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Mayor Menino an eager customer on Boylston St.
SNIP:
Menino did not come just for the food. He came on a mission: to put money back in the till of local businesses, closed for more than a week while Copley Square remained a crime scene. Many of the employees are servers and bartenders who depend almost entirely on tips.
“It’s real exciting to me to see all the people down here,’’ Menino said between sips of soup. “I had to see it for myself.”
Menino sat with Sheila Dillon, who leads Boston’s Department of Neighborhood Development. The city has dispatched grief counselors to help employees working the day of the blasts, Dillon said, and it has registered 500 businesses at a city-run information center that will help those businesses navigate insurance claims and applications for federal aid.
When Copley Square reopened Wednesday, people mobbed its bars and restaurants. Patrons bounced from bar to bar, some leaving $20 tips after ordering just one drink, said Daniel Donahue, managing director at The Lenox. Hotel staff and bartenders patronized their competitors to try to spread the money around. Restaurants sent food to employees at other restaurants still cleaning up after the blasts.
“That’s Boston,” Donahue said. “That wouldn’t happen in any other city.”
“It’s real exciting to me to see all the people down here,’’ Menino said between sips of soup. “I had to see it for myself.”
Menino sat with Sheila Dillon, who leads Boston’s Department of Neighborhood Development. The city has dispatched grief counselors to help employees working the day of the blasts, Dillon said, and it has registered 500 businesses at a city-run information center that will help those businesses navigate insurance claims and applications for federal aid.
When Copley Square reopened Wednesday, people mobbed its bars and restaurants. Patrons bounced from bar to bar, some leaving $20 tips after ordering just one drink, said Daniel Donahue, managing director at The Lenox. Hotel staff and bartenders patronized their competitors to try to spread the money around. Restaurants sent food to employees at other restaurants still cleaning up after the blasts.
“That’s Boston,” Donahue said. “That wouldn’t happen in any other city.”
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/04/25/mayor-thomas-menino-eats-lunch-boylston-street-support-recovering-businesses/VbEcYWggCKSnHonwkhQurK/story.html
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Thanks, graywarrior!
lately. He looks and sounds like a kind person. I bet it feels good for him to see the People coming back to Copley.. it makes me happy way over here!
thanks She, for the article on good ol Boston People infusing cash back into the businesses who had to close for awhile. Yes, they'll 
BACK!
