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.

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[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

in order for it to fill a need, they need to supply something that nobody else does, or at least the perception they do.

i happen to think they do. they're a growing concern on the east coast, quite succesful on the west iirc. they have a good, tasty product set that isn't replicated by the other concerns.

more importantly, they have the craziest ads. "they got a pepper bar in there" :)

so, why oppose it? if they don't get in, someone else will, who can pay the rent - someone you might really oppose. perhaps another starbucks? perhaps a chik-filet? the christians would love that :) closed every sunday by god's law.

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[slinkr.livejournal.com]

That's it! A Starbucks! That side of the square really doesn't have a Starbucks of its own. If you're on Highland, you have to walk *blocks* to get to one.

[ron_newman]

This makes me less than enthusiastic about a Quizno's. Still, I can't really bring myself to go to City Hall and oppose it. That part of the square is pretty dead at night, and will be even more so if (as I've heard rumored) Out of the Blue restaurant relocates to the former Pluto store on Elm Street.

[dreamgirly19.livejournal.com]

Yea I moved here from CA and missed my daily sub. They def. dont make the same kind of subs other sub stores do imo.

[enochs-fable.livejournal.com]

so the mormons own chik-filet? big deal. tasty chicken.

chick-fil-a

[ron_newman]

Not Mormons, just fundamentalist Christians. Every Chick-fil-a is closed on Sundays, even in malls that otherwise require every store to be open on Sundays.

I don't think their stores exist in New England at all. But oddly, the Harvard Science Center cafeteria served their food when I was taking Extension School classes a couple of years ago. (Maybe they still do -- I'm not around there much anymore.)

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[bex77]

No more Chik-fil-a at Harvard's Science Center. They discontinued it a couple of years ago. The only one I've seen in this area is in the food court at the Burlington Mall.

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[enochs-fable.livejournal.com]

There's one in the Burlington Mall. I could have sworn I saw something saying they were owned by the Mormons.

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[on-reserve.livejournal.com]

Wow. How absolutely TERRIBLE for a business to have a mission statement/set of principles ans STICK TO THEM? I mean, just wow.

Can you imagine if a dyke-owned coffee shop committed to creating a great cup of hot beverage and welcoming environment opened? I mean, JUST IMAGINE IT!

I'm tired of superior-acting liberals bashing everything they don't agree with. It doesn't make you any better than Rush Limbaugh. So what they opened a business based on Christian principles ... open your own business based on your own principles. And then watch as someone else calls you a weirdo for sticking to them.

What about the Orthodox Jews that close down most of Coolidge Corner on Friday nights/Saturdays -- are they also weirdos?

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[tahnan.livejournal.com]

Hear, hear! Besides which, it's a great chicken sandwich.

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[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Did I somehow miss the part where someone said they were weirdos for closing on Sundays? Or bad in any way? All he did was correct the person who called them Mormons and note that they do indeed close on Sundays.

I see one possibly snarky comment above, but that wasn't even where the rant was directed.

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[tahnan.livejournal.com]

Mmmm. Fair enough. But the implication I saw behind ...a chik-filet? the christians would love that :) closed every sunday by god's law was that there was somehow something wrong with this. (Indeed, especially when prefaced by calling this "something you'd really oppose".)

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[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that was the possibly snarky comment I was referring to, to which the above rant was *not* directed. Sometimes knees jerk so hard, I'm surprised people don't break their noses. :)

Heck, I'd actively campaign to bring Country Life to Davis if I thought they'd actually come, and they're religious as all get out (Seventh Day Adventist). But who cares? The food was amazing and the only bad thing about the god part was that they were closed Friday night to Saturday. As far as I was concerned, they ought to have been open 24/7!

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[simply-juniper.livejournal.com]

Burlington Mall and one up in Burlington, VT I believe. I guess they only like cities named Burlington!

[sonofabish.livejournal.com]

I agree. Hell, when I was in Atlanta in '92 working on a presidential campaign, I bought one of those little pecan pies from one of the Farrakan brothers who was selling them and copies of their paper which was chock full of 'kill honky motherfucker' stories. Threw his racist ass for a loop to have a white boy buying one of his pies. Gotta say, it was a damn tasty bit of pie too and in a way it's a shame they're not up here in Boston. ;)

[on-reserve.livejournal.com]

I like Starbucks. I like their coffee better than anything else in the square. Go on, throw tomatoes at my head because I prefer a :::gasp::: non-local product. Of course, I prefer the tea drinks at Diesel. I think shutting down options for people based on morality doesn't make us much better than Republicans or Fundamentalists. It just means that we think we're right, and we might be but exerting one's right-ness by force? I don't like the tactic.

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

i like starbucks too. the style of roasted bean is a style dammit, and just because someone loathes it, it seems stylist to say they suck and are horrible - which is why i chose it - so many people go "ewww, starbucks" - it's nearly a visceral reaction - hopefully it makes someone think.

i also like dunkin donut's coffee too. i also like the way diesel draws a nice capucino. variety is good.

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