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Sara Foster

Sara Foster opened a Chapel Hill branch of her Durham restaurant, Foster's Market, at 750 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in 1998. Its manager Sera Cuni bought the Chapel Hill market with Susan White in January 2013, and it became The Root Cellar.

Source: The Root Cellar Cafe & Catering: Old Friend, New Name

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  1. Sara Foster opens a Chapel Hill branch of Foster's Market Sara Foster opened a second Foster's Market at 750 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Chapel Hill as an expansion of her Durham restaurant.Search the index · The Root Cellar Cafe & Catering: Old Friend, New Name
  2. Foster's Market in Chapel Hill passes to Sera Cuni and Susan White Sera Cuni, who had managed Foster's Market in Chapel Hill since 2008, bought the market with her partner Susan White and later renamed it The Root Cellar.Search the index · The Root Cellar Cafe & Catering: Old Friend, New Name

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