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...supposed to give the kitchen flexibility to add new menu items, has made some McDonald's slower--adding precious seconds, if not minutes, to a customer's wait at the counter or the all-important drive through, which accounts for about half the chain's sales. A small but vocal number of franchisees--who invested thousands of their own dollars in the kitchen changes--are seething. And customers are also losing patience. "Since they took away the heat lamps, it takes forever--and the food still isn't hot," an Atlanta lawyer groused at a McDonald's on Peachtree Street...
...DIED. PAUL "HUCKLE-BUCK" WILLIAMS, 87, jazz saxophonist and bandleader whose 1949 hit The Huckle-Buck was the biggest-selling record in the Savoy label's 60-year history; in New York City. The tune topped the R. and B. charts for 14 weeks and spawned many vocal versions, most notably by Frank Sinatra...
...been vocal, for example, on the issue of improving advising for undergraduates, often castigating some of the larger departments for their poor ratings from students...
...like an aural sedative after a string of abrasive breakcore vitriol. When /rupture blends a slowed-down instrumental of Aaliyah’s “Are You That Somebody?” into that song, it’s a small revelation as Flack’s vocal exorcisms and Timbaland’s sonic architecture together evoke a soul that is neither old nor new, but lies in the space between records...
...supposed to give the kitchen flexibility to add new menu items, has made some McDonald's slower - adding precious seconds, if not minutes, to a customer's wait at the counter or the all-important drive through, which accounts for about half the chain's sales. A small but vocal number of franchisees - who invested thousands of their own dollars in the kitchen changes - are seething. And customers are also losing patience. "Since they took away the heat lamps, it takes forever - and the food still isn't hot," an Atlanta lawyer groused at a McDonald's on Peachtree Street...