{"id":2442088,"date":"2019-03-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=302444"},"modified":"2019-03-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T06:00:00","slug":"lost-cajun-managers-take-issue-with-how-eatery-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/lost-cajun-managers-take-issue-with-how-eatery-closed\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost Cajun managers take issue with how eatery closed"},"content":{"rendered":"
Former Lost Cajun employees and brothers Ben and Preston Williams outside the now-closed restaurant location in downtown Glenwood Springs.<\/strong>
Chelsea Self \/ Post Independent<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Two former managers at The Lost Cajun Glenwood Springs, which closed earlier this month, say the owner of the franchise location told them they no longer had jobs just one day before the closure.<\/p>\n

On March 5, which happened to be Mardi Gras this year, The Lost Cajun Glenwood Springs posted to its Facebook page: \u201cIt is with deep sadness and great regret that we announce that The Lost Cajun Glenwood Springs is now permanently closed.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to General Manager Benjamin Williams, franchise owner Greg Jones let him know the news via a text message March 4.<\/p>\n

The text message from Jones, according to Williams, read, \u201cSorry to say it, but we\u2019re finished. The January and February financials were so bad that I can\u2019t keep pouring money into a losing proposition.\u201d<\/p>\n

When the surprised Williams inquired as of when, Jones purportedly texted back, \u201cNow.\u201d<\/p>\n

In later texts from the same day, Williams said he asked, \u201cWhat about our rent?\u201d and commented, \u201cYou should have given us a heads up so that we could have looked for new jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n

To which he said Jones replied, \u201cSorry. Just made the decision yesterday.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Lost Cajun has over 20 locations, from Colorado where it began with the original Frisco location, to South Carolina. There are now numerous different franchise owners.<\/p>\n

The Lost Cajun Glenwood Springs opened near what\u2019s now the new Grand Avenue Bridge Plaza in May 2014.<\/p>\n

According to thelostcajun.com, Greg Jones became that specific location\u2019s new owner in January 2018. The switch came after Gabe Griffin, son of franchise founder Raymond Griffin, ran the Glenwood location for nearly four years.<\/p>\n

Brothers Ben and Preston Williams, who co-managed the location, said they cared deeply about the food they put out and the customers they served.<\/p>\n

\u201cI take a lot of pride in what I do,\u201d Ben Williams, who had worked at the eatery since Feb. 8, 2017, said in a recent interview.<\/p>\n

He said he was the one who also had to deliver the news to the dozen or so staffers that they need not come into work.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have an employee who has a baby on the way,\u201d Benjamin Williams said of one of the staff members.<\/p>\n

Numerous messages left with Lost Cajun corporate offices and franchise owner Greg Jones have gone unreturned.<\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Lost Cajun employees and brothers Ben and Preston Williams outside the now-closed restaurant location in downtown Glenwood Springs.Chelsea Self \/ Post Independent Two former managers at The Lost Cajun Glenwood Springs, which closed earlier this month, say the owner of the franchise location told them they no longer had jobs just one day before […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2442088","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 18:12:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2442088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2442088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2442088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2442088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}