Salty Iguana customers claim employees weren't paid last check
The on the east side of the state recently. One of the restaurants was in Lawrence, the other was in Prairie Village.
The sign at the Prairie Village location off 83rd and Mission was recently taken down, reminding customers of the good memories they had there.
Jonathan Nye had not seen his old hangout without the words 'Salty Iguana' on the overhang until Wednesday.
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'It's sad,' Nye said in an interview with FOX4 Wednesday. 'I mean there's a lot of people that have been coming here. It was more than just a restaurant. You know, it was like a neighborhood restaurant and bar. Everybody in the bar knew each other. I mean it was really like 'Prairie Village Cheers.''
Nye told FOX4 that all the regulars knew him for wearing funny hats. He became friends with the staff there too.
'It was so unexpected,' Nye said of the situation for the Prairie Villgae restaurant workers. 'Then they also didn't get paid. You know when I was talking to former staff, they didn't get paid, so we're hoping that a lot of the regulars, if we can get the word out on social media that other regulars that came here, weekly, daily, will reach out to the GoFundMe page and help bridge the gap a little bit for these people that lost their jobs.'
FOX4 was not able to reach the president of the Prairie Village restaurant via phone call or email.
According to the last Salty Iguana filing on the Kansas Secretary of State's website for the Prairie Village restaurant, Dan Chandler's the president of the restaurant. Our email to the restaurant wasn't returned Wednesday.
Tuesday, March 4, was the last day the Independence Salty Iguana location was open too. A GoFundMe's been set up by somebody in Independence.
Wednesday, Nye mentioned one specifically for the workers at the Prairie Village restaurant.
In Prairie Village, one resident FOX4 talked to Wednesday said her dad went to that restaurant every Wednesday to meet up with friends.
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'Yeah,' Emily Allen said when asked if she's talked to her dad about the Salty Iguana closing. 'He's really upset about it because him and his buddies used to meet there, so now they have to find a new place. They've been doing it for like 20 years.'
The two Kansas Salty Iguana restaurants
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