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

[turil.livejournal.com]

But wouldn't you rather have some really fun and interesting place that also has "toasted goodness" and that also brings in money to the local economy rather than sending it off to some corporate headquarters in who knows where, to be pocketed by some billionaire who spends it on liposuction for his cat?

Oooh, how about a place like the Friendly Toast in Portsmouth, NH? It's an awesome retro diner that serves really inexpensive old style diner food as well as old-style diner food done with a more modern sensibility (mohita smoothies, scrambled tofu, sweet potato fried covered in tabasco sauce and brown sugar). Something like that would be sweet.

[sonofabish.livejournal.com]

Hey, that would be great if one of them would come in. But they haven't, so why not a Quiznos?

It's interesting the various exchanges here, with a lot of anti-corporate sentiment. I'm not a big fan of huge corporations either, but don't dismiss all of them as fronts for tasteless dreck. Quiznos happens to make a damn good sub and I think it would do a bang-up business and draw people in and people should be looking at ways of tapping into the customers that will be brought into the area.