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Unfortunately there were not any vendors giving away free meals, or else there would have been more people like Sid Shenai '04, who said he "ate enough chicken masala to feed the entire freshman class...
...spicy soup) pizza, and Heinecke, who became a Thai citizen in 1991, now has 116 stores taking about 95% of the country's $50 million-a-year pizza market. But after a 20-year relationship, Heinecke and U.S.-based Tricon Global Restaurants, owner of the Pizza Hut, Kentucky Fried Chicken and Taco Bell franchises, are headed for a divorce. And it's not amicable...
...competition, among other charges. The trial is scheduled to begin Oct. 10. Among the issues is a new global noncompetition clause in Tricon's international franchise agreement, which stipulates that franchisees need Tricon's permission to operate any other food business, even ones that don't compete with pizza, chicken or Mexican cuisine, anywhere in the world. Heinecke's previous contracts with the firm barred him only from opening rival pizza outlets. "How can the U.S., which advocates free trade and competition, support that kind of restrictive practice?" Heinecke asks. Says Peter Hearl, executive vice president of Tricon Restaurants International...
...fight with Tricon get so bad? Tricon's Hearl says his company tried to compromise. "We had grandfathered a number of his concepts into the contract, but he's got more concepts than Tricon," he says. What Tricon objects to is Heinecke's new franchise venture in Thailand, Chicken Treat. "As part of the Tricon family, Heinecke has access to information about KFC, and that presents some issues for us," Hearl says. "We welcome competition but not unfair competition." KFC controls more than 65% of the $110 million fast-food chicken market in Thailand. Heinecke counters that Tricon's franchisees...
...haven't seen Bring It On yet, you're not hip... Speaking of the uncool, I like the theory behind the new Lowell Dining Hall, but in practice, it's been a bit of a nightmare. The Disney-World sized lines don't make the General Wong's Chicken any more attractive... Speaking of attractive, I made it to the screen test for "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" this past Sunday with a whole bunch of other Harvard students. They evaluate you solely on the basis of personality and looks (interesting criteria for a trivia show!) but I tried...