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...Department. The major Gulf Coast pipelines were up and running by the end of last week, albeit at reduced capacity. The Louisiana Offshore Oil Port, the nation's only deep-water tanker port, unloaded its first cargo since Aug. 27. Still, some analysts predict that disruptions in the supply chain mean motorists will be in for several more months of $3 gas or worse. "The only thing we can hope for is an amazing amount of conservation," says Houston oil analyst Matt Simmons...
...Among the new arrivals, only the restaurant Canteen might appeal to both the bohemian crowd and financial folk. "Is this a chain?" asked my Friday lunch companion. Not yet, but it's easy to imagine blond wood and tweedy green-upholstered clones being assembled out of flat packs across the land. Canteen offers freshly executed traditional British fare - macaroni and cheese, meat pies and all-day breakfasts - served with a mission statement that boasts of the kitchen's organic and local sourcing...
...interviews with many of the faithful of Opus Dei, who did not hide their membership but on the contrary made an effort to answer all questions, including some of a very personal nature. The photos of the discipline [a small whip] and the cilice [a chain] presented them in such a way that readers might not know whether they were looking at instruments of torture or a means of Christian penance that could fit in the palm of one's hand. Their use is healthier and less painful than having an ear pierced or getting a tattoo. Those means...
...Vietnamese restaurant Pho Pasteur in the Garage, the menus remain, the management is the same, but the name is changed. Owner Duyen V. Le, 55, decided to rename his restaurant a few weeks ago to Le’s because he wanted to personalize his four-location chain. Le bought up what he says was an unsuccessful Pho Pasteur on Neelan Street in Boston 14 years ago from another Vietnamese immigrant. He said his menu and management skills helped him reinvigorate the restaurant, and he opened four more locations throughout the city and in Cambridge. But Le was irked...
Luria's innovation is to think of Dine Originals as one big chain--taken together, the 700 restaurants pull in about $1.4 billion in annual sales and represent $450 million in purchasing power--so its members get the clout and volume prices previously reserved for the big boys. Last month Luria signed a contract with Avendra, the top U.S. group-purchasing company in the restaurant-and-hotel sector, to get members lower prices on food and supply contracts as well as consulting advice on how to run their businesses more efficiently. The help may not reverse the chain-restaurant juggernaut...