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Page 6 The Battalion Thursday, January 19,1989 Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity Spring Rush 1989 The Untouchables t« Prohibition Party Thursday, January 19th at the Pike House Featuring LIVE -- CORDRAY from Houston Band Starts at 9:30pm Texas A&M Greg Clay 764-3984 James Martingano 696-1704 The Pike House 823-2786 1989 Isn’t It Time? COMMIT TO BE FIT! Semester Special $68 • Classes 7am-7:45pm • High & Low Impact Aerobics • Hydra-fitness Equipment • Tanning Head on Over to Sonic for a Brown Bag Special! 2 Burgers, 2 Fries & 2 medium Cokes* ONLY PLUS TAX * OR OTHER SOFT DRINK. College Station 104 University 696-6427 Bryan 914 S. Texas Ave 779-1085 /ML JT 4r e CWN AJLIL Welcomes: MCENTIRE IN CONCERT WITH RICKY VAN SHELTON Friday - February 10th G. Rollie White Coliseum 8:00 p.m. TICKETS NOW ON SALE Tickets are $15.50, available at the MSC Box Office & Dillards in the Post Oak Mall. For more infonmation call 845-1234. Warped by Scott McCulla 600V EVENING. THE FOLLOWING WKPD PROGRAM CONTAINS STROM SUBJECT MATTER THAT SOME VIEWERS MIGHT... ALFRED ZONE WRPD STATION MAWA6£R f7 £N SEC0NP THOUGHT, I'M NOT GOlHG TO TELL 700. YOU'LL JV5T NAVE TO WATCH IT ANP MAKE UP YOUR OWV M/NP. ITS m T/ME WEK UP TO S ttmd Waldo by Kevin Thom Court upholds ruling for couple who won car AUSTIN (AP) — The Texas Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a $135,000 Fort Worth judgment for a couple who won an expensive BMW car on a coin flip, but lost the car when the salesman persuaded the couple to display the car, then resold it. Lee and Kathy Tyra sued R.D. Ryno Jr., who owned Bavarian Motors in Fort Worth at the time of the coin toss in March 1981. Bavarian Motors was sold, and af ter the sale, rep resentatives asked the Tyras for permission to displat the car in an auto show. The BMW was then returned to Bavarian Motors, and was taken by Ryno, whosoldii in February 1982, according to court records. The Tyras had discussed purchasing a BMW-M1 from Ryno for $125,000 but, according to court re cords, Ryno proposed a double or nothing coin flip. The Tyras won, and Ryno handed over the keys, say ing, “It’s yours.” The Tyras were given the “German ti tle” to the car. Afterwards, the Tyras testified that they received pa per dealer’s license tags from Ryno and had the car serviced at Bavarian Motors several times. The trial court granted $135,000 judgment to ihe Tyras, including $125,000 for the car and $10,000 in exemplary damages. Ryno appealed to the 2nd Court of Appeals at Fori Worth, which rejected his arguments that he owned the BMW and that the trial court judgment enforced a gambling contract. The appeals court opinion said the trial court could not have compelled Ryno to honor the wager by deliv ering the BMW, but once he did, the facts of delivery were sufficient to establish the transfer of the carasa gib. DATA in dat< KANIi in 601 RECF baske la™ studer STUD 402 R INTEF noon c MSC wome STUD ADUL Prevei NARC at 845 ALCO tion at PARE able in lice an ALL U BUCK dent A 1. HELLE Northg AGRIC p.m. at TAU K Bryan. SPRIN pick tif MSC. CAMP 7:30 p. DATA bershif lobby. ALCO! tion an RECRI presea TAUK TAMU about s CLASS show ii STUDI 211 Re Items. no late the na aBattc on a fii haveq Luby’s offers ‘to go’ service for diners tired of fast food SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Turn in your trays and neatly wrapped sil verware. Forget about having to wait in long lines as others decide on their choice of salads or desserts and then having to balance heavy trays as you look for a seat. Luby’s Cafeterias, known for its assortment of salads, mounds of meat and delightful desserts, is giv ing customers another choice: eat in side or use a new, drive-through service at its newest, biggest cafete ria. “We think we have a market and we want to capitalize on it,” said Ver non “Bud” Schrader, vice president of marketing for the San Antonio- based cafeteria chain. “Obviously the fast-food people have developed the take-home food market, but the foods are essentially limited to Mexican food, hamburg ers, fried chicken and pizza,” he said. “I think we have what we can at test can be a success because a lot of people like our menu and a better- balanced meal,” Schrader said. The new drive-through cafeteria will open on Feb. 13 just north of downtown. It will have about 16,000 square feet of space, including the area that will accommodate the “To Go” and “Park and Order” areas. Most Luby’s have about 10,500 square feet of space. The drive-through service is not quite like ordering a Big Mac, a Whopper or a two-piece chicken dinner. Those wishing to place “To Go” orders at Luby’s can either call in and then walk through a separate entrance to the cafeteria to pick up their order. Or, they can drive in and park in one of six “To Go” parking spaces that will have laminated menus and intercoms to place the order. After a customer places an order, the cafeteria workers will prepare the order and tell the customer to drive to the window and pick up the order. The kinks will have to be worked out after the first few days, but Sch rader believes cafeteria customers will not have to wait much longer than they would at other fast-food places. “This is just an expansion of giv ing the customer another conve nience,” he said. “I think the time probably has come for people in the cafeteria business to try this,” Joe Doyle, analyst who follows Luby’s, for Smith-Barney in New York, said “It probably has been a logistical challenge because of the diversity ol the menu,” he said. “I’d he inter ested in looking (at) how they pack age their food.” “Obviously, it has to be convenienl and easy to handle, but you don’i want your potatoes and gravy spill ing into your corn,” Doyle said. Kc SAN A motion st dependei They nents of parts of a Kaepa s terms of them cau — both or The S founded Texas or double-la But Schrader said Luby’s will use dif nounce d terent packages, depending on which items the customer orders. “When we can, we combine food but if there is any possibility of spill age, the food is individualized,” htl said. “We have some three-compart ment plates, but in some cases . . .1 will be individualized.” Luby’s, founded in 1947 by two restauranteurs, now has 1 18 cafete rias in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mex ico, Arizona and Arkansas and Iasi fiscal year ending in August had sales of $254 million. For years, Luby’s customers were able to take home food from the caf eteria, but Luby’s never marketed its “To Go” business until late 1987. In September of that year at its cafeteria near the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Luby’s put up a separate “To Go” entrance in the cafeteria to test customers’ desires. owners, 1 keting in into the ithletic si recorded 1988. Now it utive off daring “g shoe com lines of s program, The ei profitabh “This (movie),” “In thi experiem agement change tl different “The results were astounding and we knew we had a market there,” he said. Last January, Luby’s kicked off its “To Go” marketing program with printed menus and on-premises pro motions. The drive-through cafeteria is a test project for Luby’s, and Schrader said he doesn’t know if it will be ex panded to other cafeterias. The sep arate “To Go” entrances may be ex panded to include other stores, Schrader said. IT'S A OOOV THING HE WA£> WEARING A HELMET. He believes, however, that other cafeteria chains like Furr’s and Wyatt’s will begin drive-throughs soon. Officials from those cafeterias did i not return telephone calls to The As sociated Press. “Our competitors will follow us and some are in the process of doing it right now,” Schrader said.“This is just an expanding market and all good businesses have to capitalize on it.” “This requires more labor, no question about it, but all of this is re turn on our investment and we feel good about it,” Schrader said. Bon Appetit. Cfi vn *E