The restaurant group Cambridge Eats and Beats is selling two of its beloved Porter Square businesses, one of which hasn't operated since the start of the pandemic.
“I think we just couldn't face it until then,” Heslop said. “We had of course talked about it over the almost three years, but we were so fixated on opening…we love this neighborhood. It's a big loss for all of us.” Opening Christopher’s would’ve been the equivalent of beginning a new restaurant from scratch, she said. It’s taken three years to get Cambridge Common close to pre-pandemic numbers.
The pandemic forced the restaurant group to go from 160 employees to five and build back from there. It also introduced the business into the world of making deliveries and requiring reservations.