Word: supermarketeers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Nationwide, 42% of Americans admit they ordered dessert more than once a ! month last year, according to Restaurants & Institutions magazine, up from 17% the year before. But the boom is not confined to eating out. Supermarket bakery sales were up 21% in 1986 and '87. And bakeries are bursting with business. "Desserts in restaurants are only half the loaf," affirms Elliott Medrich, co-owner of Cocolat, a San Francisco Bay-area chocolate shop renowned for its truffles. "The real dessert action is in the high end of take-away- food places or for people cooking at home...
WISCONSIN. Democrat William Proxmire used to pay the $145 filing fee, and that constituted his total campaign expenditure. This year it cost supermarket magnate Herbert Kohl $3 million of his own money just to succeed the retiring Proxmire as the Democratic nominee. Kohl, owner of the Milwaukee Bucks . basketball team, makes a virtue of his wealth: "a Senator just for you." He will face the only woman nominated for a Senate seat this year, Susan Engeleiter, a moderate who is Republican leader of the state senate...
...open window of the apparently nameless restaurant next to the Thai food kitchen, I could see two boys sitting in the kitchen, shelling the peas that I would eat, and scrambling eggs in the hugest wok I had ever seen. Minutes after I placed my order, a supermarket blue-and-white ceramic plate full of "fried rice with pork and shrimps" was placed in front...
...some the light holds hope for the King's return. Once the province of supermarket tabloids, reports of Elvis' resurrection now nestle in bookstores. Following on the heels of Moody's book, Gail Brewer-Giorgio's best-selling Is Elvis Alive? (Tudor; 1988) offers evidence to stoke the stories. Fact: on the singer's grave his middle name, Aron, is misspelled as Aaron. Possible conclusion: Elvis Aron Presley is not buried there. The book comes with a tape of a man who sounds like Elvis and offers Delphic hints of his postmortem life and times. If Brewer-Giorgio fails...
Joseph P. Devine, assistant manager of Broadway Supermarket, which employs about 50 workers, says the labor shortage has grown progressively more acute over the last three or four years, as the state unemployment rate dropped to its current 3 percent rate in the years after the economic recession of the early 1980s. Broadway has had to raise its starting salaries by as much as $2 an hour for some positions in recent months, he says...