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Codman Square group remains fed up with fast food

By adamg on Thu, 03/21/2024 - 9:19am

The Dorchester Reporter reports the Codman Square Neighborhood Council voted to oppose plans to turn the Oriental House Chinese place into a Boston Fried Chicken place in part because the square already has enough fast food, in the form of a McDonald's and a KFC. The group had earlier worked to keep a Popeyes out. The proposed operator objected to being thrown in with the Popeyes, though, because he planned to also offer "gyros, hamburgers, and salads."

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Codman Square
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Comments

By John Costello on Thu, 03/21/2024 - 11:20am.

If the CSNC put their money where their mouths were or at least what should go in people's tummies, they should underwrite a Clover for the square.

If you want people not to eat something, offer up something different, yet take the risk instead of just spouting on about how bad some other food is for people.

I happen to like gyros and hamburgers. So do a lot of other people. Let them eat what they want.

I can assure you as a person who grew up near there, a throw pillow store isn't filling the space anytime soon.

By SharpWave on Thu, 03/21/2024 - 11:54am.

Than complaining about new competition instead of trying to succeed by offering a better value. People get too used to feeling like they have a right to their territory.

By deselby on Thu, 03/21/2024 - 3:06pm.

Smells of gentrifiers controlling what the lower classes eat.

By SwirlyGrrl on Thu, 03/21/2024 - 7:28pm.

This is old school residents trying to prevent a food swamp, but whatever.

By ScottB on Thu, 03/21/2024 - 3:40pm.

That's what the CSNC President's statement about "the owner not being invested in enhancing the storefront or investing in the community" is all about. Pay off the neighborhood council (or the right people on it) and fried chicken will be okey dokey.

No doubt this guy snatched the location out from under Sweetgreen or Dig Inn with a much higher bid for the business.

If there isn't enough demand for what the owner wants to sell, let the market take care of that.

By anon on Thu, 03/21/2024 - 3:40pm.

Why a BFC why another America’s Food Basket people in lower income neighborhoods don’t always eat unhealthy you all shove the unhealthiest options down peoples throats and have to drive to other parts for a decent meal. If they didn’t want Popeyes why would they want a BFC.

By Waquiot on Thu, 03/21/2024 - 5:26pm.

How would Boston Fried Chicken be any worse than the Oriental House?