The layoffs include more than 200 workers at celebrity chef Stephanie Izard’s four Chicago restaurants (Via EaterChicago)
for Outstanding Restaurateur. The company has earned a national reputation as one of the country’s most successful restaurant groups since its flagship Lincoln Park restaurant opened in 2003. It operates 17 restaurants, a bar, and a coffeeshop all in Chicago.Top Chefwinner, has used the success at the restaurant to open more locations and to launch a line of products using the “Goat” name. Izard’s, along Randolph Restaurant Row, will be hit with 96 layoffs, the most of any Boka restaurant.
Boehm, on Friday, tells Eater Chicago that they’ve tried to avoid job cuts and help workers. They’ve desperately raised $150,000 for workers. Boehm says he and Katz gave $100,000 of their owner money to workers, too. The potential layoffs affect nine Boka properties, all of which have been operating at different levels of service. This is the biggest number of layoffs announced by a Chicago restaurant company since the pandemic. In a joint statement from Katz, Boehm, and Izard, the group says “the restaurants are all operating at 40- to 50-percent occupancy and, unfortunately, revenue and staffing reflect that number. We look forward to hiring our staff back as soon as we can operate at 100 percent.
Chicago has closed streets to automobile traffic to allow street dining in some neighborhoods. This gives restaurants a chance to make back some of the revenue lost due to the pandemic, but many restaurants owner say they’re lucky if they break even. Still, not every restaurant has access to outdoor space. Boka’s restaurants are known for elaborately designed dining rooms. Few, like its West Loop Japanese restaurant,, have outdoor options.
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