Booths, chairs and other furniture sits outside Fresh City this afternoon.
Talk about fast food. It was business as usual at Fresh City on Turnpike Street in North Andover yesterday. Customers dined on the franchise’s signature sandwiches, wraps, burritos, salads and stir fry. Today, however, the Fresh City sign that adorned the building is down and by 3 p.m. crews had moved most of the restaurant’s tables, chairs and counters out of the building. Fresh City, by an visual estimation, is closed.
A Fresh City van sits outside the store.
I put in a call to the corporate office this afternoon and haven’t heard back yet. The only information posted on the storefront is a sign saying “closed” and thanking customers for their patronage. I’ll post more if we learn anything.
Fresh City opened its North Andover location on Nov. 10, 2005. If, as it appears, the franchise is permanently gone, its run lasted for four years and two days.
Fresh City has 16 store franchises (well, at least it had 16) in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Virginia.
Noah R. Bombard is the new media editor for The Eagle-Tribune in North Andover. He is a former award-winning newspaper and magazine editor who has been covering news in Massachusetts since 1997.