In the News Boston Restaurants Want To Sell Groceries. Bureaucrats Say No Way.
But that’s not true, according to Nick Zaiac, a resident fellow in transportation and infrastructure at the R Street Institute, a Washington-based think tank.
“Primarily, this is a part of local zoning code,” Zaiac says. Restaurants selling groceries “is certainly not something that is barred by the state. [The city’s] hands are not tied.”