No frying tonight after 'Obama' eatery closes
A TAKEAWAY restaurant called the "Obama Fried Chicken," complete with a cartoon of a smiling US President Barack Obama as its logo,Dolphins jerseys wholesale has been shut by its owners, three college students in Beijing.
The students said they temporarily closed the eatery yesterday because of the flood of requests for interviews from domestic and foreign reporters. This had "disturbed their business as well as their studies," according to a report in the Legal Evening News.,wholesale POLO Ralph Lauren SERIES,
Obama Fried Chicken, or OFC, was a small rented kitchen with take-away services in premises that used to be a public bath house in the Chinese capital. It attracted public attention even before it opened last Saturday after it featured in major domestic newspapers and even made headlines abroad, including in the Washington Post.
Reports focused on the fact that the eatery's OFC name was similar to that of Kentucky Fried Chicken, and its logo, Obama wearing a Colonel Sanders-style bow tie and suspenders, was also close to being a copy of KFC's.
The Washington Post said a KFC China spokesman had emailed the newspaper to say the restaurant, situated near a college in Beijing, was not affiliated with the brand and the company was considering legal action.
"It is a knock-off and has nothing to do with us and it infringes on our brand trademark," the email said. "We find it distasteful."
Then, on the day it opened for business, the students changed the eatery's name to "UFO,,Nike shox shoes," which,Moncler women's jacketsChina nfl jerseys wholesale they said, indicated that the shop was an "unidentified object" to avoid talk of copyright infringement.
A TAKEAWAY restaurant called the "Obama Fried Chicken," complete with a cartoon of a smiling US President Barack Obama as its logo,Dolphins jerseys wholesale has been shut by its owners, three college students in Beijing.
The students said they temporarily closed the eatery yesterday because of the flood of requests for interviews from domestic and foreign reporters. This had "disturbed their business as well as their studies," according to a report in the Legal Evening News.,wholesale POLO Ralph Lauren SERIES,
Obama Fried Chicken, or OFC, was a small rented kitchen with take-away services in premises that used to be a public bath house in the Chinese capital. It attracted public attention even before it opened last Saturday after it featured in major domestic newspapers and even made headlines abroad, including in the Washington Post.
Reports focused on the fact that the eatery's OFC name was similar to that of Kentucky Fried Chicken, and its logo, Obama wearing a Colonel Sanders-style bow tie and suspenders, was also close to being a copy of KFC's.
The Washington Post said a KFC China spokesman had emailed the newspaper to say the restaurant, situated near a college in Beijing, was not affiliated with the brand and the company was considering legal action.
"It is a knock-off and has nothing to do with us and it infringes on our brand trademark," the email said. "We find it distasteful."
Then, on the day it opened for business, the students changed the eatery's name to "UFO,,Nike shox shoes," which,Moncler women's jacketsChina nfl jerseys wholesale they said, indicated that the shop was an "unidentified object" to avoid talk of copyright infringement.
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