gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote:
> On 2006-12-16 05:54:09 -0800, "Dave Fossett" <reply@via.newsgroup> said:

> > Lotte is also behind the arrival of Krispy Kreme doughnuts in Tokyo.

> If they arrived already, have they begun closing down. I'll give them a 
> year.  I think those things are stunningly horrible.  Particularly as 
> some Japanese chains some fabulous pastries.

Echos what the Japanese bureaucracy was saying about McDonald's before
they opened there, and Starbucks.

Mike