Dudley Square to get co-op pizza place with beer and wine

The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to grant a beer-and-wine license to Haley House for its proposed Dudley Dough pizza place in the new Bolling Building in Dudley Square.

Haley House's Kathleen McKenna said at a hearing this morning that Dudley Dough will be run as a co-op - workers will not only receive culinary training but will share in the profits. McKenna said this is Haley House's attempt to do something about the fact that workers at the bottom of most restaurant enterprises tend to share very little of the revenue.

She said that like the service organization's existing bakery, Dudley Dough will become a community gathering area. She said space will be set aside for a program called Pie R Squared - in which local students will get an hour of math tutoring and free pizza.

In addition to pizza, Dudley Dough will also serve "funky salads," its attorney, Corey Wilk, said.

The mayor's office and the offices of city councilors Tito Jackson, Michael Flaherty, Ayanna Pressley and Steve Murphy supported the proposal. Nobody spoke against. A representative of Future Boston also spoke in favor. Haley House represents "everything Boston is supposed to stand for," she said.