Article: RESTAURATEURS CAN'T WIN WITH FORTUNE COOKIES.(Main)

Byline: Sylvia Townsend Los Angeles Daily News

Restaurateur Lew Mitchell says fortune cookies bring him nothing but misfortune.

He says he is always held responsible for some ill wind that might befall customers at his Orient Express restaurant in Los Angeles. "I've had people complain bitterly (about fortune cookies). But nobody has ever come to thank me for the millions of dollars that are going to be on their threshold (promised by a cookie)."

Mitchell and other restaurateurs would like to have nothing to do with the cookies, but when he and others neglect to serve them, customers become as cantankerous as they were when they objected to ...

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