Boston Restaurant Talk reports Boloco is closing its outlet on Boylston Street near Berklee College at the end of the day and that it plans to close its other Boylston Street location and one on Congress Street downtown by the end of the year.
By adamg - Fri, 08/25/2023 - 11:19am
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By adamg - Thu, 03/26/2020 - 10:19am
John Pepper, owner of the Boloco chain, has put up a GoFundMe page for people who'd like to donate to the care and feeding - especially the feeding - of people on the front line in the fight against Covid-19. The money will go to send meals to workers at hospitals in Boston (and Hanover, NH, where the chain has an outlet).
By adamg - Sat, 10/19/2019 - 10:36pm
Ron Newman spotted this sign at the Boylston Street Boloco today. Read more.
By adamg - Thu, 11/15/2018 - 10:52am
When news broke last week that Chick-fil-A had an agreement to move into the Boylston Street location now occupied by a Boloco, it was news not just to fans and haters of the chicken chain, but to Boloco.
By Ron Newman - Mon, 10/17/2016 - 12:10pm
The Swellesley Report tells us that Boloco will close its Wellesley and Natick locations this Wednesday, October 19, turning the locations over to b.good. Boloco CEO John Pepper wrote a long letter to his MetroWest customers.
Boloco is also closing its Northeastern University location on Huntington Avenue, as well as its stores in Burlington, VT and Concord, NH. These also will become b.good.
(hat tip to Boston Reddit for bringing all of this information together)
By adamg - Thu, 04/28/2016 - 4:54pm
The Boloco outlet at 1940 Beacon St. sent mail to customers today that today's its last day ever, more than 18 years after it opened and despite the continued patronage of singer James Taylor and the sale of an estimated 2 million burritos: Read more.
By adamg - Fri, 10/30/2015 - 10:32pm
John Pepper, who started Boloco, then left, then returned, explains how he wound up back at Boloco, what's been going on at the chain, why he had to close the School Street and Newbury Street outlets. And he gives a taste of what he's planning.
By adamg - Fri, 10/12/2012 - 7:35pm
For years, our own Boloco has sold a Nutella milkshake. Soon, no more.
By adamg - Wed, 12/07/2011 - 1:55pm
Grub Street fills us in on the latest from Boloco.
H/t Kevin Wang.
By adamg - Wed, 09/14/2011 - 8:33am
The Medford Green Line Neighborhood Alliance posts e-mail from Boloco honcho John Pepper about the Boston Avenue Boloco:
By adamg - Fri, 04/22/2011 - 5:44pm
It began, John Pepper says, with a phone call Wednesday from City Hall: Could one of his Boloco restaurants supply burritos for a major announcement the mayor wold be making in front of City Hall on Thursday?
By adamg - Thu, 04/21/2011 - 11:32pm
John Pepper, founder of the Boloco chain, is ripping into the city on Twitter tonight for what happened with the burritos
By adamg - Thu, 03/11/2010 - 9:42am
Although first it would have to find a suitable location, Third Decade reports.
By adamg - Wed, 03/10/2010 - 6:34pm
Megan Johnson, who admits to stealing toilet papers from public loos in her current unemployment, still tried to help out the panhandler who asked her for change at Boylston and Charles today.
By adamg - Fri, 07/24/2009 - 7:22am
Boloco CEO John Pepper tweets:
Just in - our landlord wants to raise Newbury St rent 25% to $122/sq ft. Speechless. Who will break the news to him that 2007 is gone?
By adamg - Fri, 01/11/2008 - 6:33pm
It's that simple, really; Boloco owner John Pepper explains the situation and answers every last person on Davis Square LiveJournal who posted why they never eat there.
