April 18, 2013 — As of Thursday night, both sides of Boylston Street from Clarendon to Hereford are sealed off, and the MBTA Green Line trolley station in Copley Square is as well.
Legal Sea Foods closed down not one but two restaurants in a matter of seconds Monday, at the Prudential Center and Copley Place, after the bombs went off, leaving thousands of dollars of unpaid-for and un-served food to be thrown out when staff could return a day later to what became a floor-to-ceiling sterilizing job.
"It’s a lot of uneaten food on plates, cellphones, sunglasses, people who just got up and took off," Legal president Roger Berkowitz said. The company is pushing to get the Pru and Copley restaurants reopened by 5 p.m. Friday.
"Getting back up will be cathartic. It will get back to a semblance of normalcy," Berkowitz said, adding, "In retrospect, yes, you know we did lose business over the course of the last x number of days. But that's sort of a secondary issue. Obviously you look at the bigger picture as Bostonians and business people and residents here … It doesn't mean you stop living your life, it doesn't mean you stop doing the things you like to do. It just means you have to be more aware of everything around you."
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