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TIL that in 2006 a Panera that had a clause in their lease with White City Shopping Center in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts that prevented other sandwich shops from opening in said shopping center tried to sue in order to prevent a Qdoba Mexican Grill from opening in the same shopping center.

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