It's this coziness and constancy that long-time customers say keeps them returning to Bartley's.
Paul E. Doherty '58 has been coming to Bartley's since he was an undergraduate at the time of the restaurant's opening.
And over the past four decades, he has struck up a casual relationship with Bartley.
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"We were talking the other day," Doherty says, smiling, "And we figured that I've eaten at least a ton of beef here."
Yesterday, Doherty drove in from Medford, where he now works, for lunch.
"I just needed my Bartley's burger," he says.
Bartley's resistance to change is a mixed blessing, Doherty jokes--he always orders the same item.
Bartley laughs and jumps in.
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