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Clover Food Lab

By adamg - 11/6/23 - 4:32 pm

WBUR reports Clover Food Lab filed for Chap. 11 bankruptcy in Delaware federal court on Friday, citing "low sales, high rent and lack of funding."

By adamg - 8/24/23 - 2:09 pm

The Clover Food Lab outlet at 565 Boylston St. closed today, victim, the owner says, of a combination of long Covid-19 effects and a landlord who wouldn't negotiate a rent reduction.

CloverBBY took over the space of the failed Minigrow in December, 2019 - just in time to get whacked by the pandemic. Owner Ayr Muir writes today: Read more.

By adamg - 7/31/17 - 11:51 am

Clover Food Lab founder and CEO Ayr Muir writes he's permanently garaging his pioneering fleet of Clover food trucks, with the Dewey Square one scheduled to go out with a party on Friday. Read more.

By adamg - 11/19/15 - 10:05 am

Clover has started converting the School Street burrito place into its latest eatery - and owner Ayr Muir says he's planning three other outlets in the city of Boston, to go along with its food trucks and restaurants in Cambridge. Read more.

By adamg - 10/29/15 - 2:16 pm

Ayr Muir, founder of Clover Food Lab, says it's been bothering him that some of his full-time workers don't make enough to live on in Boston. So he writes today he's going to experiment with gradual price increases over the next couple of years to get all of his workers up to at least $20 an hour.

I think we can't build a long-term sustainable food system without changing our labor practices. I think we can do this, but I need your help. We ask a lot of our customers, we want to know what we can do better, we want to know what you think of new menu items. We even ask you for recipes and ideas for the next sandwich. We ask you to tell everybody you know about Clover. Now I want to ask you to help us pay more. ...

By adamg - 5/26/15 - 8:00 am

Cambridge Day talks to Clover CEO Ayr Muir about the experiences of running a 24-hour restaurant in Central Square (all good, he says) and reveals that, in addition to the Newbury Street cafe now under construction, Clover is also scouting locations in Copley Square.

By adamg - 4/22/14 - 10:43 pm

Cambridge Day reports Clover Food Lab will be moving into the space from which Hi-Fi Pizza was booted - and that if it had its druthers, it would stay open 24 hours.

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