For those who cannot read the article, here is what it says:
If you’re one of the legions of people who grieved when
the popular Earl of Sandwich restaurantclosed in June at Downtown Disney, well, guess what?
The website for the Earl of Sandwich’s parent company has just posted numerous job openings for its old location in Downtown Disney.
The shell of the Earl of Sandwich restaurant is still in its old location at 1565 S. Disneyland Drive. That’s the address listed for the jobs available.
The spokeswoman for the Planet Hollywood chain, which owns Earl of Sandwich as well as the Buca di Beppo chain, was getting on an airplane Tuesday afternoon and not immediately available to comment.
Could this mean that the restaurant is going to reopen until things are sorted out with the moribund Downtown Disney hotel project? Plans to build a luxury hotel were
put on hold in August, after a dispute between Disney and the city of Anaheim over whether the city would provide promised tax rebates. There’s no published announcement about when the project might resume, although some people believe it will be after the November election, when Disney might get an Anaheim City Council that looks more favorably on its needs and requests than the current council.
Today’s council majority has been responding to complaints from residents that the city kowtows too much to the Walt Disney Co. and provides too many tax breaks. Disney recently responded by
offering to tear up its tax break agreements with the city — which would have the added benefit for Disney of making the company no longer a target of a ballot measure to raise the minimum wage in Anaheim.
Meanwhile, Disney has not said publicly lately what might happen to the hotel project, located at
the western end of Downtown Disney, where the closed restaurants including Earl of Sandwich, Rainforest Cafe and ESPN Zone are located. Disney has brought in food trucks each afternoon to help provide meals for hungry diners.
Asked if the Earl of Sandwich would be reopening, Disney officials said only that they were considering a number of options for the site but declined to comment further.
I actually had already heard a rumor about this and have just been anxiously waiting for some sort of confirmation.
