Byron-

Please remember that there is a difference between the Hard Rock Cafe and the Hard Rock Casino (Las Vegas). Peter Morton sold his remaining interest in the Hard Rock Cafe chain for about 450 million the same year he built the Hard Rock Casino in Vegas for about -- well around 450 or so million. They cut a deal to share the name. The Cafe (at least in the U.S>) has nothing to do with the company that runs the casino. So U.S. HR Cafe chips have no attachment to gambling in any way.

If anyone has facts to contradict me -- please forward them.

Al