Word: benihana
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...English. Starting as dishwashers, busboys and street food vendors, newcomers gradually manage to save enough money to open simple restaurants. Featuring dishes that are novel and generally inexpensive, immigrants get a foothold that can lead to the sort of success enjoyed by Rocky Aoki, the Japanese tycoon behind the Benihana restaurant chain and frozen-food company...
Given the ingenuity America seems to inspire in its immigrants, the newcomers may give Aoki stiff competition. How long can it be before Benihana is joined by chains with names such as Tacorama, the Piteria, Dim-summery and even Tofusion...
...away from Japan on Tuesday, came down nearly four days later in a rainstorm near the little mountain town of Covelo, Calif. The four adventurers in the gondola-Ben Abruzzo, 51, Larry Newman, 34, Ron Clark, 41 (all of Albuquerque), and Rocky Aoki, 43, Japanese-born owner of the Benihana restaurant chain-drank champagne toasts to the first balloon to make it across the Pacific Ocean and then settled down to wait overnight for rescue...