A new outdoor seating area at Union Sandwich Company (101 N. Union Street) could both alleviate overcrowding in the store and give visitors a new place to sit and enjoy Old Town.
The sandwich shop owner filed a special use permit with the City of Alexandria to add three tables with four seats each and some planters and rope to delineate the area.
“The entrance and order station are in close proximity to each other which creates a bottleneck when the store is busy,” the application said. “We think that by providing outside seating, we will relieve that bottleneck by allowing people to sit outside.”
The application also added: “It is also very nice to sit outside in Old Town.”
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