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Highway 401 service centres to get revamped - The Windsor Star

Thursday April 8th, 2010

Rest centres to suit all tastesBY CRAIG PEARSON Highway 401 motorists will soon go from nothing to quite something. The 222-kilometre stretch of 401 that has been a wasteland for service centres the last two years should seem like ritzy row in comparison. The Ontario government announced Wednesday that 20 s...

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Canadian Owned New York Fries Opens Stores In Hong Kong And Bahrain - Cambridge Now!

Tuesday December 15th, 2009

I remember hanging out with Jay Gould's family 25 years ago and hearing him talk about starting a business which would initially sell, skin-on french fries and Coca-Cola. I thought it was a bold move for someone who had cut his teeth on one of Canada's first fresh food restaurants ...a little place called C...

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New York Fries Opens 200th Store - Foodservice World

Thursday November 5th, 2009

TORONTO - It wasn't too long ago that Jay Gould purchased the rights to a New York City-based QSR concept specializing in french fries, which he then launched in Toronto. It was 1984 to be exact, and tomorrow, November 6, 2009, Gould's Toronto-based company will be opening its 200th store in Hong Kong. The ...

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Breaking into the Burger Business - BNN

Wednesday November 4th, 2009

How has the burger business been faring in a recession? The answer may surprise you. BNN speaks to Jay Gould, president of New York Fries & South St. Burger Company; and Linda Strachan, senior account manager, NPD Group.   http://watch.bnn.ca/wednesday/#clip231179

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Despite its name, N.Y. Fries is Canadian - Telegraph Journal

Monday September 28th, 2009

By: Derwin Gowan ST. ANDREWS - An upper St. John River valley potato grower has a stake in the success of Lori Bourque's business in Dieppe. Bourque owns the franchise for the New York Fries restaurant chain in Champlain Place. The Toronto-based chain, with 197 locations mostly in Canada, slices, fries and ...

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Q107 Derringer in the morning and his love for New York Fries

Friday September 4th, 2009

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Fries King no Health Nut - London Free Press

Monday August 17th, 2009

Mon, August 17, 2009  - by Hank Daniszewski   Jay Gould never set out to become the french fry king or make fast food healthier -- it just happened that way.    As president of New York Fries, Gould led the drive to use healthier cooking oils in the fast-food industry. Earlier he co-fou...

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