"Twenty-five years later, I know that your father wanted this," Mr. Farrakhan said, Jet magazine reported.
Walmart said Jet offered it access to "urban and millennial customers," two groups that the retailer's large rural footprint has been slow to attract.
"The way you eat Thai food is not the way you eat any other cuisine," said Jet Tila, a Los Angeles chef whose Melting Pot tours of Thai Town have attracted a following that includes Mr. Bourdain himself.
Despite flying from the United States to Beijing and back in the last two weeks, Nadal said jet lag was not as much a problem as mental fatigue from a grueling season.
Louis C. Seno, who worked in aircraft financing for 30 years before becoming chief executive of Jet Support Services in Chicago, which provides maintenance service programs for business jets, said jet financing was available "but it is much harder to access".
In Long Island City, the truck lot is near two CitiCorp buildings and a major Department of Health office, all rich with office workers, and, Ms. Dunphy said, Jet Blue and the new law school of the City University of New York are scheduled to open buildings nearby early next year.
