A visit to the store can feel like a trip to Japan — aisles offering dried seafood and every variety of soy sauce, while a Ramen soup restaurant, snack bars and even a travel agency are housed in the store.
A case could be made that White Castle founded in 1921 introduced the original restaurant snack with its signature Slider.
Service/products include 40 computerized bowling lanes, full-service family restaurant, snack bar, billiard and dart parlor, video game room, apparel shop, pro-shop and children's nursery.
Jacobson closed with another dig at the food industry: "Of course while the government publishes this earnest and well-intentioned advice, the soft-drink, restaurant, snack-food, meat, and cheese industries will continue to spend billions of dollars promoting foods and beverages that directly contradict that advice," he said.
The trend is toward such efficient operations as fast-food restaurants, snack bars, and coffee shops.
Starwood is putting up about one-third of the purchase price and will help manage the restaurants, snack bars and pro shops at these courses, Mr. Cornell said.
A former highway has been transformed into a pedestrian promenade that is accessible by wheelchair and stroller, as are the new or renovated restaurants, snack bars and Provencal boutiques.
After the Cuban government began allowing people to open businesses in late 2010, nearly a quarter of a million of them have opted to work for themselves over the past 20 months, opening restaurants, snack bars and makeshift shops, driving taxis and fixing cellphones.
There are also several restaurants, snack bars and bars, a night club, a soccer field, a nature reserve, a shopping village, conference rooms, a putting green, a croquet lawn, nursery, children's playground, commissary, basketball and volleyball courts, and a fitness center, even a small hospital with a dialysis unit.
After the Cuban government began allowing people to open businesses in late 2010, nearly a quarter of a million of them have opted to work for themselves over the past 20 months, opening restaurants, snack bars and makeshift shops, driving taxis and fixing cellphones.
Concessions -- including the restaurant, bar, snack bar and newsstand -- are often empty.
