GENE RANDALL, CNN ANCHOR: There is trouble brewing in Concord, California over competing coffee vendors. Alison Becerra (ph) from CNN affiliate KTVU reports on the legal grounds behind the battle.</s>ALISON BECERRA, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): There's more brewing here than coffee: the battle between corporate java giant Starbucks and a small coffee shop known as the Renaissance Cafe. It's the kind of battle happening in neighborhoods all over the country. For three years, this quaint little shop has been the only kid on the block here in the Vineyard Shopping Center on Clayton Road to sell the coveted coffee bean until now: at issue a plan to open a Starbucks coffee bar next door inside a new Albertson's market set to open next week.</s>HANNA SKLENAR, RENAISSANCE CAFE OWNER: And then I found out that Starbucks is going to be here in</s>BECERRA: So Renaissance Cafe Hanna Sklenar decided to fight it and filed a lawsuit.</s>WILLIAM MARKLEY, SKLENAR'S ATTORNEY: The key provision that's causing all this litigation is this item D right here. The landlord agrees not to lease space within the shopping center to another tenant whose primary business is the sales of coffee beverages and coffee beans.</s>BECERRA: The landlord in this case is American Stores Property Incorporated, which owns Albertson's. Albertson's said it would not have a comment today because of the pending lawsuit, and Starbucks says it doesn't discuss litigation with the public. But a spokesman did say that this is a part of a deal with Albertson to put Starbucks bars in 100 of their stores.</s>MARKLEY: And their argument is that the coffee is just a minor portion of the grocery store, that it's simply a grocery store that happens to be selling some coffee.</s>SKLENAR: Well,
Small Coffee Shop Taking on Starbucks