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...lean fare flops, fast-food chains are beefing up menus...
Nothing wrong at all, agree the giants of the fast-food business, who are paying renewed attention to faithful customers like Minturn. After years of putting "lean" and "light" items on menus in a largely futile effort to attract dieters and the health conscious, the industry is focused again on its original mission of delivering loads of yummy, juicy calories as quickly and cheaply as possible. Challenged by competition from new steakhouses, ethnic eateries and drive-through restaurants, the fast-food chains are offering -- and customers are buying -- more generous portions of traditional favorites: bigger burgers, heftier pizzas, and fries...
...PROSPECT: CABLE SYSTEMS could switch to an a la carte system of billing, in which subscribers build customized cable menus channel by channel, rather than paying a lump sum for an entire "tier." Such a system would probably be ; a boon for narrow-gauge networks (golf enthusiasts would presumably be willing to fork over a buck or two a month for a channel aimed at them). But many general-interest services, from the Weather Channel to USA Network, would surely see their circulation -- and thus their ad revenue -- drop if viewers were forced to choose and pay for them individually...
Students and faculty will soon be able to use computers to access information ranging from daily dining menus to school sports schedules...
Demographics is another factor. In Paris rising rents are driving the working class to the suburbs -- and long commutes discourage after-work aperitifs. As a result, many cafes have beefed up their menus and make up the lost zinc trade from office workers who no longer go home for lunch. In the country, mechanized farming has shrunk village populations, leading to the closing of the cafes that served them. Still, most towns have a place where tradition survives. In Houlgate, a small town on the Normandy coast, six men and a woman chatted around the Formica counter on a recent...