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Keep coming back - by Rosie Spinks

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A formula for getting more people in your life

I recently spent two weeks in southern California, where I grew up, and found myself at Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf most mornings during the first half of our trip. CBTL, as my sister and I call it, is a southern California-based chain that we loved as kids for their Ice Blendeds and have continued loving as adults out of some kind of nostalgia. But this time, it felt different. Whatever conglomerate now owns Coffee Bean seems to have stripped it of all the funky, faded charm it once had. Beyond serving weak coffee, the tables and chairs feel uncommonly hard and cold. The lighting is way too…

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