Cool Cat Cafe and its neighboring restaurant Captain Jack’s Island Grill owned by Sean Corpuel and household had been burnt to the bottom within the August Maui wildfires.
Corpuel requested for the neighborhood of San Luis Obispo to assist increase money for his employees who misplaced their jobs and homes in Lahaina.
The Slo neighborhood jumped into motion developing with practically $200,000 which is being distributed among the many 120 staff who labored on the Maui eating places.
Now Corpuel is opening a Cool Cat Cafe in Kihei, Maui which is round 40 minutes from Lahaina.
The new restaurant is anticipated to be up and operating by February and a few employees have been serving to to get the restaurant began.
“Bringing our staff over there…they’re excited to get back to work. A lot of them have been there helping clean stuff up and getting ready,” Corpuel stated.
Alex Rames labored as a chef at Captain Jack’s Island Grill in Lahaina earlier than it and every part else he owned burned to the bottom.
He moved to California to work as a chef on the Cool Cat Cafe in Pismo Beach.
Rames plans to assist open the restaurant in February after which come again to work in Pismo Beach.
“I’m so happy to have a new restaurant in Maui. I might go back to help over there for a little bit. I’m very happy everyone is getting back to work in Maui…all my friends who live there,” Rames stated.
Workers in Maui are excited to have the ability to be with their work households once more.
“Some of them have permanent locations, some of them don’t, some are still transitioning out of hotels or temporary short-term rentals, so it will be nice to get a little bit of normalcy back where they can go in and have a place to call home,” Corpuel stated.
Corpuel stated they’re nonetheless on the lookout for a place for Captain Jacks in Maui and so they hope that after they open the Cool Cat Cafe in Kihei, they will begin on the lookout for a brand new location for Captain Jack’s.
