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...Lemon was built in 1963 to hold 40,000 acre-ft. of water for irrigation in the area. It is down to 9% of capacity, all irrigation has been suspended, and the reservoir serves as an amusement for locals who drive pickups outonto the dry bed and make doughnut shapes with their tires...
Krispy Kreme's international expansion is the latest step in its metamorphosis from a sleepy Southern retailer into a modern fast-food chain selling nearly 2 billion doughnuts a year. It was 65 years ago this month that Vernon Rudolph opened the first Krispy Kreme in Winston-Salem. As the company grew into a regional institution, Rudolph ensured consistency by providing the mix to each franchise and creating specially designed machines to automate the doughnut-making process. Beatrice Foods bought the company in 1976, three years after Rudolph's death, and the franchisees took control in 1982. Expansion beyond...
...overseas expansion isn't likely to be a cakewalk. Krispy Kreme must avoid the mentality of "We like it in America, so you ought to like it too," says John Stanton, a food-industry expert at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia. "If it tries to force the American doughnut down the throats of Europeans, it will fail." Stanton argues that Krispy Kreme should market its treats not merely as a fast food, but also as "getting a little bit of Americana." And while the local press in the U.S. eat up Krispy Kreme store-opening stories, European media...
Padilla went on to rack up a grim but not exceptional rap sheet of adult crimes--ranging from assault to unlawful carrying of weapons to the attempted theft of a doughnut. Almost every incident includes a charge of resisting arrest or fleeing the scene. He swiped at cops with knives, fists and feet, according to court documents. In between bookings, he worked as a dishwasher or in the laundry of Chicago hotels and restaurants. In October 1991, after he and his family had moved to South Florida, he was arrested for firing his .38-cal. revolver at another driver during...
...drew the connection that maybe these guys were dirty but successful." Ryan, a veteran of CBS buddy-cop show Nash Bridges, hired another network-cop-series refugee as his lead: Michael Chiklis, who in ABC's The Commish was a cop as plump and sweet as a powdered doughnut. For The Shield, he shaved his head, hit the gym and gave TV's performance of the year as a Mr. Dirty Cop with a Mr. Clean physique, a Tony Soprano with a badge, the stresses and contradictions of his life betrayed by his tensed jaw and cornered-animal eyes...