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    Say what you're after, tell the toucan where you are, and watch the big brands go poof. What's left is your neighborhood's mom and pops.

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    The trick, revealed

    A magician shouldn't tell, but we will. We search Google Maps for what you picked, then take out every name on our list of known chains, plus any name that shows up twice in the same search. There's no certified list of small businesses out there, so this is "independent as far as we can tell": a local franchise can sneak through, and now and then a real mom and pop might vanish by mistake. That's why every result has a button to tell us. We don't save your searches or your location.