I've noticed that a dining room is one of the areas requiring AFCI protection. Since the receptacles in the dining room are required to be on a small appliance branch circuit, these receptacles will need to be on a 20 amp AFCI protected circuit.

Looks to me, if someone wants to go really cheap, they could install an AFCI small appliance circuit for the dining receptacles and a non-AFCI circuit for the kitchen, pantry, etc.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.