If Alice had walked into Starbuck's one day and passed through their looking glass, she might have ended up at Daily Bread in Richmond. Everyone seems to know each other.
Nothing looks mass produced.
And you're not likely to find Daily Bread's prosage pizza or crunchy granola brand of homey atmosphere anywhere near Starbuck's. With their twentieth birthday party coming up this spring, plans are to expand the current dining room into the rest of the building's first floor. People will have to come in the front door now. People have been coming in the back door more than willingly since 1979. Daily Bread has proven itself a local institution - certainly for its product, but also as its own kind of community based organization and gathering place.