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TRIAD RESTAURANTS JUMPING OFF FOOD-TAX CAMPAIGN FOR BALLPARK

          Despite earlier supporting a campaign to back a 1%
     prepared-food tax to help finance a new ballpark in the
     Triad, some restaurant owners are now dropping that support,
     according to Justin Catanoso of the Greensboro NEWS &
     RECORD.  Around 30 Wendy's restaurants "bailed out first,
     just three days" after the campaign launch.  Now, 62 Subway
     shops -- whose planned promo included free tickets to the
     '98 World Series -- have dropped out.  Subway spokesperson
     Greg Cox: "We don't think the prepared food tax is the way
     to go."  Walt Klein, Manger of "Vote Yes for MLB," said that
     restaurants knew the prepared foods tax was the "only public
     financing choice on the ballot in May."  Klein: "Every
     single step of the way, all of the facts were on the table. 
     What's happened is inconceivable" (NEWS & RECORD, 3/12). 
          FEAR OF LOST SALES: While polls show the prepared-food
     tax trailing, most indicate a large number of undecideds.
     Catanoso: "So what happened?  In a word -- fear.  Of lost
     sales and eroded profits."  Subway's Cox: "We have way too
     many stores and way too much to lose to jeopardize our
     stores.  We don't think it would be in the best interest to
     stay involved."  While Catanoso wrote that the "depth of the
     opposition" is "unclear," the "defections to the stadium tax
     cause aren't over yet."  Pepsi is "receiving pressure from"
     Lowes Foods supermarkets to drop its involvement and Pespi
     is "now weighing whether to drop its promotion."  But about
     12 Pizza Hut restaurants "appear willing to stay involved." 
     Ballpark proponents were hoping to use the restaurant
     support to build a database of young voters to target for
     the May vote, but "other ways of building that database are
     now underway" (Greensboro NEWS & RECORD, 3/12). 

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