[Lee Stewart]

July 1985. My business partner and I decide to take a week's vacation in San Francisco. I've never been there or CA nor has my partner. It's the middle of the summer going to CA. Packed shorts and T-shirts.

We arrive at about 10 PM at night. Weather is warmish. No problem. The next morning we are going to Alcatraz for the tour. Have breakfast and as we are drinking our final cups of coffee we watch the fog roll in and the temperature drops from about 77 to 50 degrees.

Off we go to buy sweats, long pants and jackets. Never once did I wear any of the clothes I brought with me. We did it all and then some. Great vacation. Eating Dungess crabs almost every night for dinner.

We enter a restaurant and after looking at the menu I asked the waiter why they didn't serve Rice-A-Roni - the San Francisco Treat. He laughed and told me no restaurant has it. It is just a marketing strategy and a very successful one as you are not the only person to ask for it.