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Coronavirus ends South Boston restaurant

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By adamg on Wed, 06/17/2020 - 10:27am

Boston Restaurant Talk reports the demise of Backyard Betty's on West Broadway.

Neighborhoods: 
South Boston
Topics: 
Dining
Free tagging: 
Broadway
barbecue


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Comments

By StillFromDorchester on Wed, 06/17/2020 - 10:39am.

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That is awful.

By plt3012 on Wed, 06/17/2020 - 11:12am.

The place was struggling before COVID 19 came along. It never seemed to catch on.

By Old Groucho on Wed, 06/17/2020 - 12:58pm.

I don't think it was the COVID.

By Marco on Wed, 06/17/2020 - 1:20pm.

that when things get "back to normal" that liquor licences will be easy to come by with all these places closing and we might get some actual bars/ sit down restaurants in the outer neighborhoods, but I know better.
Who's buying up these licences? Hotel chains? Office buildings in the seaport under construction? You know SOMEONE is getting them....

By adamg on Wed, 06/17/2020 - 1:48pm.

You can't just buy a liquor license without the approval of the licensing board, and they're just not having lots of hearings on this (I think the last one, a couple weeks ago, wasn't even really a sale, it was more a North End restaurant owner transferring a license from one of his restaurants to another restaurant he also owns).

By anon on Wed, 06/17/2020 - 8:51pm.

This restaurant was hurting long before Coranavirus. Businesses are quick to blame their mismanagement, terrible overpriced food and their idiotic patrons on the virus.

By D on Thu, 06/18/2020 - 10:51am.

Sad to see anyone close. Truth be told, this place was one of the rudest places I have ever set foot in. Hoping whoever goes in next cares a little more about hospitality.