Can a town have too many tacos?

Apparently so. Wicked Local Brookline reports Qdoba has shut its Coolidge Corner outlet.

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Submitted by adamg on Fri, 08/14/2009 - 9:18am.

With plenty of other local

With plenty of other local (and better) options, can't say I'm surprised.

Viva Boloco! (Or just about any taqueria in east boston)

anon (not verified) | Fri, 08/14/2009 - 9:27am

Death

That must be the most cursed location in the city; nothing lasts there!!

JohnAKeith | Fri, 08/14/2009 - 10:11am

Yeah

I have never understood that about a location which can't sustain a business...just to have the exact same type of business move in.

It's like, "look, I know you think you've got the edge on your competitor that JUST ate it right here, but you don't. You're the same crap, different name. Unless you're salting your food with cocaine, you're going to fail just like every other burrito/sub/sandwich joint that has met its demise here for the past 10 years or more."

You see this kind of thinking happen in a lot of places in the city. You'd think the realtor/owner at some point would say "look, you're really enthusiastic to open here, I know that, and I'm gonna make a huge profit by having you here for the next year or two, but I just can't bring myself to let you have this space. It will eat you alive."

Kaz | Fri, 08/14/2009 - 10:16am

There's a haunted location on Rte. 9 in Framingham

Where every single restaurant that opens there fails - only to be replaced by another restaurant. No idea what's there now, but at one time it was Samba, which I think was a Japanese steakhouse.

adamg | Fri, 08/14/2009 - 10:23am

and another on Elm Street in Somerville

which has been Carberry's, then O'Natural's, then Boloco (the only one I know of that has ever closed), then Green Tomato II, and now vacant. I actually thought Carberry's was pretty successful and I don't know why they sold it to O'Natural's; I wish they'd take this location back.

Ron Newman | Fri, 08/14/2009 - 10:29am

That really is the Location of Death

With the exception of the Green Tomato II (the food there really wasn't all that great) I can't understand why that location constantly fails. It can't be that far out of the Square proper; people walk to Subway or the place that used to be Fusion Express, don't they? What's a few extra steps when you're already that far?

Boloco was great there. They were very friendly with community groups, letting them use that big space off to the side. The Post-Meridian Radio Players often held production meetings there for at least two of the Tomes of Terror shows, and I miss discussing sound effects creation over a peanut butter/banana smoothie and a snack-sized burrito.

Has someone ever checked to see if Babe Ruth's piano was buried underneath or something?

Spatch | Fri, 08/14/2009 - 4:21pm

I have never understood that about a location which can't sustain a business...just to have the exact same type of business move in.

It's the restaurant business - it attracts people with no business sense.

NotWhitey | Fri, 08/14/2009 - 1:25pm