Baja 600? ‘We’re out of there, man’ (updated)

Update (1:30 p.m. Aug. 12): The employees at the shuttered Baja 600 restaurant were given their walking papers Tuesday, according to Sam, a waiter who requested that we not use his real name. Sam had worked for the restaurant (“I made damn good money there,” he says) for 19 months and said he was continually told by his manager that the venue would remain open even though it had been operating without a liquor license for the last 30 days.

“When customers would walk in and hear that they couldn’t get a margarita or a cocktail with their dinner,” Sam said, “80 percent of them would simply turn around and walk out. Every week we would be told, ‘Next week we’ll have our liquor license again,’ and every week nothing happened — except our tips dried up.”