma led passersby to clamor for the doughnuts, a demand met by cutting a window through a wall to handle retail. An ugly conglomerate, Beatrice Foods, bought Krispy Kreme in 1976 only to spin it off to franchisees in a 1982 leveraged buyout. Today the family of Joseph McAleer Sr., who led the LBO, holds roughly 25% of the shares...
Radonsky is glad she came. It's like life on a farm, she says--"you breathe in the aroma...
...opportunity, realizing that you have not seen the inside of a Taco Bell in three months. As you excitedly leave the hot food area and pass the pasta, your eyes fall upon pesto sauce and you immediately think of Grandma Viola with her magnificent ravioli. Remembering the succulent aroma of her kitchen as you fill a hefty bowl with penne and pesto, it occurs to you that there is a reason Taco Bell and the Olive Garden have not merged. You are stuck with two entrees, but your stomach cannot even ponder pesto beef let alone the prospect of purchasing...
...back streets of Abuja pulse with the sound of traditional Africa juju music, as well as reggae, and the air is spiced with the aroma of curries and goat's-head pepper soups. Unlike most capitals, the city - with a population of 400,000 - has little in the way of fancy restaurants outside of its two big hotels with those exotic-sounding names: Hilton and Sheraton. Like most major capitals, it has a flourishing red-light district...