Monday, November 23, 2009
Retail Dog of Nashville Snacks Chilling at Meharry
Posted by Nicki Wood on Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 9:01 AM
Eating options within walking distance of Fisk, Meharry and Metro General Hospital are so limited, and it's always seemed like a missed opportunity to the lazy-but-observant entrepreneur buried in my personality. Think of all those starving students and rushed hospital employees -- it's a captive audience if there ever was one.
The Dog of Nashville recently stepped in to help fill that demand with its "Dog of Nashville Chill" line of takeout sandwiches, sold from the coolers at the Meharry bookstore.
"We just launched it two weeks ago," says Dog owner Adam Deal. His marketing rep knew that Meharry was looking for product to sell from the bookstore.
It's a great stroke of luck for the campus. The sandwiches are fresh, imaginative and priced at just $5. The most popular, says Deal, is the buffalo chicken wrap, with chicken in blue cheese and Dog's own buffalo sauce.
I opted for jerk chicken with pineapple-habanero slaw and red onion. Easy to eat on foot, wrapped tightly and packed with juicy chicken meat, just the right amount of red onion and a flavorful slaw whose slight sweetness was offset by a slow-building heat that eventually attained "spicy." Next on my list: the turkey-alouette pinwheel. All the sandwiches are just $5.
Deal says he's hoping to expand Dog of Nashville Chill to office buildings and kiosks. If your office at lunchtime is a retail food desert, call the Dog (292-2204) and ask for a sales pitch.
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