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Colorado restaurant owners that defied ‘safer-at-home’ order on Mother’s Day closes second location

By 11/14/2020 | updated 5 years ago

The owners of C&C Breakfast & Korean Kitchen, the Castle Rock restaurant that defied Colorado’s safer-at-home rule on Mother’s Day, are shutting down their Colorado Springs location permanently as tighter health restrictions go into effect in El Paso County.

The restaurant’s owners, Jesse and April Arellano, announced the shut down of their Castle Rock location in July citing financial hardship as the reason for closing but intended to keep their Colorado Springs restaurant at 162 Tracker Drive running.

“So many small businesses have closed including our Castle Rock location, where we started. Now our Colorado Springs store will be closing this Sunday, November 15th,” the Arellanos wrote on Facebook.

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The state health department shut down the Castle Rock café after a video of the packed eatery received national attention. Gov. Jared Polis said that C&C Breakfast & Korean Kitchen’s restaurant license would be revoked “indefinitely” and “probably for 30 days,” according to The Gazette’s reporting in May.

“We take the laws of our state seriously,” Polis said during a news conference after the incident. “As citizens and residents we don’t have to agree with every law … . We don’t have the ability to violate laws and threaten others.”

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The Arellanos’ Facebook post blamed Polis and health restrictions for the collapse of small businesses.

They also said they see the closure as a next chapter of their business, not the end of it.

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Jesse Arellano hands a breakfast burrito to his friend and regular, Robert Taylor, from the front door of his restaurant,  on May 11, 2020. Arellano and his wife, April, opened their restaurant for Mother’s Day and at times had a packed crowd. When video from the eatery went viral, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis ordered the restaurant to be closed for 30 days for a license review for posing a public health hazard. The owners later said they were closing for good because of sales and staffing restrictions.
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