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The National Restaurant Association is a restaurant industry business association in the United States, representing more than 380,000 restaurant locations. [4] It also operates the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation. [4] The association was founded in 1919 and is headquartered in Washington, D.C. [4]
The first director of the NRA was Hugh S. Johnson, a retired United States Army general who had been in charge of supervising the wartime economy in 1917–1918. He was named Time magazine's "Man of the Year" in 1933. Johnson saw the NRA as a national crusade designed to restore employment and regenerate industry.
The expanded Prime Outlets held a ribbon-cutting ceremony at midnight on Black Friday, November 24, 2006. [19] Prime Outlets was purchased by Simon Property Group in September 2010, and the malls were added to Simon's Premium Outlets division. With the change in ownership, the mall was renamed Pleasant Prairie Premium Outlets. [20]
The United States restaurant industry was projected at $899 billion in sales for 2020 by the National Restaurant Association, the main trade association for the industry in the United States. [1] [2] An estimated 99% of companies in the industry are family-owned small businesses with fewer than 50 employees. [3]
In 1986, Handy Andy acquired six Mr. HOW stores from Nashville, Tennessee-based Service Merchandise in the Chicago area. The stores were later renamed. [3] In 1987, Handy Andy acquired the Forest City lumber chain with stores in Ohio, Michigan, and Illinois from Forest City Enterprises. [4]
The event brought together the city's top restaurants, representing a near-endless array of cuisines. Tim Zagat and Joe Baum are credited for the "first restaurant week". Tim Zagat in a 2010 The Atlantic article said that he did not see or dream of the possibility of using American Express and Coca-Cola as sponsors for future events at the time.
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