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NTP TIMES FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1996 Local Business B31- jues and many moral I EYE EXAMS $30 By Independent Optometrist 948-3407 OPTICAL ILLUSIONS DISPENSARY kdii Family Owned And Operated Shopping Center 5 1 HOUR SERVICE Some Restrictions Apply Efcspiratofu Problems? The store, which will be built near Ehrlich and Lynn Turner roads, is I expected by summer 1997, the company says. Is the air you breathe in your home making you sick? ask aDOui our saie air auci cleaning special! By BILL COATS i Timea Stan" Writer I 1 ArM fcfljn Veterans Expressway 3 Hi S7 I Vl Ehrlich Rd. Q. I Albertsons HsHe I1 hilt I' s)iltis4 skf1'lly J- store next door, Reuling said. He said construction would take about seven months.

The Albertsons would be the second supermarket at the intersection. A Kash n' Karry supermarket and liquor store are in West Village Commons on the southeastern corner. "That site has had a 'Coming Soon' sign on it for eight years," said Rick Coleman, chief financial officer for the Tampa-based Kash n' Karry Food Stores Inc. "It's been on and off and then it's been on again. Every couple of months we hear a new rumor about the site." Coleman said Kash n' Karry would rather not have a competitor rise up across the road, but supermarket chains his included do that to each other regularly.

He said supermarkets feel the competitive effect even from rivals several miles away. "That new Albertsons will not take all its business from Kash n' Karry," Coleman said. "That store will take a certain percentage of customers from Publix and it will take a certain percentage from MDC UNLIMITED, INC 983-1511 Indoor Air Quality Specialists Tlms art i Winn-Dixie." I Three years ago, Albertson's closed a huge store 2 miles away at the corner of Ehrlich and Dale Mabry Highway. Company officials cited problems with traffic access to the store, at Carrollwood Commons shopping center, and competition from other suburban supermarkets. The store previously had been a Jewel Osco, and Albertson's had acquired it a year earlier in a buyout of Jewel's Florida stores.

Ob ecQG asm? smm CARROLLWOOD An Al-; bertsons supermarket, long stalled by land-acquisition problems, should be under construction by year's end and open by summer 1997, a company official said. "It's been a long, drawn-out Ideal to get the property," said Mike Reuling, executive vice pres-! ident for store development at Al-; bertson's which is based in Boise, Idaho. Reuling said Albertson's has owned parts of the grassy field I near the intersection of Ehrlich and Lynn Turner roads for years but has had to arrange some land Swaps to acquire the pieces it wanted closest to Lynn Turner. As that process ends, the chain is planning "a basic store," a Albertsons a liquor vocallD I 1 ftO SG3 A couple's small eating is catering to a neighborhood crowd and aiming to introduce Japanese food to more Americans. iy KARI K.

RIDGE jjmet Corresponds CARROLLWOOD Upon moving to the United States from Ijjapah in 1988, Ryo Iwabuchi was surprised to learn how often Americans ate sushi. In Japan, Iwabuchi, 26, ate the meal only occasionally. But when he realized that Americans qouldn't seem to get enough of the Irice and fish dishes, Iwabuchi deeded to open a sushi bar. He and his wife, Carolyn Wild-Jman-Iwabuchi, moved to Tampa irom California two years ago, and opened Kaisen Sushi in Carroll-wood in January. The small restaurant offers sushi meals as well as some teriyaki items.

Last month, County commissioners approved an alcoholic beverage for the business in the Mission Bell shopping center to sell and beer. I "Tampa is an open spot for the sushi crowd," said Iwabuchi, who began working in restaurants at age 16. "This is, a neighborhood business, and we share customers 'with the theaters and the pub next Idpor. We're already building up a Jot of regular customers who had never tried sushi before." Iwabuchi wants people to realize that "sushi" does not refer to Jraw fish. Sushi, in fact, is the term for the Japanese tradition of preparing rice with vinegar and herbs.

Cooked fish makes up more than half the sushi meals on Kaisen Sushi's menu. it The small restaurant at 12785 Dale Mabry Highway consists of six tables and 11 chairs at the sushi Ibar. Carolyn Wildman-Iwabuchi said she and her husband considered opening a coffee house or a pub before deciding on the Japa- nfese restaurant. I "We decided to stick with what Ryo knew, and it seems to be working," she said. Iwabuchi is the first to admit that "sushi is not cheap," and prices at the restaurant range si A hi Ml Time photo FRASER HALE Hideo Kajiura prepares sushi at Kaisen Sushi in Mission Bell plaza in Carrollwood.

Owner Ryo Iwabuchi says he and his staff of five put together meals at the bar in front of people so customers can see how much food they get. iss' sgii; Sale Ends Monday 1 SEALY Extra Firm Luxury SEALY Firm Luxury SEALY Ultra Plush Luxury SEALY Super Firm on mi OIHIfl mum MUCH Al PRICK 1149 $78 ltK. 249 $128 Twin ea. pc, Full ea. pc, $229 $119 $350 $199 SEALY Plush Extra Firm Compvr Oil MH ai mix e.

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"We're not greedy, we aren't looking to expand right away," Iwabuchi said. "Right now the restaurant is still a baby. Our goal is to introduce the people in Tampa to sushi." Kaisen Sushi is closed Tuesdays, and is open for lunch Monday through Friday from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.; and for dinner Monday through Thursday from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m.; on Friday from 5 p.m.

to 11 p.m.; on Saturday from 1 p.m. to 11 p.m. and on Sunday from 1 p.m. to 10 p.m. For information, call the restaurant at 969-3848.

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