something Davis Sq probably doesn't need

[ron_newman]

Someone wants to open a Quizno's sub shop franchise at 401 Highland Avenue, where Disc Diggers used to be. The proposal keeps getting postponed from one Planning Board meeting to the next; it supposedly comes up again at this Thursday night's meeting.

While I can't see a real basis for showing up to oppose it, I also don't see it filling any real need, given that you can already get sandwiches of various kinds at Au Bon Pain, Blue Shirt, Mike's, Diesel, Christo's Seven Star, Subway, O'Natural's, and probably other places I've forgotten about.

Comments

[ron_newman]

I never see anyone in McDonald's, yet it somehow stays in business. It's often empty while Anna's across the street is jammed.

I would not like to see a wholesale invasion of chain franchises into Davis Square.

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

I've often wondered how that McD's stays open if it never has any customers. Do they perhaps do a takeout business at lunchtime, serving people who work at businesses in the area and are looking for something to eat at their desks?

The Porter Sq. McD's closed, which kinda surprised me because that one *does* get customers.

Porter Square

[ron_newman]

A while ago, I recall reading that the Porter Square Shopping Center management was non-renewing leases of franchises that it no longer wanted to have around. So Dress Barn was replaced by Porter Square Books; Parade of Shoes by Radio Shack; McDonald's by Qdoba.

Re: Porter Square

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

McDonald's owns Qdoba, anyway.

Re: Porter Square

[slinkr.livejournal.com]

Jack in the Box owns Qdoba. McDonalds owns a Mexican chain called Chipotle.

Re: Porter Square

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

oh, snap, you're right.

Re: Porter Square

[ron_newman]

McDonald's doesn't own Qdoba. McDonald's owns a different Mexican chain, Chipotle, which hasn't yet shown up around here.

I just looked on Qdoba's web site and am surprised to find that Qdoba has been owned by Jack-in-the-Box since 2003.

[dominika-kretek.livejournal.com]

Sauce definitely doesn't fill a need, and somehow it stays in business.

Chain stores are mostly the sign of a lack of imagination. Whether it's the the entrepreneurs who lack imagination or the public is always a question.