[Chat] New biz coming to CV

[Joshua Fruhlinger]

Quiznos isn't an Italian place, it's fast-food subs.  It's in the same market segment as Subway -- which has a shop a block away, so it is kind of curious that they'd set up here.  

I don't have a good sense of how big the space is, but it's small enough that I doubt a real bistro-sized restaurant could fit in there.  I also wonder whether there'd be a problem getting a liquor license in a block that already has at least two that I can think of off the top of my head (CVP and Donna's -- and does Ledo's have one too?).  Might be hard to convince an upscale place to open if they can't sell booze.

jf

On Oct 8, 2011, at 4:21 PM, Stephen J Gewirtz wrote:

> What puzzles me is why Quiznos would want to open next to another (and much better) Italian place.  The types of food are too similar.  It seems like a bad business decision.  And if, as has been my impression, Ledo controls the space, I cannot imagine why they would allow Quiznos there.
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> When Ledo first opened, there was talk of an Indian restaurant but no name for one.  That would have made much more sense.
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> Maybe the Ledo franchisee got tired of paying for unused space, and Quiznos, being available to fill the space, made more business sense in so far as it would pay some rent.  That is all that I can imagine.  But why would Quiznos want to open next to Ledo?
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> When I think of the places that have failed in that double space (Homewood Deli including Silber's Bakery, P J Henry, and the burger joint whose original are later names escape me at the moment), I wonder if we are going to see another business failure there.  Note that P J Henry failed after its owners expanded to Towson Commons (where everything has failed) and to Bel Air, thus presumably causing the entire enterprise to fail.
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> Time will tell.
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> Steve
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> On 10/8/2011 2:43 PM, langwidge at comcast.net wrote:
>> This is horrible news.
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>> From: "Paul Williams" <oldhousehistory at aol.com>
>> To: "Charles Village Discussion List" <discussion at charlesvillage.info>, "The Charles Village Chat List" <chat at charlesvillage.info>
>> Sent: Thursday, October 6, 2011 1:51:59 PM
>> Subject: [Chat] New biz coming to CV
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>> We noticed that the vacant space between CV Pub and Lido’s Pizza has new permit signs posted….not the charming “B Bistro” like restaurant we all crave but an $80k renovation for yet another chain: Quiznos. 
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