This downtown Boise restaurant just got evicted. A sheriff’s notice is on the door
A downtown Boise restaurant known for its sandwiches and charitable donations has been evicted.
Even Stevens, 815 W. Bannock St., has closed. A “trespassing advisory” was posted on the door by the Ada County Sheriff’s Office.
The artisan sandwich shop, which opened in 2016, is part of a Utah-based chain that has struggled in recent years.
Even Stevens’ parent company filed for bankruptcy in 2019, according to previous Statesman reporting. The prior year, the Statesman wrote that Even Stevens had stopped giving money to local charities for each sandwich sold — part of its branding concept.
Even Stevens gave more than 8,000 pounds of food to The Idaho Foodbank in one year, the Meridian-based nonprofit told the Statesman in 2018. Even Stevens describes itself on Facebook as “a craft casual neighborhood shop with a social conscience.”
Furniture and equipment still fill the dark Boise restaurant, but the eviction notice warns that the “defendants/occupants” will be charged with trespassing. “If you have failed to remove your belongings,” it reads, “... the landlord may now remove and dispose of such property.”
For a commercial tenant to be evicted in Idaho, an eviction lawsuit has to be won in court. Law enforcement then enforces the court order.
Even Stevens opened in 2014, according to the Salt Lake City-based Deseret News, and at one point had as many as 20 stores in six states, “in part because of its ‘buy one, give one’ program that promised a sandwich (actually, its nutritional equivalent) would be given to the needy for every sandwich it sold.”
The downtown Boise store’s eviction was first reported by BoiseDev.
