Word: yoshinoya
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Cambridge’s other Japanese market, Yoshinoya in Central Square, closed in 2007. While other Asian groceries in the city still sell Japanese products, none carry Japanese food exclusively...
What is "beef bowl" without the beef? That sounds like a Zen riddle, but it's actually the nightmare playing out at Yoshinoya D&C Co., Japan's leading purveyor of gyudon, a fast-food staple of rice topped with thin slices of stewed beef that's tasty, filling and, at just $2.60 per serving, fantastically popular with students and salarymen...
...Fast-food giants such as McDonald's procure beef from all over, but Yoshinoya imports almost 100% of its meat from cheap U.S. producers. When Japan banned imports of American beef in late December because of mad-cow disease, Yoshinoya chief executive Shuji Abe called it "the worst of worst-case scenarios" and then announced the unthinkable: Yoshinoya's 980 Japanese outlets would run out of beef by mid-February. Gyudon aficionados rushed the counters, and sales jumped 10% from the previous month. Now the company concedes it might buy domestic or Australian beef, even though its prices would rise...
...venture-capital firm Interasia and other investors. Trett's mission: to modernize farming techniques for the 6,000 tons a year of lettuce that Chinaveg grows, washes, cuts and packages for sale to buyers in China, including KFC's operations there, to the Japanese fast-food giants Ajinomoto and Yoshinoya and to hundreds of supermarkets...
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