{"id":41407,"date":"2022-03-30T18:24:01","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T00:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/update-popeyes-opening-in-cortez-this-fall-will-employ-40\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T09:00:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:00:47","slug":"update-popeyes-opening-in-cortez-this-fall-will-employ-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/update-popeyes-opening-in-cortez-this-fall-will-employ-40\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Popeyes opening in Cortez this fall; will employ 40"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=afc7f880-c271-5568-a62f-8f9deee4e241&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1818\" height=\"1266\" alt=\"A file photo of a Popeye's restaurant in Houston.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A file photo of a Popeye's restaurant in Houston.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy WhisperToMe<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Popeyes likely will start serving its spicy, Louisiana-style fried chicken in Cortez this fall.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Josephson, owner of the new Popeyes Louisiana Chicken drive-thru restaurant, said the exact opening date is contingent on how long it takes to source equipment and contractors.<\/p>\n<p>His company, JS Foods, aims to open the restaurant in the fall, if not before the end of the year, he said.<\/p>\n<p>JS Foods operates several Burger King restaurants in the region, including the Cortez location. It recently entered into an agreement with Popeyes to open Colorado locations, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant will recruit 40 local employees for positions ranging from crew to management, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Popeyes will be built on a vacant lot at 330 South Broadway and share customer access with the Family Dollar store at 324 South Broadway.<\/p>\n<p>Planned hours for the restaurant are 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The closest locations are in Clifton and Rio Rancho, New Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Cortez City Council approved the application for the 3,341-square-foot restaurant, submitted by Kansas-based firm Plaza Street Partners, on March 22 after the city planning department\u2019s recommendation.<\/p>\n<p>Josephson was unsure when construction would commence, as the building is still in the design and permit process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drive-thru restaurant\u2019s preliminary hours will be 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,438,439,28,167,29,450],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-41407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-food","tag-food-drink","tag-headlines","tag-local-news-lead","tag-newsletter","tag-restaurant-and-catering"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84955,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41407\/revisions\/84955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41407"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=41407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}