December 23, 2009

Applebee’s Raises Money For Toys For Tots

Advertiser-News: Doherty Enterprises Inc., a franchisee operating 61 Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill & Bar restaurants in northern and central New Jersey and on Long Island, recently raised $290,000 during its eleventh annual holiday campaign benefiting the U.S. Marine Corps Toys for Tots Foundation and surpassed the company’s cumulative total of two million dollars in charitable giving. […]

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Dunkin’ Donuts Gives $27K To Build Homes For Soldiers

Warwick Beacon: Dunkin’ Donuts franchisees in Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts donated $27,500 to Homes for Our Troops recently, to help build a new, specially adapted barrier free home for Army Staff Sergeant Michael Downing from Middleboro, Mass. The funds were generated during Dunkin’ Donuts’ Iced Coffee Day this spring, during which 5 cents for

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Little Caesars Pizza(R) Announces National Two-Day Promotional $3.99 Hot-N-Ready(R) Coupon Offer

SunHerald.com: Little Caesars Pizza today announced an incredible pizza promotion offered for the first time nationally on its large HOT-N-READY® pizza. In recognition of the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl, Little Caesars is offering a large HOT-N-READY® pizza for $3.99 plus tax with a coupon for two days only, Dec. 26 and 27, at participating locations

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Syracuse On Target For A ‘Fresh Mexican’ Food Showdown Between Qdoba, Chipotle

The Post-Standard – Syracuse.com: The other major player in the “fresh Mexican” fast food concept has a few words for Chipotle Mexican Grill: Qdoba Mexican Grill is coming to the Syracuse area, too. “That whole corridor, the Syracuse-Rochester-Buffalo market is a priority for us now,” said Todd Owen, Qdoba’s vice president of franchise development. “We

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What Will We Call The New Decade?

Blame “the media” if you want. But come January 1, we’ll dump the “two-thousands,” and we’ll get cozy with the “twenty-tens.” So say the language mavens, reports The Plain Dealer. In 2000, there were “uncertainties,” said David Crystal of the Cambridge Encyclopaedia of the English Language, so we ignored the example of 1900 (“nineteen-hundred”), and

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Nearsightedness Rising In U.S.

The proportion of Americans ages 12 to 54 who need corrective lenses for distance sight has risen in recent decades, increasing to almost 42 percent in 1999-2004, up from 25 percent in the early 1970s, The New York Times reports a national study has found. While the prevalence of nearsightedness has increased around the world,

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