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...Roadhouse, owner of the Bubba’s 33 chain of sports bars La Francaise de Jeux, the operator of France’s national lottery New Hope Liuhe, a Chinese animal-feed maker and provider of related financial services...
...Texas Roadhouse and Outback Steakhouse owner Bloomin’ Brands, two other chains with notable pork exposure, tumbled 4.4 per cent and 9.4 per cent, respectively....
...Analysts credit Texas Roadhouse’s success to conservative price increases, helping to maintain its strong value reputation....
...“One time I was at a Texas Roadhouse,” she recalls, referring to the steakhouse chain, “and this girl came sobbing her eyes out because she knew I was there.” It’s a feeling she can relate to....
...Roadhouse and Denny’s....
...South Australia, for example, is one and a half times the size of Texas, yet only 1.6 million people – a scant 8 per cent of the country’s population – live there, mostly in its capital, Adelaide....
...In Texas, the brisket comes wrapped in newspaper and is washed down with a freezing cold beer slid along the counter. Barbecue sauces are state secrets....
...Steakhouse chains, from Texas Roadhouse in the middle market to Morton’s at the high end, have a higher exposure to beef costs – as much as 40 per cent, said Mr DiFrisco....
...The louche inn where the plot boils over has become a neon- festooned roadhouse in which the sex-hungry and sex-anguished characters conceal themselves in closets and under beds....
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