Franchising Killed the Mafia Star

15 minutes into tonight's Sopranos and we've got two not-so-subtle jabs at mass-franchisers.  First, a pair of thugs are styimed trying to shake down a Starbucksy type coffee shop for protection money, failing because the store's sophisticated accounting and inventory controls won't allow the manager to fudge the books.  Next, a live poultry store owned by Tony (and presumably used for various illegitimate purposes or rented above market to an unregistered, unsanitary, or otherwise unfit tenant) is targeted by Century 21 (and their proxy Nurse Hathway), with an eye on turning it into a Jamba Juice.

The thugs, on their way out of the Starbucksy coffee shop, lament, "It's over for the little guy."

Update 9:30:

Ah, the poultry shop is used as a gambling hall.  Hathaway reveals this to bust Tony while he's waxing old-fashioned, complaining about the "Old Navy and Bed Bath and Whatever" taking over all the small towns.