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The town wants it to be non-chain, the students need it affordable, I want it to be British, tradition and the brand demand it should fit in with the original feel of the bakery.
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This particular place is a larger, non-chain establishment filled with the requisite weird customers and shelves upon shelves of junk.
Cheap Thrill: North, South, East and West : Scrubbles.net 2009
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Besides, I'm really, really cheap: If it's a film I'm interested in, I try the library first ... and then the non-chain, locally owned video store in the University district that actually wipes the disks clean between rentals.
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Better yet, walk a block east and hit up Grand Burrito for awesome real non-chain Mex.
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But when you venture downtown, as I often do, and try to eat in non-chain restaurants while shopping in boutiques, you need to be self-sufficient.
ProWomanProLife » They’re big. They’re bulky. They’re part of life 2009
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Vigorously gentrified, this is a fertile locale these days, full of delicatessens, non-chain coffee shops and men in sockless sandals whatever the weather.
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Lavanya Ramanathan: I have a friend who swears by Chloe's Coffee in Kentlands in Gaithersburg, which is not where I'd normally think of for non-chain hangouts.
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Zach, you would starve, the non-chain joints are even worse.
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And we're looking for non-chain stuff if possible; we already know that Perkins and Bruegger's serve what they serve to the quality level they serve it.
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The store's owners, Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade, both 74 and so in synch they often wear the same colors without planning to, said they are simply too tired to keep steering Washington's most prominent non-chain bookstore -- a premier stop on top-shelf author tours and a frequent setting for book talks on C-SPAN -- through the uncertainty of an industry threatened by e-books.
With sale of D.C.'s Politics and Prose, a bookstore's legacy is up for grabs 2010
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