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Carvalho and the defense fund did agree to a deal ensuring that the Square's Dunkin' Donuts will not have all the trappings of a typical franchise.
In a major victory for the movement to open national fast food restaurants in the Square, a local business executive recently cemented a deal to bring a Dunkin' Donuts franchise to the corner of Eliot Street and JFK Street next month.
The new franchise was able to open because of the existence of a previous fast food restaurant on the site. Such establishments were allowed to continue operating when the city passed the Fast Food Ordinances, a series of regulations restricting the access of fast food restaurants to the Square.
Carvalho said the franchise would probably offer soups, bagels and deli sandwiches in addition to the standard Dunkin' Donuts fare.
For Willie Kennedy, a 72-year-old grandmother and former member of San Francisco's Board of Supervisors, it was a clear-cut issue of racism: last March a Domino's Pizza and a Mr. Pizza Man refused to deliver to her grandson William Fobbs at his home in a...