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Is there anyone out there besides me that likes Boston Market?
I have tried on my own to get them to come to the Villages, but have had little response. I've sent them a ton of info on the Villages. I wrote to the Villages Real Estate Development office, and they said that the voices of the Villagers would be needed to convince BM to come here. Please, if you like BM, tell them.Go On line and send them a comment to 'come to the Villages'. It seems only a 'ground swell' of support by Villagers can make this happen. If you live south of 466, and close to 466A like I do, you KNOW we need more restaurant choices. Brownwood it not the only answer. There is vacant land right on 466A in front of Publix for a Boston Market. Please please give them 'buzz' and let them know we could use them here.. Thanks for your help..
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No thanks to Boston Market.

Love Boston Market ! Guess that's two of us.

I like it, too. Healthier than a fast food dinner.

Another fan of BM and will definitely add my name to those requesting one here.

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Go On line and send them a comment to 'come to the Villages'.

also include the link to The Villages Commercial property

thevillagescommercialproperty.com

Me too! Love them. We travel to Ocala to eat there.

I like the Boston Market menu but only ate there occasionally at home because it wasn't conveniently located to my house. Their business must not have been very good because it closed and a McDonalds went in.

Boston Market creamed spinach.....mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!

I wish there was one here also. I'm sure they would do well.

The nearest one is in Ocala and we bring some of their meals back when visiting.

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Originally Posted by Bonnevie (Post 756428)

I like it, too. Healthier than a fast food dinner.

There is absolutely nothing healthy about Boston Market food. All of the vegetables are drowning in butter, or more likely some fake substitute containing trans fats. The chicken is ok if you don't eat the dark meat or the skin. The corn bread is loaded with fat and processed refined carbs.

Most people see chicken and automatically think it's healthy. The only healthy chicken is baked or grilled chicken breast. Everything else has as much fat as any other meat and the skin has more fat that most cuts of meat.

People also assume that fish is healthy so they go to MacDonalds and get a pice of crappy fish covered in a think layer of batter containing unhealthy refined carbs and then soaked trans fat oils for five minutes.Then it's covered with a mayonnaise type dressing like tatar sauce.

There is so much crap being passed off as heath foods or healthier alternatives that is no better than a Big Mac and fries.

Mickey D's has probably sold over a billion Big Mac and Fries; can't be all bad (I have had about 1 or 3 of those 1,000,000,000).

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Boston Market Calorie Counter
Food Serving Prot Carb Fat Pts Cals
Menu Category: Make Your Meal
1/4 White Original Rotisserie Chicken (Breast & wing portions, tapioca starch, chicken flavour with gum arabic) 9.3 oz 67 2 27 12.5 510 MORE
1/4 White Original Rotisserie Chicken, No Skin (Skinless breast & wing portions, tapioca starch, chicken flavour with gum arabic, garlic powderr) 9.3 oz 61 2 7 7 320 MORE
1/4 White Simply Seasoned Chicken (Breast & wing portions, tapioca starch, chicken flavour with gum arabic) 9.2 oz 67 1 27 12.5 510 MORE
1/4 Dark Original Rotisserie Chicken (Thigh & drumstick portions, celery flavor, sweet garlic marinade) 7 oz 47 1 26 11 420 MORE
1/4 Dark Original Rotisserie Chicken, No Skin (Skinless thigh & drumstick portions, tapioca starch, chicken flavour with gum arabic, garlic powder) 7 oz 46 1 21 10 400 MORE
1/4 Dark Simply Seasoned Chicken (Skinless thigh & drumstick portions, tapioca starch, chicken flavour with gum arabic, garlic powder) 7 oz 47 0 26 11 420 MORE
Roasted Turkey (Turkey breast, milk) 5 oz 31 1 10 5.5 230 MORE
Pastry Top Chicken Pot Pie (Corn strach, poultry fat, wheat flour, yeast extract, wheat, soy milk) 15 oz 31 59 49 19.5 800 MORE
USDA Choice All Beef Meatloaf (Beef, dehydrated onion, dried whole eggs, Romano cheese, wheat soy, diced onions) 7.7 oz 29 23 33 12 480 MORE
Award Winning Roasted Sirloin (Beef top sirloin) 5 oz 43 0 10 6.5 270 MORE
Menu Category: Family Meals
Whole Original Rotisserie Chicken (Natural chicken, tapioca starch, chicken flavour with gum arabic, onion flavour, garlic marinade) 16 oz 102 7 28 25.5 1,140 MORE
Roasted Turkey (Turkey breast, non fat milk, onion powder, caramel colour, butter flavour) 5 oz 31 1 10 5.5 230 MORE
USDA Choice Beef Meatloaf (Beef, Egg, Romano cheese, roasted onion, hickory ketchup) 7.7 oz 31 4 35 13.5 510 MORE
Award Winning Sirloin (Beef top sirloin) 5 oz 43 0 10 6.5 270 MORE
Menu Category: Soups & Sides
Sweet Corn LF (Kernel corn, butter blend, dehydrated garlic) 6.2 oz 6 37 4 3.5 170 MORE
Creamed Spinach (Spinach, cream cheese, onions, corn starch) 6.7 oz 9 12 23 7 280 MORE
Green Beans (Green beans, butter blend) 4.7 oz 2 10 5 1.5 90 MORE
Cinnamon Apples (Apple, brown sugar, corn starch) 5.1 oz 0 47 3 4 210 MORE
Macaroni and Cheese (Dry milk, semisoft and blue cheese) 7.8 oz 14 39 12 7.5 330 MORE
Mashed Potatoes (Potatoes, milk, butter, onion, vegetable) 7.8 oz 4 29 9 4.5 210 MORE
Poultry Gravy (Butter flavour, chicken flavour, onion powder) 2 oz 0 4 1 1 25 MORE
Garlic Dill New Potatoes LF (Potatoes, milk, butter, onion, vegetable, soy lecithin) 5.5 oz 3 24 3 2.5 140 MORE
Fresh Vegetable Stuffing (Dried bread crumbs, dried onion, carrots, cornbread, egg yolks) 4.8 oz 3 25 8 4.5 190 MORE
Sweet Potato Casserole (Potatoes, cream, butter, wheat, treenut, peanut) 7 oz 4 77 17 10.5 460 MORE
Fresh Steamed Vegetables LF (Broccoli, carrots, green beans, zucchini squash) 4.8 oz 2 8 2 1 50 MORE
Cranberry Walnut Relish LF (Cranberry relish, walnuts, orange peel) 3 oz

