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Remember back in September when, in discussing the ongoing trainwreck that is Republican Party of Minnesota Chair Tony Sutton’s Baja Sol franchise, I cited this article in a local business journal as an example of Sutton puffery?
[Tony's wife Bridget] Sutton said she wants to open as many as six Baja Sol Tortilla Grills in the next year and as many as 12 over the next two years. The first new store is scheduled to open at the Fountains of Arbor Lakes in Maple Grove on Oct. 4, replacing a recently closed location in downtown Minneapolis. (Chipotle is moving into that downtown space, read that story here.)The company allowed its lease at U.S. Bank Plaza to expire and will remodel its nearby location at City Center to accommodate extra traffic.
Well, the Baja Sol scheduled to open on October 4, wound up having its opening date pushed back to December 17, per its website page:
And guess what? It’s been pushed back yet again, this time to January, per Baja Sol’s Twitter feed — even as it was confirmed that another Baja Sol (the cantina in Eden Prairie or “EP”) that had been closed for remodeling for some months was not reopening:
Furthermore, as Sally Jo Sorensen of BSP Tweeted, yet another Baja Sol has shut its doors forever:
So, for the record, in the past three months, we’ve got two closed Baja Sols — both of which had been opened to grand fanfare just two years ago — and a Baja Sol whose opening’s been pushed back two times and three months, and which still isn’t open.
Where’s the big expansion promised back on September 13? And how long will the Coopers be willing to prop up Tony and Bridget’s turkey farm for right-wingers with questionable money skills? Inquiring minds want to know.
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LOL! Sorry, but it sounds so funny, almost too funny to be true. I bet they had loads of customers, right?
Where do unemployed people spend their money at? Not the local elites establishments, that’s for sure!
The funny thing is that one of the reasons Sutton and the Coopers thought this would fly is because — wait for it — they thought the Latinos immigrating to the US would be flocking to places like theirs, when in fact the Latinos prefer authentic Latino food, which can be found in even the smallest and most rural towns nowadays. So all Sutton wound up doing when he and the Coopers (of TCF Bank fame) bought the chain in October of 2006 and tried to expand it was try to squeeze in another nationwide chain into the already-saturated “fresh Mex” market.
But, when you realize that before Sutton bought the chain, the local GOP’s ideal of a typical local sit-down faux-Mex establishment is the horrifically bad Restaurante de Ol’ Mexico, you’ll understand that even Baja Sol’s faux-Mex is a massive step up from that.
The Suttons web of lies is coming down and coming down rapidly. It will be sad for the republican party when they realize who they elected to lead them. There is so much more coming and when it blows up, it will be big. You have uncovered many things and eviction notices are big business. That’s usually just one small part of a much bigger problem.