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TOKYO — Restaurant operator Yoshinoya D&C Co plans to resume by August serving "gyudon" beef bowls for 24 hours a day, company officials said Friday. The company will restart the around-the-clock gyudon sales for the first time since it stopped serving the dish in February 2004, following the Japanese government's ban on U.S. beef imports due to the discovery of the first U.S. case of mad cow disease, formally called bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
In September 2006, Yoshinoya sold the dish only for one special day, about two months after the government partially lifted the U.S. beef ban.
The company now serves gyudon between 11 a.m. and midnight every day by using beef imported from Australia and Mexico as well. It now expects stable procurement of beef through a further increase in suppliers.
