The Marion Planning Board Tuesday night granted a special permit to a business that will sell made-to-order, cold-food charcuterie and vegetable and fruit platters out of a Wareham Street storefront.
Cynthia Servais explained that “Savor the Spread,” the business she plans to open at 119 Wareham Road, will not be involved in cooking any food and will be a retail operation only, not a sit-down eatery. At that location, which is zoned General Business, Servais will prepare platters that customers preorder by telephone, text or email, then pick up. Small orders can be filled in a day, she said, larger orders in 48 hours.
“I just want to be able to legally serve these platters,” she explained.
Servais said she will have one refrigerator for storing her ingredients and another to store the platters ready to be picked up. She will have a stainless-steel table for food preparation and a portable sink for washing her hands.
She will be sharing the retail space of “Right from the Vine.” The front of the space facing the street will be hers, the back will belong to Right from the Vine. She said her interior will include a plexiglass shield to wall off the food, and she will have the use of “Vine’s” three-basin sink to clean her ingredients and her utensils.
Planning Board Chair Norman Hills asked if there were opinions on the “Savor the Spread” plan from the Building inspector, the Fire Department or the Board of Health. Board secretary Terri Santos said there has been no word from them, but that does not mean they haven’t reviewed the plan.
Servais elaborated that she has received her food-handler and food-management certificates from the Board of Health. “I am current with the Board of Health,” she said.
That seemed all the Planning Board needed to hear. The panel then approved the business’s Special Permit unanimously.
The next meeting of the Marion Planning Board will be held on Monday, July 18, at 7:00 pm.
Marion Planning Board
By Michael J. DeCicco