There is a local restaurant here in Tucson (so I am pretty sure that at least one other person on this list will know the place I am referring to) called Sakura's that is a retaurant where the cook comes out and cooks on a grill that is right at your table - teppan, I think it is called. Well, anyway, this restaurant has been bought out by Benihanas. There are two such restaurants, one on the north side of Tucson, and one that is more downtown, and I assume that Benihanas has bought both of them.
When my parents, my sister, and I went there for dinner the other night all the waiers, etc were wearing shirts that said "Benihanas" on them and the waiter said that they would be changing the sign and starting the remodeling in the next week or so.
This doesn't have any thing to do with quilting, but it sorta reminds me of the whole LQS vs. Joanne's thing. In fact I wonder if there are any Joanne's that at one time were LQS's that got bought out by Joanne's.
Brian Christiansen