European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 11, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 a a a the stars and stripes thursday october 11,1990economy makes baloney of Power lunch Boston apr in the Boom times executives i Mug a wave of fast Money did their Power lunches Over nors do oeuvres and chardonnay. But with the 1990s bust Many have now taken to a slice a grinder a Hoagie or what in Chicago they Call a Slider a a Burger so Greasy it slides right Down. High noon just Isnit what it used to be. And with recession fears growing and Middle East tensions driving up Oil prices the lunch business is getting As soggy As a leftover Chicken salad Sandwich. A a it a quite Clear that lunch is off in a variety of ways a said Malcolm Knapp president of Malcolm Knapp inc., a new York based marketing research firm. A people see colleagues getting Laid of you wonder if you re next so you Cut Back on the Cash things you can control a gasoline entertainment and eating a Gallup poll for the National restaurant association in Washington d.c., showed 22 percent of adults ate lunch out on any Given Day in july compared with 30 percent in june. The polls were of 1,000 people and had a margin of error of 3.5 Points. A that drop comes at a time of the year that a usually very Good for the Industry a said Anne Curtis an association spokeswoman. A a it a a significant change. This is not the usual the bust started with a crash. A up to the 1987 Stock Market crash there was a kind of conspicuous consumption game where people would boast about How much they spent on eating out a Knapp said. A now that kind of consumption is frowned expensive restaurants Are hardest hit. A people will Trade Down for lunch a said George Rice a spokesman for consumer reports on eating share trends which tracks restaurant Industry data. A a it a Chez Paul a to Bennigan a and Bennigan a to Denny a and then Denny a to Mcdonald a. That a been going on for a few years and it will and restaurants Are adapting to the changing tastes Curtis said. A a we re seeing lower prices More casual atmospheres a Curtis said. A waiters Arentt wearing tuxes the food is More the winners May be cheaper eateries a possibility not lost on restaurant chains. Louisville Kentucky Fried Chicken Long a mostly dinner time Chain has added Chicken sandwiches and spicy Chicken wings to its noon menu to draw customers. A at lunchtime people want convenience. That Means portable stackable items like sandwiches said Detwiler a pfc spokesman. A a Hamsun or chains have always been big at lunch. Now we want to expand into this Philip Coleman a construction company executive stood in front of a lunch truck in downtown Bostons eyeing an array of sandwiches wrapped in plastic. A a my wife usually makes my lunch a Coleman said a a there a a Good chunk of change saved in me bringing a Brown 8 Coleman who settled on a Steak tips Sandwich Coke and a bag of chips a total Price $3.70 a said the Economy had a definitely affected my eating habits. I knew this stand would Cost a few Bucks less than a restaurant and id get More to Dan Lyons owner of the lunch truck said business was at its worst in 19 years. A a lot of people Are Brown bagging a Lyons said a for if they used to get a Sandwich now they just get Coffee and a Randy Zeibert of the upscale Duke Zeibert a in Washington said business has held in what is a Lucky exception to the Rule. He said the lethargic Economy has even provided an occasional ironic boost. A i have real estate people who come in for lunch because there a nothing to do a he said. Stateside2 abortion clinic workers injured by acid thrower new York apr a Man hurled a can of acid at two employees of an abortion clinic seriously injuring one police said. The women had just left work and were walking Down the sidewalk in Midtown Manhattan on tuesday afternoon when a Man ran up threw a Coffee can of acid at them and ran away said a police spokeswoman sgt. Tina Mohrmann. The motive for the attack was unclear. A police spokesman sgt. Nick Vreeland said it a does not seem to be connected to their work at the police were trying to determine whether an estranged husband of one of the women was linked to the attack he said. Natalie Boston 29, of Brooklyn was hit in the face and eyes. She was listed in guarded condition wednesday morning at new York Hospital administrator Kathleen Mcgowan said. Digna Rodriguez 24, was hit in the hand and neck. She was hospitalized in stable condition Mcgowan Byrne wants to be Chicago mayor again Chicago apr former mayor Jane Byrne says she will attempt a comeback in 1991 and already is circulating nominating petitions. A we Are absolutely having no difficulty getting signatures a she said tuesday. Byrne was elected mayor in 1979 and lost a re election bid in the 1983 democratic primary to Harold Washington who went on to become the City a first Black mayor. She lost a comeback bid to Washington in the 1987 primary. Mayor Richard Daley elected in 1989 after Washington died in office is expected to seek a full four year term in 1991. A anybody can run for mayor a Daley said when asked about Byrness backing car fatally injures Mother Philadelphia up a a Philadelphia woman died late tuesday after her 14-year-old daughter accidentally backed the family car into her at a convenience store police said. Iris Rodriguez 33, died in the 11 . Accident outside a 7-eleven store in the Feltonville Section of the City police said. Officers said Rodriguez and her daughter whose name was not released went to the convenience store to get gasoline. Rodriguez was standing outside the car directing the teen Ager As she pulled up to the Gas pumps. Police said the girls foot slipped off the clutch and the Mercury Lynx jumped into reverse striking Rodriguez and pinning her against a Utility pole. Charges will not be filed in connection with the incident police said. Corps lists hostage As Dea year after video of Hangin Washington up a the Marine corps has declared it. Col. William Richard Higgins taken hostage in Lebanon to be dead and will hold a memorial service nov. 8 at Quantico va., officials said tuesday. Higgins 44, was kidnapped in Southern Lebanon in february 1987. He had been officially listed As missing but the Marine corps commandant Gen. Alfred m. Gray jr., changed Higgins status to dead in a july 6 hearing on the Case the Pentagon disclosed. The hearing came nearly a year after moslem kidnappers released a 37-second videotape showing what they said was a hooded Higgins hanging by his neck from a rope. A pro iranian shiite group calling itself the organization of the oppressed on Earth said they killed Higgins on july 31, 1989, when a deadline passed for Israel to release Sheik Abdul Karim Obeid a moslem cleric kidnapped by israeli commandos in Southern Lebanon two Days earlier. Fri analysts who studied the videotape last year said that it was not a fake and that the Man in the picture was dead. The Fri also said there was a a High probability the body was Higgins. The body was never returned despite an Appeal by the i hostages _ wife Marine maj. Robin Higgins who i formerly worked As a Pentagon spokeswoman. The Pentagon said i tuesday that memorial i services for Higgins Are Ujj scheduled for 11 . Ujj thursday nov. 8, at Quantico National Ceme Teiry. A Marine base is located in the Virginia town j near Washington. Higgins the head of a 75-member . Peace. # keeping Force in Lebanon was kidnapped while driving on the coastal Road South of the port City of Tyre 46 Miles South of Beirut on feb. 17,1987. Six americans remain hostage in Lebanon Terry Anderson Thomas Sutherland Joseph Cicippio Edward Tracy Alann Steen and Jesse Turner. A nor Higgins poor health forces retirement a tile Maestro Leonard Bernstein conducting the new York philharmonic in this 1988 photo is retiring from the concert stage because of poor health his office announced tuesday. Bernsteins physician or. Kevin m. Cahill said the conductor has progressive emphysema complicated by a pleural tumor and a series of pulmonary infections. Bernstein 72, the most prominent american orchestra director of his time is known to have been a heavy smoker. Cahill advised him that Public performances As a conductor or a pianist would probably be too strenuous for him
