Yesterday the assets of the company were auctioned off, and Cibus Holdings, the largest creditor, wound up the holding the Pickle. No matter what happens next -- and Cibus will likely take over running the chain, Penny Parker reports in the Denver Post, it's a sad end to a promising start.
Says Mantonat:
The only thing that mattered to me is that Spicy Pickle used to have the best sandwiches in Denver and they became mediocre almost overnight. A shame for sandwich lovers as well as for all the employees who are out jobs.
Yesterday Laura Shunk served up some of the lessons that would-be entrepreneurs could learn from the ">Colorado-based chains -- good and bad. But Kevin Morrison, one of the Spicy Pickle's founders who left in 2009 when he didn't like the way the company was heading, put it best: "When you have people who aren't businesspeople or restaurant people trying to run a restaurant company, the writing's on the wall."
Can the Spicy Pickle be saved?
