Newbury Street to get a food trolley by the Green Line
By adamg - 3/12/12 - 9:31 am
Rendering via MBTA.
Clover, best known for its vegetarian food trucks, will be setting up shop this spring in an MBTA-owned spot on Newbury Street near Mass. Ave., around the corner from the entrance to Hynes station.
The T says Clover will pay $1,000 a month - and utilities - for the right to occupy the space for one year.
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Great news
I look forward to this place opening. Do you know when?
anybody check this with skull and crossbones/suburb girl?
i think ive seen her working this corner. wouldnt want to do anything to upset her.
Loser Island!
Where will the losers sell their CD's and bad art?
Sounds like a bargain.
I was recently in Austin, where it was rumored that downtown parking spaces for food trucks (often several to a lot) were renting for about $3000/month.
But this is still a step in the right direction. Wonder if the City or the beloved local Neighborhood Assoc'n will try to find a reason to stop this.
$1000 a month seems cheap.
$1000 a month seems cheap.
It does seem like a bargain,
It does seem like a bargain, but I think that's OK for a while. The food truck will be a huge improvement to that waste of space and they are providing an amenity by opening a spot there. Why not give them a break for a couple of years and then see where it goes?
My response to the BBNA would be:
If you don't want this $1,000 a month rental tenant on MBTA property in your neighborhood, then you scrape together the $1,000 yourselves or STFU.
I wonder how food trucks
I wonder how food trucks manage the ADA question ... even more so, a food truck that isn't really mobile. That's where the city/access board might have something to say.
(Then again, I wouldn't be surprised if there's some exemption or grandfather clause built in for MBTA vendors ...)
Why wouldn't a food truck be more accessible?
...than most restaurants? They're right on the sidewalk.
Seen it in action at South Station
Clover already has a live human outside the truck taking orders at the sidewalk level.
The other trucks will send somebody out to assist chair users and others (children, chair users, little people) who don't reach the window.
Exactly...
...they just walk out and assist folks. Sometimes they walk through the line of people waiting to order and take orders that way too.
Sounds like separate but
Sounds like separate but equal to me.
Kind of like gas pumps
There aren't special gas pumps for the handicapped at self-serve stations. Stations just offer to pump the gas for handicapped drivers at self-serve rates. Sorta the same thing. Bottom line: They can get served like everybody else with no extra effort involved.
LOL...
Um...it's a FOOD TRUCK. There's no sit-down space for anyone--where is the "separate" you're imagining?
What part of ....
"Clover already has a person outside the truck taking orders on the sidewalk" did you not get? Oh, but having that same person hand you your food instead of getting it off the ledge is somehow bad???
Many of the staff in the other trucks can hear somebody who is seated call up their order - the order windows aren't all that high in most of them.
Some that I've seen in other cities have a low-height intercom for accessibility.
I suppose that it is separate but not equal to have someone bring out your food for you?
Better use of space
That space has long been an eyesore. This will be a better use of it than the losers, hipster posers and teens-pretending-they-are street-people that currently frequent the area.
losers, hipster posers and panhandling teens
Have some respect for local traditions, why don't ya?
NABB
Are they going to file a complaint, as the losers, posers, and panhandlers have been there for more than 20 years?
Or will the Losers, Posers and Panhandlers be joining the Lovers, Muggers, and Theives Local 86 to protest?
Never thought of the kids
Never thought of the kids that hang out there as losers. They're just kids who probably don't have any money hanging out. Big deal. I hung out in Copley Sq. when I was 16 and had no cash. These losers as you call them don't bother unlike the panhandlers who get pissed if you don't shake their hand and give them money or the doubled-up clipboard people. Looking forward to check out Clover. Good use of the space.
I think you mean...
Lovers, muggers, and thieves.
Edit: Doh, that'll teach me to reply before reading all the responses...beaten to the punch by Swirly.
But
But where will the Berklee graduates panhandle now?
Why is UH giving Clover more publicity?
Next thing you know, they're going to send Adam a photo of a UHub print-out in a trash can!
Hey, the Dig is thataway -->
It wasn't so much to sing the praises of Clover as it was to report on some news related to that weird little bit of Newbury Street. If it had been some other foodtruck, I would've written up the same basic story.
Perhaps I was misunderstood...
...my comment wasn't so much about ragging on UHub for objectively mentioning Clover, but rather was ragging on the ragefit Clover's owner previously had for being mentioned by the press.
;)