The Foxes Boxes, 622 N. Fourth St., is a new Brooklyn Arts District restaurant offering fresh food by the box.
 
The menu consists of three types of boxes, a gourmet box ($12), a Fox box ($9) and a basic box ($6), each with a choice of main items and a side. Customers can customize each box to suit their taste and budget, explained co-founder Rachel Bodkin-Fox.
 
The concept for the restaurant combines Bodkin-Fox's and her husband Randy Fox’s passion for social causes and creative, affordable food.
 
As part of its mission, The Foxes Boxes will partner with community organizations to help provide on-the-job training for marginalized populations, Bodkin-Fox said. A portion of the staff will be made up of externship participants taking part in an intensive three-month program aimed at developing skills for employment within the hospitality industry.
 
“This is an area of the business that we will focus on as soon as we have worked out all the kinks associated with opening a new restaurant,” Bodkin-Fox said. “We want to make sure that everything is in place to ensure that when an employee goes through our program, that they go on to an establishment that will offer a livable wage and opportunities for growth.”
 
Fox has been working with sons Jackson and Henry to help mold the parameters of the externship, while Bodkin-Fox, who will graduate this week with a graduate degree in public administration from the University of North Carolina Wilmington, continues to refine the workforce development plan.
 
Bodkin-Fox said that while the restaurant’s workforce development goals are serious business, The Foxes Boxes is designed to be a fun, light-hearted gathering space for folks of all ages. There are plenty of games for customers to choose from, and game nights as well as open mic and film nights are planned. Bodkin-Fox is also seeking teenage artists to display and sell their artwork.
 
The Foxes Boxes will be open 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday; 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday–Saturday; and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday. A grand opening is planned for Saturday, and full menu and details on upcoming events are available on the restaurant's website.

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