Cara Operations

Cara Operations Limited is a Canadian company that provides catering services to airlines and operates several restaurant chains including: Harvey's, Swiss Chalet, Kelsey's, Milestones and Montana's. Its headquarters are in Vaughan, Ontario in the Greater Toronto Area. It was previously headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario. In November, 2008, the company moved to its new headquarters in Vaughan, Ontario near Vaughan Mills shopping centre.

In 2002, sales for the whole company were C$1.9 billion. 88% of the business comes from the restaurant services with the remaining 12% deriving from airline catering.

The name Cara was derived from the first two letters of each of the words "Canada Railway"; it is also an Irish word meaning "friend".

History

While officially charted in 1883 as Canada Railway News Company selling newspapers, magazines and confectionaries at railway stations, the company's roots go back to the mid 1850s when Thomas Patrick Phelan was selling fruit and newspapers to train passengers between Hamilton and Buffalo.Canada Railway News soon moved into the food business, catering to a boom in passenger rail traffic in Canada.

Tulnici

Tulnici is a commune in Vrancea County, Romania, located in the northwestern part of the county. It is one of the largest administrative areas in Vrancea County, situated at an altitude of 480 m above sea level at the foothills of the Vrancea Mountains. The commune is composed of four villages: Coza, Greşu, Lepşa and Tulnici, extending over an area of 30,000 hectares. It also included two other villages until 2003, when these were split off to form Păuleşti Commune. Tulnici is attested around the year 1466.

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