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Harvest is a Harvard Square restaurant originally owned in 1975 by Benjamin Thompson (architect) (he designed it as well) and his wife Jane. They closed in 1997 because of “growing competition and poor management” but reopened under new management [1] (past managers R. Patrick Bowe and Jayne Bowe) [2] and renovations by Elkus Manfredi. [1]
Rialto was a restaurant in Harvard Square’s Charles Hotel owned by Jody Adams and Michela Larson. [2] Opened in 1994, it closed on June 22, 2016. [3] Originally, it was announced she would leave the restaurant in the hands of executive chef David Ladner, but it was later announced it would close down.
After opening a spacious Harvard Square location in 2016, Or began ramping up expansion in the Boston area. [10] Tatte expanded into downtown Boston in 2019 with its Summer Street location, followed by a location at One Boston Place. [11] Ron Shaich, who then became CEO of Panera Bread, purchased over 50% ownership of Tatte in 2016. [12]
Yelp has also been criticized for not disclosing how the filter works, [136] which it says would reveal information on how to defeat it. [16] Yelp also conducts "sting operations" to uncover businesses writing their own reviews. [138] In October 2012, Yelp placed a 90-day "consumer alert" on 150 business listings believed to have paid for reviews.
Waldorf Lunch, Harvard Square, 1918 Interior, Harvard Square, 1913 tile The Harvard Square location opened in 1913 and closed in 1938, when it became a Hayes-Bickford cafeteria. In 2017, when the space was being renovated to become a branch of the local Clover Food Lab chain, the original Waldorf decor, with college pennants in tile, was exposed.
The restaurant is perhaps most famous for the lawsuit Larkin v. Grendel's Den, Inc. , 459 U.S. 116 (1982), [ 1 ] which reached the Supreme Court of the United States in 1982. The suit challenged the Massachusetts state blue law (16C) allowing a school or a religious institution within 500 feet of a liquor license applicant to prevent the issuance.
The first international restaurant was opened in May 2020 in Shanghai. Locations in Australia started operation in early 2021. [5] 2021 was also when a Boiling Crab in Washington, D.C., opened, in July of that year. [6] [7] Meanwhile, a Harvard Square location in Cambridge, Massachusetts, began business in early 2022. [8]
In 2021, the company was acquired by Sweetgreen, a chain of salad restaurants. [17] [18] Both Spyce restaurants were closed following the Sweetgreen acquisition, "to focus on developing technology for Sweetgreen restaurants". The downtown Boston location closed October 22, 2021, [1] and the Harvard Square location closed February 18, 2022. [2]