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...champ in total stores with 13,101, has added to the McWoes. Subs and other custom-made sandwiches are growing 12% a year as a fast-food category vs. a paltry 2% to 3% for burgers. Meanwhile, a range of upstart "fast casual" restaurants such as Panera Bread and Baja Fresh, which serve up a slightly more upscale dining experience, "have raised the bar for the fast-food industry," says Robert Sandelman, president of Sandelman & Associates, a market-research firm...
...Manger, with an option to buy the chain outright in 2005. The burger giant also owns a majority interest in Chipotle, which sells fast and fresh Mexican cuisine. And McDonald's bought Boston Market out of bankruptcy in 2000. Not to be outdone, Wendy's in June bought the Baja Fresh Mexican Grill, with 185 stores mostly in the West...
...champ in total stores with 13,101, has added to the McWoes. Subs and other custom-made sandwiches are growing 12% a year as a fast-food category vs. a paltry 2% to 3% for burgers. Meanwhile, a range of upstart "fast casual" restaurants such as Panera Bread and Baja Fresh, which serve up a slightly more upscale dining experience, "have raised the bar for the fast-food industry," says Robert Sandelman, president of Sandelman & Associates, a market-research firm...
...natural gas (the fuel for many power plants) in Canada and Mexico rather than financing new development domestically. U.S. firms spent more than $27 billion last year buying Canadian oil and gas companies, and the government of Mexico is considering 18 separate U.S. proposals to bring to the Baja peninsula liquefied-natural-gas terminals, which would receive shipments from all over the world and pipe gas to the U.S. European and U.S. energy firms have at least that in common: they know a good deal when they...
...business practices can be used to reform federal government. More important, he is culturally a norteno, given to blunt talk, a distrust of the Mexico City bureaucracy and open admiration for the U.S. His National Action Party, or P.A.N., reinvented itself in the northern states of Chihuahua and Baja California, reshaping itself in the 1980s from an ideological right-wing sect to one that championed free elections, civil society and honest government. Fox pushed that transformation so hard that he eventually alienated himself from much of the P.A.N. hierarchy. He governs essentially as an individual--perhaps the ultimate expression...