<ARTICLE>                     5
<LEGEND>
This Schedule  contains summary financial  information  extracted from Form 10-K
for the fifty-two  week Period ended  September 26, 1999 and is qualified in its
entirety by reference to such financial statements.
</LEGEND>

                             
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