Word: pizzas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Given the current bagel-building boom, few Americans will be able to avoid them. With remarkable velocity, the bagel is joining America's basic fast-food group--pizza, hamburgers, chicken and tacos--as competitors race one another across the country to create bagel-shop chains before this latest hole in the market is filled. Bagel sales have reached about $3 billion and are growing more than 20% annually, according to Lehman Brothers. Sales in bagel shops and bakeries increased roughly 50% last year, according to Bakery Production and Marketing, a trade magazine...
...Bagel, Noah's New York Bagels, Big Apple Bagels (Do you detect a theme here?) and the Great American Bagel are rolling into communities that wouldn't know the real thing from a catcher's mitt. Says Jack Grumet, ceo of the Manhattan Bagel Co.: "What happened to the pizza in the '40s and '50s is happening to the bagel today. Soon there will be bagel shops on every street corner...
...folks at Taco Bell, a division of Pepsi, decided not to sponsor any more. On The Taco Bell Dana Carvey Show, dancing tacos hailed Carvey as "our whore," and Princess Di was called a slut (twice). Hardly shocking for Carvey's regular audience, but this was prime time. Pizza Hut, another unit of Pepsi in line for top billing, also got cold feet. But the show drew big ratings, and ABC said it would be reined in a tad. So other Pepsi kin are staying put and, happily, there will be a Mug Root Beer Dana Carvey Show...
...Stoughton team burst into cheers upon hearing that their win earned them breakfast in bed and a pizza party for 20 of their friends, courtesy of Harvard Dining Services...
With some students still unaware of the availability of cable, Turner said she plans to host a pizza party in the JCR after spring break to celebrate the room's new acquisition...