For the second time, a Subway franchisee named Akki Patel went before the Mill Valley city council on Monday to try to get them to approve his permit to open a sandwich shop there. Local journalist Joyce Kleiner has been crowing about the controversy for months now, calling the town a "shrine to gentility" and telling the Chron's Leah Garchik, "I'm so embarrassed to be from Mill Valley sometimes." But it's not just the town's snobbery about tacky chain operations that embarrasses her. Get this: At the meeting on Monday, after Patel, who owns 28 Subways, stood up to plead his case and the floor was opened for public comment, someone stood up and said, "Why don't you open an Indian restaurant? I love Indian food!" Really, Mill Valley? [Garchik/Chron, Earlier]
