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 "id": "mom-and-pop",
 "type": "term",
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  "name": "Mom-and-pop",
  "aliases": [
   "independent",
   "family shop"
  ],
  "said": "Two people and a lease. The rest is detail."
 },
 "region": [
  "us"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "letter": "M",
  "part_of_speech": "noun"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "A shop owned and worked by the family that runs it, as against a franchise or a company-owned store.",
  "story": "The line is blurrier than the phrase suggests. A shop can buy its mix from a national flour company, carry a franchised name on the window, and still be owned outright by the family inside it — every Daylight Donuts store is independently owned and operated, and there are roughly 950 of them. A Spudnut sign may outlive the franchise that sold it. And a single family may hold three shops and run them all itself.\n\nThis project counts a shop as independent when no company owns it; the sign on the window is not the test."
 },
 "kin": [
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   "to": "tulsa-mix-shop",
   "as": "The shops that complicate it.",
   "rel": "style"
  },
  {
   "to": "what-is-a-mom-and-pop",
   "as": "Where this project draws the line.",
   "rel": "story"
  },
  {
   "to": "daylight-donuts",
   "as": "950 signs, 950 owners.",
   "rel": "org"
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  "s:wp-spudnut-shops"
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    "tier": "inference",
    "note": "the last paragraph states this project's own rule, not a trade definition"
   }
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 "confidence": "high",
 "updated": "2026-09-16",
 "etymology": {
  "root": "American English for a business run by a married couple or a family",
  "first_attested": "",
  "note": "Used here for a shop no company owns, whatever name is on the window.",
  "tier": "tradition",
  "source": "s:this-project"
 },
 "blurb": "A shop owned and worked by the family that runs it, as against a franchise or a company-owned store.",
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   "key": "us",
   "name": "The United States",
   "state": null,
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  }
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  {
   "to": "tulsa-mix-shop",
   "type": "style",
   "name": "The mix-and-sign shop",
   "as": "The shops that complicate it.",
   "rel": "style"
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  {
   "to": "what-is-a-mom-and-pop",
   "type": "story",
   "name": "What counts as a mom-and-pop",
   "as": "Where this project draws the line.",
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  },
  {
   "to": "daylight-donuts",
   "type": "org",
   "name": "Daylight Donuts",
   "as": "950 signs, 950 owners.",
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  }
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   "id": "s:wp-daylight-donuts",
   "kind": "web",
   "title": "Daylight Donuts — Wikipedia",
   "publisher": "Wikipedia",
   "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_Donuts",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16",
   "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0"
  },
  {
   "id": "s:wp-spudnut-shops",
   "kind": "web",
   "title": "Spudnut Shops — Wikipedia",
   "publisher": "Wikipedia",
   "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spudnut_Shops",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16",
   "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0"
  }
 ],
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   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:wp-daylight-donuts"
  },
  "text.story": {
   "tier": "inference",
   "note": "the last paragraph states this project's own rule, not a trade definition"
  },
  "etymology": {
   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:wp-daylight-donuts"
  }
 },
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   "from": "daylight-donuts",
   "type": "org",
   "name": "Daylight Donuts",
   "as": "Why the sign is not the test.",
   "rel": "term"
  },
  {
   "from": "the-sign-outlives-the-owner",
   "type": "story",
   "name": "The sign outlives the owner",
   "as": "Why the sign is not the test.",
   "rel": "term"
  },
  {
   "from": "what-is-a-mom-and-pop",
   "type": "story",
   "name": "What counts as a mom-and-pop",
   "as": "The term.",
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}