Like your tiffin quick , light , and served with a side of novelty ? If that ’s the shell ( and you ’re traveling to England in the near future ) , you should swing bySpier ’s salad . The pop - up salad store is housed in an former London phone booth in Bloomsbury Square ( a park in central London),Tech Insider reports . It officially plunge on May 4 , just in sentence for al fresco dining time of year .
From the outside , Spier ’s salad looks like your typical red headphone booth . Inside , however , it ’s equipped with major power , a mini - fridge , and several shelves stocked with two delicatessen dishful ( Salmon River , joint beef cattle , etc . ) and five diversity of square , level-headed salad .
Ben Spier , who have the pop - up store , serves food on Tuesdays and Wednesdays , from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. His salad are made locally using constitutive , seasonal garden truck , and typically be anywhere from $ 5 to $ 8.50 . Featured on this week ’s fare ? For one , roast crybaby salad , suffice with sumac , pomegranate molasses , chili , and sesame seeds .
A salad store inside a telephony booth may voice like a thingamabob , but it ’s really part of a greater business outline designed to create exercise opportunities and breathe new life into England ’s unused phone kiosk . The country ’s iconic crimson fixtures have dwindled over the year thanks to cell phones and other advances in communication technology . In 2002,NPR report , there were 92,000 Booth across England . As of 2014 , there were only 48,000 — and many of them were no longer in use .
That ’s why in 2014 , two Brighton businessman , Eddie Ottewell and Steve Beeken , teamed up with communication companionship BT to launch theRed Kiosk Company . Their business organisation transforms England ’s one-time , out - of - usance phone booths into offices for aspiring entrepreneur . presently , there aremore than a dozenre - purpose phone booths across England sellingcoffee , ice cream , and other items .
Now , thanks to Spier , who originally launched his business in 2011 , there ’s also one selling salad . " I choose to deal from the telephone set box , because they ’re beautiful London ikon which are used — a perfect brownfield overhaul , " he told Tech Insider .
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