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...this rate, it is only a matter of time before Tommy's becomes a Pizza Hut and Cardullo's is replaced by a Star Market. A Wal-Mart might soon open in the courtyard of Dunster House. Even specialty stores are at risk; how long will it be before Hubba Hubba is driven out of business by an S&M mega-store...
Caterpillar bulldozers have completely destroyed the sacred old dirt Indian footpath that leads (and lead Thoreau) along one whole side of the pond to Thoreau's hut. The trail has been grossly despoiled into what looks like the making of a one-lane highway. I counted 13 trees cut down at the water's edge in one 20-foot section...
...order was phoned in four days in advance, and it sounded like one that any ambitious pizza deliverer would jump at: 40 large pies to Paseo Academy in Kansas City, Missouri, for a midday party for honor-roll students. To the school's surprise, Pizza Hut, the biggest pizza purveyor in town--and in the country--turned it down, saying the area was unsafe. A local chain, Westport Pizza, was more than happy to fill the order. Says honors dance major Glenndalynn Frazier, 17: "I knew we were supposed to have Pizza Hut, but it didn't stop us from...
...story didn't end there. Just days later, principal Dorothy Shepherd learned that Pizza Hut had won a $170,000 contract to deliver pizzas twice a week to 21 Kansas City high and junior high schools, including Paseo, a $34 million state-of-the-art magnet school that serves a 70% minority student body. "I was outraged," says Shepherd. "I respect their wanting to protect their drivers. But how could it be unsafe one day but safe enough for them when it came to that contract? We didn't move the school." Her reaction was echoed by the Kansas City...
...sole issue is the safety of our employees," responded Rob Doughty, a spokesman at Pizza Hut's Dallas headquarters, who accused school officials of "reacting to emotion." He says the company works out its "trade area restrictions" based on crime statistics. Nevertheless, he says, two Pizza Hut drivers have been killed on the job in the past six weeks--both in presumably safe areas. One murder occurred in Sacramento, California, the other in Salt Lake City, Utah. Regularly scheduled deliveries of the sort Pizza Hut bid on in Kansas City, Doughty claims, can be done safely with more than...