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<LEGEND>
This schedule contains summary financial information extracted from the Riser
Foods, Inc. Consolidated Condensed Balance Sheet, Consolidated Condensed
Statement of Income, and Notes to the Consolidated Condensed Financial
Statements for the second quarter ended 1/11/97 and is qualified in its entirety
by reference to such Form 10-q for the second quarter ended 1/11/97.
</LEGEND>
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