Once billing itself as a “sandwich shop with a cause,” Even Stevens appears to be done in Utah. All eight of Even Stevens’ Utah locations are now closed, and several locations have been evicted.
Utah-based restaurant chain Even Stevens has closed all of its Utah stores, including 414 E. 200 South in Salt Lake City, pictured Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023.Once billing itself as a “sandwich shop with a cause,” Even Stevens appears to be done in Utah.
Even Stevens is owned by Portland, Oregon-based “omni-channel food enterprise” Headwaters Concepts, whose previous website listed Brooks Pickering as its managing partner and chief executive officer. Pickering is also listed as Even Stevens’ CEO on LinkedIn. Volunteers of America, the YWCA and Crossroads Urban Center are some of the nonprofits that received donations from Even Stevens. In 2018, Pickering told The Tribune that Even Stevens had donated more than 3 million sandwiches — worth almost $2 million.suspended its giveback program in a restructuring effort to repair its finances
In 2019, Even Stevens filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protections in Arizona and also closed its Provo store with the goal of reorganizing the company, said Pernell McGuire, a former attorney for Even Stevens Sandwiches LLC. All that created a situation where they “could not operate profitably,” McGuire said. At the time of the 2019 bankruptcy, the board selected Pickering as the managing partner. McGuire and Pickering worked on a plan together to reorganize all of Even Stevens’ locations, but because of opposition from some of the landlords and creditors, that didn’t happen. They instead came up with a plan to sell all the restaurants.
The Even Stevens locations in downtown Salt Lake City, Sugar House, Draper, Cottonwood Heights, Ogden, Logan, St. George and Provo have all closed at this point. The Logan location alone owes $157,731.72 in past due rental payments, late fees, accrued interest, unpaid property taxes and more. The circumstances created an “unsteadiness” about where Even Stevens was heading, Ngo said. “People were just staying there just to stay there,” he said. “They [didn’t] believe in the brand or the culture anymore.”
Rosalio Salas, a former general manager at the Blue Lemon location in Highland, said working there was “very stressful” before he left in January, because his employees would come to him asking for their paychecks, but the checks would bounce. He said his own paychecks would bounce as well.— said that around December, his employees’ checks started bouncing, and then some of the replacement checks that they’d receive would bounce as well.
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