Oops the chart did NOT post as I intended it to......Google Calorie & Fat content @ BM for the details.......sorry!

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Originally Posted by BigBopper (Post 756405)

Is there anyone out there besides me that likes Boston Market?

A while ago, I heard they were having financial problems. They were big in the North East, probably because of the name!

We used to go the Boston Market in Palm Harbor every other week. Would like to get a Boston Market in the Villages but it would have to be near Southern Trace for us to use it rather than Crispers, Subway, NYPD Pizza, and the other close by places we frequent.

The Boston Market in Palm Harbor was about 3 miles from our house so not much of a drive and I could take the back roads to avoid the often murderous Highway 19.

Palm Harbor is between Tarpon Springs and Clearwater near Dunedin, Oldsmar and Safety Harbor.

The Tampa Bay area has 13 Boston Market restaurants.

Brooksvile, Florida now has a lot of restaurants including McDonalds.

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Originally Posted by senior citizen (Post 756820)

Thanks for letting me know. So, Rt. 19 is now crazy?
When we drove it, back in the '80s it was fairly empty up to Brooksville.
But, we had left early in the morning.

I think there's also a newish (to us anyway) major highway connecting Brooksville and that Spring Hill massive development to the Tampa ST. Pete area........but at the time, we liked to take the slower roads to see more things. At that time, Tarpon Springs was very pretty.....very different. I'm sure that Brooksville has "grown up" since the '80s.

If I were there now, I'd definitely go to the Greek restaurants.

Again, thanks for letting me know.

US 19 in the Tarpon Springs area through St Pete. area used to be one of the Top Ten deadliest roads in the US with a death about every other week and many accidents as well. It is like putting a major freeway through a series of strip malls. http://tbo.com/pinellas-county/us--i...putation-22650

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Originally Posted by Madelaine Amee (Post 756769)

A while ago, I heard they were having financial problems. They were big in the North East, probably because of the name!

They changed their name at one point. I'm having trouble remembering what it was, but it was something similar to Boston Market. B........ Market.

The food is very tasty. AllI'm saying is don't make the mistake of thinking that it is some kind of healthy meal.

Love Boston Market. I think it would be a great addition to The Villages.

Ditto on having Boston Market here in the Villages. Have also sent them emails and have had no replays. Wrote to Omaha Steaks also asking them to consider opening an outlet store here.

I also agree we could use a Boston Market!!! And we need
a Wawa!!!!

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Originally Posted by Dr Winston O Boogie jr (Post 756835)

Used to be Boston Chicken until the mid 90's.

Boston Market is one of those places where the food tastes good, but a few hours later I feel like something died in my mouth. I think they would be very successful here.

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Originally Posted by BarryRX (Post 756567)

Boston Market creamed spinach.....mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!

My favorite!!! Really wish they would build here.

I love Boston Market.

I am pretty sure that Stouffers frozen creamed spinach is close.

Just wrote to Boston Market again asking them to consider opening in the area. And wrote to Omaha Steaks again asking them the same. On their website is a spot that you can search for their retail stores. The closest is 52 miles away; there are several here in FL, why not one near us? Now if we could only get a Bakers Square restaurant.

Home Style Meals

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Originally Posted by Count'n the days (Post 756531)

FYI: Boston Market was owned by McDonald's from 2000 to 2007. Many poor stores were converted to "the arches" during that timeframe.

Skip

How bout something that would be really good- like a PF Changs- now theres a restaurant that would be full all the time.

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Originally Posted by Skip (Post 762278)

FYI: Boston Market was owned by McDonald's from 2000 to 2007. Many poor stores were converted to "the arches" during that timeframe.

Skip

That happened to a BM location in S. Jax Bch ... became a MickeyD's.

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Originally Posted by LndLocked (Post 762385)

That happened to a BM location in S. Jax Bch ... became a MickeyD's.

They bought the chain looking for well placed real estate sites. Converted the poorly performing ones to Mickey D's, ran the rest without too much fanfare and then sold the chain to private equity about 6 years ago. The new owners are just keeping the status quo. They haven't had a new location in all that time.

Skip

boston market in the villages

thanks to all who answered,now go out there and email,whatever, to Boston Market,, let them know we care...

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Originally Posted by Skip (Post 762792)

Thank you Skip. I don't know HOW you know a bunch of really interesting stuff but you do.

They are NOT opening new ones at this time. So place our hopes elsewhere.

Got it.