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Kroc came close to buying Taco Bell, Baskin-Robbins and California pie chain Marie Callendar's in the late 1960s.

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Zwika Pres, who co-owns Nanoosh, a chain of Mediterranean restaurants in Manhattan, had to close them Sunday in advance of the storm.

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