The Cook wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 13:35:57 -0700, sf wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:42:08 -0400, "kilikini"
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> I've never had one, either, Ophelia, and I'm not planning to. I
>>> have heard many are closing down, though. I think they cropped up
>>> too quickly. Kind of like Starbucks.
>>
>> To tell you the truth, it seemed faster than Starbucks... at least to
>> me.
>
> Since they had not gotten to CA until the 1990's doesn't mean that
> they only had one store from 1937 until they hit your radar. They had
> stores and plants in the southeast before they started expanding
> nation wide.

Maybe because you had the stores around you didn't notice that
in the 90s they suddenly expanded like crazy. Those are the
stores that are disappearing so quickly. That's the quick 'cropping
up' that kili was talking about.

nancy