Boloco for sale?

[ron_newman]

Every so often, I do a Google Blog Search for "Davis Square". When I did so today, I found:

Quick casual café concept in Somerville MA

8 Jan 2008 Located in popular Davis Square, this is a high profile location with excellent visibility and parking and in close proximity to Harvard Square, Inman Square and Porter Square. The site is within... BizQuest.com: Massachusetts Businesses for Sale - http://massachusetts.bizquest.com/page1.html

The listing page itself carries no date, but I'm going to believe Google's "8 Jan 2008", especially since the listing currently appears on page 1 of massachusetts.bizquest.com, making it a very recent listing. It says they are selling the business for $250,000, after having sunk over $600,000 into renovations.

This sure looks like Boloco to me. Anyone know more?

Comments

[nathanjw]

Out of curiosity, what's non-vegan about the tortillas, vegetarian rice, roasted veggies, beans (okay, the refried beans are suspicious), salsa, or guacamole?

[laklare.livejournal.com]

Granted I've never actually eaten there, but that's because they told me they cook their rice with chicken stock and their beans had lard, but that was a few years ago. Maybe they have alternatives now?

I'm not trying to put them down. Most real mexican restaurants are like this, but for me I'm better off with Boloco's bangkok tofu wrap or something similar. But I'm in the minority.

BTW, I almost never go to Boloco because their real problem (as people have said) is that they're in a bad location.

[nathanjw]

Anna's default rice is cooked with chicken stock, but a couple of years ago they started carrying vegetarian rice as an option and putting up signs saying so. I don't know about the lard state of the beans, but only the refried beans would really make me worry on that front; the black and pinto beans are simple enough that I'm not sure where fat would be used in their preperation (and I have plenty of vegetarian friends who either knew about or were dismayed by the rice thing that I suspect I would have heard if there was a similar issue with the beans).