Greetings TOM!   
      
      
    RW>> I forgot to put a smilely on that one. I know of the case. 8^)   
      
    RW>> Dunno if you have any Jack-in-the-Box restaurants around your area,   
    RW>> but they too were sued by a person who got ill from eating one of   
    RW>> their hamburgers that was tainted with the E Coli   
    RW>> bacteria/virus(?)...The end result was that 'Jack' decided that you   
    RW>> couldn't get a hamburger cooked 'your way' anymore; it had to be   
    RW>> cooked 'well done' (burnt in my book) to kill the E. Coli. Tom is   
    RW>> probably well aware of this, as JitB used to be owned by   
    RW>> Ralston-Purina in San Diego and has since gone privately owned by   
    RW>> their employees.   
      
    TW> I sure do rembember them. their place was up on Kerny Mesa and thet   
    TW> had a water tower with their logo on it.   
      
   I worked at Cubic, on the opposite corner of the street they occupied   
   there.   
      
    TW> I used to kid people that they stored their "Secret Sause" in it. Thh   
    TW> wife of the founder was the Mayor of San Diego for a while and after   
    TW> he died and Inherted the monew she Gambled it ALL away plis a million   
    TW> of so.   
      
   Moreen O'Connor...   
      
    TW> "SAN DIEGO - Maureen O'Connor was a physical education teacher who   
    TW> won a seat on the San Diego City Council when she was only 25 years   
    TW> old, later winning two terms as the city's first female mayor as she   
    TW> charmed voters with a populist flair.   
      
    TW> But her rapid rise was matched by her fall, culminating Thursday when   
    TW> she acknowledged in federal court that she took $2.1 million from her   
    TW> late husband's charitable foundation during a decade-long gambling   
    TW> spree in which she won - and lost - more than $1 billion."   
      
   LOL! I remember when she was being investigated for that when we lived   
   there.   
      
    TW> O'Connor, 66, once had a personal fortune that her attorney estimated   
    TW> between $40 million and $50 million, inherited from her husband of 17   
    TW> years, Robert O. Peterson, founder of the Jack in the Box Inc.   
    TW> fast-food chain. She is now virtually broke, living with a sister."   
      
   Money comes and it goes, just like that.   
      
    TW> This From - http://tinyurl.com/k7j49jk   
      
    RW>> We went in their store here in Texas last week and it was a very big   
    RW>> disappointment from their glory days. The place smelled like an old   
    RW>> greasy diner and it was filthy. They had no iced tea fountain drinks   
    RW>> and the service was very poor, like the counter gal was out back   
    RW>> taking a bathroom break with no one to take her place while she was   
    RW>> gone. We didn't want to stay, so we ordered to go. When we got the   
    RW>> burgers open, the buns were soaked in grease and the burgers were   
    RW>> burnt to a crisp. I took the receipt and used the website given on   
    RW>> it for 'visiter review' and gave them a piece of my mind, telling   
    RW>> 'Jack' that we wouldn't be back for more of the same crap.   
      
    TW> I occasionaly go to one once in a while but they have come down a   
    TW> long was since their prime. My biggest problem is that most of the   
    TW> counter clerks speak borderline understandable English. I am sure you   
    TW> have a lot of that in Texan also   
      
   Yes, but they speak English slightly better because they're educated here.   
      
      
       Have a day!   
      
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