Word: foodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stands and no partner (he bought him out for $5,000). To make up for the drop in root-beer sales in winter, he installed a steam table and griddle, began selling tamales and enchiladas, changed his stores' name to Hot Shoppes. The chain kept expanding because the food was good, and swiftly served in scrupulously clean surroundings. Now Hot Shoppes, Inc. have 66 restaurants in eleven states and the District of Columbia, last year fed over 40 million customers, grossed upwards of $29 million. Last week, with his motel already booking reservations into May and June, Marriott...
After all, the University and its cuisiniers must be congratulated. The cooks have constantly been the objects of much malignant comment from the Student Council and other people who think about things like food, but now the cooks emerge as truly heroic figures. Think how well they've done, with only Utility to work with...
...projected sales tax would impose a levy of three per cent on all items except food, medicines, children's clothing, rents, light, heat, gas, telephone, and other utilities...
Scoreboard ¶Australia's Murray Rose, the 17-year-old, flipper-footed food faddist who trains on seaweed jelly and experiments with hypnotism, churned 440 yds. at the New-South Wales swimming championships in a world record 4:27.1, passed the 400-meter mark on the way in a world record 4:25.9. When he caught his breath. Rose announced that he would visit the U.S. in the spring "to look around some universities," but admitted that Yale's ubiquitous swimming coach, Bob Kiphuth, had already all but sold him on the beauties of New Haven...
...Discounter Gattegno,who grossed about $1,500,000 last year, plans to open a new American-style supermarket this spring with three floors of food, appliances and clothing, smack in the heart of the poor people's Paris near Gare St.-Lazare. Its name: Chez Monsieur 20%. Says he: "I will make new enemies among French retailers. But what interests me are the customers. They are my friends...