B.Good shutters Concord restaurant

The B.Good restaurant in Concord has served its last harvest bowl.

The Boston-based fast-casual chain, known for its salads, bowls, burgers and health-minded approach, first opened at the end of Fort Eddy Road in 2017.

The closure leaves just two directly owned B.Good locations, in Cambridge, Mass. and South Portland, Maine, alongside franchised locations inside Logan Airport. At its peak, the company had more than forty restaurants across the greater-Boston area and every New England state except Vermont. It has contracted steadily over the last few years.

It is set to reopen as Anna’s Tacqueria, another regional chain with the same parent company.

Company officials did not respond to requests for comment.

B.Good bought out a number of Boloco locations, including the one in Concord in 2016, when that chain, also based in Boston, ran into financial troubles.

While separate companies, the two have always had strong ties. B.Good’s founder, Anthony Ackil, got his start at Boloco and had a close friendship with its CEO and founder, John Pepper.

Boloco, too, is down to just a single Boston location after its longtime Hanover spot closed. Pepper, a Dartmouth alum and a Hanover resident, sold it to a Lyme resident, who transformed it into a new burrito spot under her own brand.

In 2019, Ackil started Streetlight Ventures, now the parent company for B.Good and other well-known regional chains like Margarita’s, Otto Pizza and Anna’s Tacqueria.

Concord’s isn’t the only B.Good converted to an Anna’s over the last few years: Natick and Woburn locations met the same fate.

Offering tacos, burritos, bowls, salads and quesadillas, Anna’s has similar menu options and counter-flow as other fast-casual Mexican restaurants like Chipotle and Moe’s.

It was founded in 1995, and Concord would host the only Anna’s Tacqueria outside of Massachusetts.