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Saturday, August 25,2001
The Baytown Sun 3A
Greenspan take note:
Doggie-bag use climbing; weak economy cited
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The Associated Press
CHICAGO — The economy
is going to the doggie bags.
In an economic indicator that
Alan Greenspan might do well
to consider, restaurants are
reporting an increase in doggie-
bag requests over the past year or.
two. They say it shows that their
customers are feeling the bite
from the unfriendly economy.
“People who wouldn’t have
thought about it a year ago will
say, ‘You know what, I’m going
to take that with me,”’ says Izzy
Kharasch, a Chicago-based
restaurant industry consultant.
“They now will take home the
smallest of portions.”
The upswing was cited in an
industry trends report this month
by the National Restaurant
Association, which said one in
five dinner customers now asks
to take uneaten food home.
T\venty percent of 'the 450
restaurants the trade group sur-
veyed said their customers were
requesting more doggie bags
than two years ago.
Kharasch says he makes extra
sure the restaurants he advises
do doggie bags these days, even
the expensive ones, where the
average check is $80 a person.
“People used to be too embar-
rassed to ask for doggie bags.
Not any more. They don’t want
to waste anything.” he says.
Who — or what — let the
doggie bags out?
Restaurateurs say it is general-
ly the economy, though calorie-
counters looking to make today’s
heftier dinner portions last
through tomorrow’s lunch also
are doggie-bag users.
Customers at Elliott Fread’s
restaurant in New York have
started making his sandwiches
last for two days.
“They won’t say it’s because
of money. They’ll say, ‘This is
really good — can you wrap it
up?”’ says Fread, owner of
Bimmy’s in Chelsea Market.
“But I know it’s due to monetary
reasons.”
Judy Katz admits it, to an
extent. A book collaborator in
New York, she and her husband
are well-off but “feeling the
pinch” from the stock market’s
swoon. They now dine at a
neighborhood bistro instead of
the elegant Le Cirque and take
their leftovers home.
“My portfolio is gone,” she
laments. “But I’m not going to
give up going out to eat. Now we
share a meal, and we take home
a doggie bag.”
Some diners are just staying
home.
The average number of U.S.
restaurant meals per person per
year is down for the first time
since 1990, according to the Port
Washington, N.Y.-based NPD
Group, which conducts industry
research. The number was 137
meals purchased per capita over
the 12-month period ended in
February, down 2.8 percent from
141 the previous year.
Still, the NPD data show the
average American still eats out
15 times more a year than a
decade ago.
“Maybe people think a little
more frugally when there is an
economic downturn,” says
Steven Anderson, the National
Restaurant Association’s presi-
dent and chief executive. “But I
think we’ve become such an
essential part of people’s lives
that they’re going out to eat
regardless.”
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Bus blames weakening economy - not tax cut - for shrinking surplus
The Associated Press
CRAWFORD, Texas — President Bush
blamed the slumping economy for the
shrinking budget surplus, rather than his
tax cut, and said it’s now up to Congress
to restrain spending. “Don’t go hog
wild,” he warned lawmakers Friday.
He opened the door to using Social
Security reserves to float the government
through any recession.
“No question, the economy has slowed
down. And therefore, Congress must
adjust its spending attitudes,” Bush said
two months after Congress passed his tax
cut package.
Democrats have said the tax cut and
Bush’s proposed increases in defense
spending threaten the Social Security
surplus.
The president shrugged off private
economists who question how the admin-
istration can pin its budget hopes on a
White House assumption that the nation’s
Council
economy will rebound and grow by more
than 3 percent next year, given the cur-
rent prolonged slowdown.
“We picked the number that seemed
reasonable,” Bush said in a news confer-
ence near his Texas ranch. “If I’m off by
a point or two, then Congress can just
adjust their (spending) sights.”
Even the administration’s new surplus
projections, released earlier this week,
show little margin for error without dip-
ping into the money reserved for Social
Security, an account which both parties
have called sacrosanct.
During his presidential campaign,
when economic growth was strong, Bush
pledged not to touch that money. On
Friday he said, “The only reason we
should use Social Security funds is in
case of an economic recession or war.”
The anemic economy is now all but
stalled, although most economists believe
it has not yet slipped into a recession.
Fielding a scattershot of questions,
Bush said he was sticking to his recent
decision limiting federally funded embry-
onic stem cell research. And he refused to
send any U.S. delegation to next week’s
United Nations conference on racism “so
long as they pick on Israel.”
Arab nations are pressuring the inter-
national forum, convening Friday in
South Africa, to denounce Zionism as
racist.
“If they use the forum as a way to iso-
late our friend and strong ally, we will
not participate” at any level, Bush said.
Black civil rights activists have pressed
him to send Secretary of State Colin
Powell to the conference.
On the deadlocked Middle East peace
process, Bush blamed the Palestinians
and their leader, Yasser Arafat.
“If the Palestinians are interested in a
dialogue, then I strongly urge Mr. Arafat
to put 100 percent effort... into stopping
the terrorist activity. And I believe he can
do a better job of doing that,” Bush said.
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and the addition of a police
lieutenant on patrol.
Capital expenditures will go
for vehicle replacements, radio
and testing equipment: and
imaging software for the
Court.
In other business, Council:
• Held public hearings on an
AT&T Wireless Services per-
mit for a 140-foot monopole
telecommunications tower and
antenna at 2301 Decker Drive
and on the city’s 2001-2002
budget.
• Set Tuesday, Sept. 4, at
6:45 p.m. as the date of a hear-
ing on the proposed tax rate,
which will remain the same as
the 2000-2001 tax rate.
• Awarded the annual
tary sewer rehabilitation con-
tract- Year 2001 to P.M.
Ohtuaries_____
Marcus Ljghtfbot
“M.L” Moore Jr.
Marcus Lightfoot “M.L.”
Moore Jr., 86, of Baytown,
passed away, Thursday, August
23,2001 in a local hospital.
Marcus was bom April 15,
1915 in Waurika, Okla. He was
a member of Baytown Archery
Association and a retired car-
penter from Exxon Refinery.
Marcus was preceded in
death by his wife, Bernice
Moore.
He is survived by his son and
daughter-in-law, Mark and
Chris Moore of Wichita, Kan.;
daughter and son-in-law, Mary
and Mike Griffiths ofRosharon;
brother and sister-in-law, Tom
and Letha Moore of Burk
Burnette; sisters, Ruth Helen
Hight of Euless; Lucy Beth
Hughes of Itasca; grandchil-
dren, Michelle and John
Bradford, Matthew Griffiths,
Lindsay Moore, John Moore
and great-grandson, Owen
McKinley Bradford.
Visitation will be from 11
a.m. - 1 p.m. today, August 25,
2001 at Navarre Funeral Home.
Graveside services will be at
2 p.m. today, August 25,2001 at
Memory Gardens Cemetery
with Chaplain Jerry Chandler
officiating.
Arrangements are under the
direction of Navarre Funeral
Home, 2444 Rollingbrook,
Baytown, 281-422-8 111.
Construction and
Rehabilitation LP in the
amount of $887,875.
• Accepted the Harris
County Appraisal District’s
certified 2001 Appraisal Roll.
• Received the Annual
Report of the Baytown
Housing Authority from
director Stephen Jean.
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