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Oak Square to get cereal-based desserts and sandwiches until 2 a.m.
By adamg on Thu, 01/16/2025 - 11:09am
The Boston Licensing Board today approved a 2 a.m. closing time for Day & Night Cereal Bar at 6 Tremont St. in Brighton, which will be changing its name to Sweet & Comfy and beefing up its current menu of cereal-drizzled desserts with sandwiches.
Owner Louis Elveus (right, with new logo) had originally requested a 3 a.m. closing time, but agreed to 2 a.m. after meeting with nearby residents who said 3 a.m. was just a step too far for the sleepy area. Elveus's block currently has a Chinese restaurant open until 1:30 a.m.
Elveus said he expected much of his business after 10 p.m. to come in the form of pickups by delivery drivers, in particular ones catering to the sweet-toothed hard-munching students of nearby Boston College.
The board asked Elveus to supply a written plan detailing how he will keep the Uber Eats and Door Dash drivers from double parking, saying that while the Boston Transportation Department has yet to focus on that as an issue in Oak Square in particular, they want to head off issues.
At a hearing yesterday, Elveus said Oak Square streets are pretty deserted in the early morning, but that in any case, the street is wide enough so that somebody could briefly double park, put their flashers on and rush in for an order without jamming up traffic.
Board members were not pleased with that answer. "You have to have a plan for these third-party pickups," board Chairwoman Kathleen Joyce said. "It's a pretty wide street but we don t want to encourage people to be putting their hazards on and running in. Just because it's being done [npw] doesn't mean we're going to permit going forward."
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"Board members were not pleased"
Well plenty of the currently licensed businesses on say, Harvard/Brighton Ave. area routinely have food delivery vehicles blocking the bike/bus/travel lanes.
There's no plan to address this for those businesses, its absolutely going to be permitted going forward because traffic enforcement is beneath BTD and BPD.
Yep, and it's because of issues on streets like that ...
That for more than a year now, the licensing board has been asking everybody coming in for a new food-serving license, or a major change to one to supply a written plan for how they plan to keep third-party deliverers picking stuff up from becoming neighborhood nuisances.
On Double Parking
Why should we expect small business owners to each have a separate parking plan to avoid double parking instead of having BTD design roads that properly accommodate users? The simple fix here is to have more paid parking (in 10-15 minute increments) and less free 2 hour parking. Less people will drive to Oak Square and prices can be set to ensure that there's always open spots. Would some Doordash drivers occupy a spot for 3 minutes without paying? Yes, but who cares about a few minutes. Cars parked for hours (and no enforcement) are what cause these drivers to double park in the first place.