On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:25:03 -0500, 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.

But it took them all that time to go nation wide. Starbucks didn't
let any moss grow under their feet.


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