Using the food service industry as an example, imagine a restaurant that has both dine-in services and take-out delivery services.
Like Pizza Hut, it offers dine-in restaurants, take-away outlets, and delivery units.
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During such times, he says, Americans are more prone to travel closer to home, stay at less expensive hotels, eat at fast-food restaurants rather than fancier dine-in restaurants and plan more online trips looking for the best deals.
Pizza Hut Delivery added that its long-term aim was to have 700 outlets across the UK. The business is run separately to the 330 dine-in Pizza Hut restaurants in the UK, which last month were bought by investment firm Rutland Partners.
Islamist militants of Ansar Dine and al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) have also destroyed half of the World Heritage tombs and mausoleums in the name of radical Islam.
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After that, set off to explore or dine in the contempo-chic Bay 223, overlooking the lagoon.
Kidal - home of the head of Ansar Dine, the main militant group in northern Mali - was bombed overnight by French forces, Malian officials say.
The streets are filled with music and parades, hundreds of guests dine among the copper pot-stills in the cavernous distilleries and local shopkeepers decorate their stores to reflect the thriller theme.
In recent weeks, Ansar al-Dine, another of the north's militias, has threatened to attack any country in North or West Africa that supports the government of Mali in its quest to retake its territory.
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However, one of their main partners in this strategy, the Tuareg-led Islamist group Ansar Dine, which they hoped to talk into leaving the coalition with terrorist groups AQIM (Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb) and MUJAO (Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa) it had entered into, has betrayed them by taking part in the offensive against the Malian government.
Then, dine in one of the two on-site specialty restaurants: Oystercatchers, for fresh local seafood and organic ingredients or Armani's, a classic northern Italian restaurant on the 14th floor, which Zagat called "extraordinary".
Come to the neighbourhood local, Societi Bistro, to dine in the courtyard garden, with Table Mountain views, or in the atmospheric, brick-walled and wine-rack covered interior on unfussy bistro dishes, such as ostrich burgers or tomato fettuccine, all washed down with local wine or beers that have been expertly sourced.
In the ample open-air seating, visitors can sip gourmet cocktails stirred up by mixologist Marco Faraone and dine on authentic Italian spuntini platters and wood-fired pizzas in Sydney's world-renowned summer weather.
Though Islamist militant groups affiliated with al Qaeda, such as Ansar Dine, are rampant in the north, they co-exist with other anti-government opportunists, complicating U.S. involvement in an offensive touted as anti-terror.
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Kidal was until recently under the control of the Ansar Dine Islamist group, which has strong ties to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
BBC: French troops in Mali take Kidal, last Islamist holdout
Reports have also emerged that a senior figure in the main militant Islamist movement - Ansar Dine - has been captured near the Algerian border by a rival separatist group.
Kidal, 1, 500km (930 miles) north-east of the capital Bamako, was until recently under the control of the Ansar Dine Islamist group, which has strong ties to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
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But their ability to work together and fight, should Ansar Dine militants somehow evade the Franco-Malian advance, is very much in question.
And for four days starting 7 March, London gourmands will descend upon the historic Tobacco Docks, a 19th-century warehouse in Wapping, East London, to dine in basement vaults for the third instalment of the moveable feast.
Various factions of al Qaeda-linked militants are reportedly in the area, including Ansar Dine.
Of course, some would argue that this 120-seat restaurant is the least desirable place in the country to dine.
So you will need to book months in advance to dine at Island Cottage, a restaurant run by the husband-and-wife team John Desmond and Ellmary Fenton.
For an additional fee, a dating service could offer on-site assistance, perhaps in the form of a woman who arranges to dine at the next table, so she can eavesdrop on how the client is doing.
Although they have since been sidelined militarily by Ansar Dine and AQIM, they are the only group in the north with both popular legitimacy - and a realistic chance of cutting a deal with any government in Bamako.
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