ORDER-2017-72 : Application of Arben Bashllari & Mirela Bashllari: My Diner, Inc. d/b/a My Diner for a Common Victualler License at 399 Main Street, Melrose

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▶ 56:06 Speaker 2: reconsideration in hopes that the motion fails motion is seconded by alderman mortimer anybody voting in favor of the motion is voting to reconsider the order anyone voting negatively is voting not to reconsider the order all those in favor of the motion please indicate by saying aye all those opposed opposed okay motion passes you're still all set you're right

▶ 56:36 Monica C. Medeiros: thank you motion to take order number 2017-72 out of order

▶ 56:43 Speaker 2: Alderman Dieros moves to consider order 2017-72 next. Is there a second? Second. Seconded by Alderman Mortimer. On the motion, all those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion passes.

▶ 56:57 Speaker 2: Chair needs a request for immediate consideration to discuss this order. Motion for immediate consideration. Alderman McAteer-Margolis asks for immediate consideration of the order. Is there an objection? There is not. We have another motion.

▶ 57:11 Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis: Motion to bring the applicants forward.

▶ 57:13 Speaker 2: Alderman McAteer-Margolis is moving to suspend the rules so that we might hear from the applicants. The motion is seconded by Alderman Mortimer on the motion to suspend the rules. All those in favor? Aye. Anyone opposed? Motion passes. Could the applicants please come forward?

▶ 57:29 Speaker 3: This is for my diner.

▶ 57:32 Speaker 4: Yep. Yeah. Your diner.

▶ 57:37 Speaker 4: Hi.

▶ 57:39 Speaker 2: Folks, if you could describe your business and tell us what your hours of operation, your number of employees, and your seating capacity, it might be. That would be helpful for a start.

▶ 57:50 Speaker 5: Okay, so we're going to be opening seven days a week, basically six to three. We want to open January 1st, but that's undecided, probably January 2nd. We had a business for 12 years in South Boston, a breakfast-lunch, very known, and we're going to try to do this here. new town of course but we live in malden uh we're excited and basically that's that's all i can say

▶ 58:23 Speaker 2: and just so anybody watching at home knows can you tell us what the name of your business is

▶ 58:29 Speaker 5: name will be my diner um my diner is uh a name it was in south boston so we're kind of following

▶ 58:39 Speaker 2: that and and your new business is going to be on West Wyoming Avenue yeah yep

▶ 58:46 Speaker 2: do we have any questions do we have any questions for the applicants thank you I

▶ 58:58 Monica C. Medeiros: have to say I've just you know we talked a lot about 529 tapas 529 being very exciting and i've just heard you know so much excitement about your uh restaurant coming to melrose and so we're also looking forward to it and wishing you a lot of luck thank you um and am i correct that your location in south boston is no longer it's no longer there this building

▶ 59:24 Monica C. Medeiros: was sold so you have last june building was sold so you have lots of experience in the restaurant

▶ 59:29 Speaker 5: to business and yes we had that for 12 years so we we said to let her go but

▶ 59:35 Monica C. Medeiros: we're glad to have you here and you know close by and wishing you much luck and thank you and uh just to point out that i see that we do have all the sign-offs from the appropriate personnel

▶ 59:50 Speaker 2: yeah thank you thank you anything else relative to this order alderman ford thank you mr president

▶ 59:53 Scott M. Forbes: um can you just uh are we serving are we serving breakfast and lunch is it just uh just breakfast

▶ 59:59 Speaker 5: and lunch basically it's american food we have we're very known actually for turkey dinners we make fresh turkey every day fresh turkey every day not delhi turkey so that's very popular we're going to build turkey dinners turkey sandwich has turkey pilgrims turkey hash um turkey hash has turkey chilies so it's it's basically yeah it's fresh turkey every day so i'm proud to say

▶ 1:00:28 Scott M. Forbes: it that you know i sell it every day that's great and then uh i know the previous place was it was counter service there is that it's going to be the same yeah okay so the seating is roughly the same

▶ 1:00:36 Speaker 5: it's just we put new tile painting cleaning that's it great all right well i'm excited to see you

▶ 1:00:40 Scott M. Forbes: there i live right around the corner so i can come get a breakfast sandwich anytime i want but this area of this area needs a spark um there there have been long-standing stores there for for a long time and so it's actually exciting to see something come in just as the applicants before you've been very responsible for the revitalization of that franklin square area and i give you all the credit in the world and we we're we're happy to have you here um i i also look for great things from you as well so i wish you the best of luck moving forward and i will i will be there on

▶ 1:01:18 Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis: on January 2nd thank you yeah just to clarify you're right kind of like the question the mobile gas station where the old Tessa Mia used to be yeah yes

▶ 1:01:26 Speaker 5: people know where you are the station just opened the up yeah right right and

▶ 1:01:28 Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis: it said in your application something about 12 parking spaces are those like the ones behind the building okay and do you share those with the other with benjamin and benjamin moore in the floor place the shoe place okay okay great and um so are you going to do take out on that fresh turkey sandwich okay and delivery actually okay great all right

▶ 1:01:52 Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis: well thank you very much and um as some of my fellow committee members have said we look forward to um having you um in the community and getting involved thank you thank you we have a motion

▶ 1:02:06 Speaker 2: relative to this order motion to recommend second alderman mccarty margolis moves to recommend the motion seconded by alden on the motion all those in favor motion passes folks you're all set thank you for coming thank you thank you thank you very much thank you see you soon

▶ 1:02:22 Speaker 2: okay do we have any orders out of order this evening i mean the additional order is out of