Word: chilies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...coming into a market once dominated bymom-and-pop isn't easy for a chain store, saysMatt Perry, the manager of Chili's Restaurant...
...Chili's is trying to compensate for being animpersonal franchise by creating "a neighborhoodbar atmosphere...
...biggest hits (Drunken Master, Project A, Police Story, The Armour of God) and their sequels, Chan has scooted across burning coals, eaten red-hot chili peppers, swallowed industrial alcohol. He has bounced down a hill inside a giant beach ball and leaped from a mountaintop onto a passing hot-air balloon. As weapons he has used bicycles, rickshas, chairs, plates, a hat rack, a ketchup dispenser, overhead fans and Chinese folding fans. Bad guys have depantsed him, strapped a ton of tnt to his body, doused and scalded him, set him afire, dumped him down a well, hanged him naked...
...Chilis restaurant opened in the Square in 1987, and Perry says business has increased every year. There are 19 Chili's restaurants in New England and two in the Boston area...
Some small business owners are especially glad that Chili's and other large chains have moved into the Square, because they say that consumers who shop at the large stores will usually stop by their quainter establishments...