boloco retweeted
Warning to everybody attending the @PeteFrates3 book launch party tonight. I smell like boloco and ran out of shirts. #nodaysoff
It’s been a hell of a ride.
After 29 years, Boloco’s last location - 50 Congress St, Boston - closes for good on September 25. (Building has been sold, converting to residential 😔)
10,746 days down, 60 days to go.
Every day until then - open or closed - you can expect any number of not-so-clever reasons to come back one more time… a story you can’t make up, an old favorite makes a final appearance, free burrito day, and special requests 🤚
Day 60 (Tuesday 7/28) is just because. Come say hi 👋 🌯
boloco retweeted
No he didn’t, Libby. His written remarks referred to Greenland as a “piece of ice” because that’s what it is.
You’re the only one mixing anything up here.
During his @wef remarks, President Trump appeared to mix up Greenland and Iceland around three times.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
During the course of President Trump's speech at Davos26 on several occasions he said "Iceland" when it would be factually incorrect and make no sense whereas saying "Greenland" would have made sense and been factually correct.
youtube.com/watch?v=aj387T…
We don't say much these days, but marking 20 years since @stoolpresidente said:
"the bottom-line is that if you lined up all the fast food joints in America next to each other I'd choose The Wrap (now called Boloco) every time."
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Followed by:
"Also I love the fact that the employees know what their doing at The Wrap. Any high school drop out can flip burgers but it takes a special type of minimum wage employee to make a wrap."
The key here is we never, ever paid #minimumwage.
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boloco retweeted
POD by @savor_fm "Behind the Counter: Technology's Role in Restaurant Worker Success" w @JohnSPepper @boloco (that's me!)
youtu.be/SGklRURJGq0?si=LvwC… via @YouTube
boloco retweeted
It's Yes on 5, y'all.
The full minimum wage + tips. Here's a list of resources to get you there. 🧵
boloco retweeted
Councilor, with all due respect, this is a bad call. In 10 years we will look back at this and know that Yes on 5 was the only right answer. Great servers and restaurants will continue to do great. They know this. Poorly run restaurants may fail and will anyway. Do the right thing for all workers and the industry and let’s get this passed. Restaurants have 5 years to adjust to the proposed wages plus tips. They do many harder things than this. YES on 5 🙏
Join me in standing with bartenders and servers, please vote NO on Question 5! 🍻
ALT Statement in Opposition to Question 5 Restaurants are the backbone of our city's economy and the gathering places that give our neighborhoods their unique character. As the City Councilor for District 8—which covers important business districts and streets including Newbury St, Boylston St, Charles St, Causeway St, Lansdowne St, restaurant row in Fenway, Brigham Circle, Kenmore Sq, and countless small businesses—it's my duty to elevate the voices of restaurant workers. They've shared their concerns about how this initiative could jeopardize their livelihoods. I stand in solidarity with bartenders and servers in opposing Question 5. Although I advocate for a living wage for all workers, this ballot measure doesn't align with the needs or nuance of the restaurant industry. The details matter. I urge my constituents to vote NO on Question 5.
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When you order food delivery, you high option do you prefer? (3rd party = Door Dash, etc)
Why do you feel that way?
25%3rd party delivery srvcs
75%Direct from restaurant
0%No preference
4 votes • Final results
Nothing to do with Bidenomics or Trumponomics… just plain ol’ economics. Everything to do with Work from Home habits, strong/impressive competition, and high Boston rents that precede Covid. We stopped renewing leases in 8/2020. Would not have mattered who was prez… ✌️🙌🏼
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boloco retweeted
Americans with net worth in the top 2% would feel like they had been stricken with abject poverty if they walked in the shoes of too many millions of hard-working, underpaid, hourly workers. They would literally consider jumping out of windows as people did as the Great Depression settled in.
And yet this is normal life for most people in this country. #fightfor15 was a good start - despite the fact that national minimum wage is still pegged at $7.25 since 2009. But years ago I grabbed the domain fightfor20.com because I knew that $20 was the more appropriate minimum hourly wage. You think $20/hour sounds high? Go visit friends who make that wage and take a close look at their lives. (Wait, you don't have any close friends who make that? You're not alone)
Yes, it's harder to make a profit in many businesses when you pay higher wages.
Yes, in some cases it might lead businesses to fail.
But you are fooling yourself - and the countless people who send accolades your way - if you think you run a successful business when your front-line people aren't successful themselves.
I'm renewing my #fightfor20 domain if for no other reason than a reminder that we have work to do.
boloco retweeted
You know you’re fu@ked when you are listening to @hubermanlab and @davidgoggins and you can’t help but stop at the McDonald’s drive-through in the middle of the podcast for my “last” sausage McMuffin with egg and hashbrowns. 😭 open.spotify.com/episode/7KU…
the day when @stoolpresidente crowned The Wrap king of fast food. The secret was those “special type of #minimumwage employees” weren’t being paid min wage… though they were and still are special. Some are still working at Boloco 18+ years later 🌯 …Come visit us Newman 👊
That’s a wrap… 14 years and 351 days at the #bostoncommon. Will miss all of you, especially @EmersonCollege and your creative, vibrant spirit. Always grateful 🙏
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