Episode Details

In this episode, writer Tanya Edwards tells us about the rise and fall of Boston Market (née Boston Chicken), which just closed its final Massachusetts location. From two young Northeastern grads with a rotisserie and a dream, to Carver Sandwiches, to private-equity mismanagement, this story has everything. Check out Tanya's feature on the death of this local institution in the Boston Globe.

Philadelphia man eats chicken on abandoned pier in front of raucous crowd. 

A Schwarbomb at Fenway. 

A key to Black Point Beach goes for $325,000.

Novo Mundo in New Bedford.

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