Wolfgang Puck Grand Café at Disney Springs is set to close, laying off 193 workers in the process.
- Wolfgang Puck Grand Cafe to close in August
- 193 workers will be laid off
- Levy Restaurants recently closed Portobello
Chicago-based Levy Restaurants Inc., which operates the restaurant and other restaurants at Walt Disney World, filed the layoff notice.
Layoffs will take place between Aug. 1-15, according to the notice.
Wolfgang Puck Grand Café opened 20 years ago at the then-named Downtown Disney. There’s also Wolfgang Puck Express located in the Marketplace area of Disney Springs.
Last month, the Disney Parks Blog announced a new Wolfgang Puck restaurant — Wolfgang Puck Bar & Grill — would open in the Town Center area of Disney Springs by 2018. It will “capture the essence of laid-back California dining made popular by Puck at Spago,” Puck’s flagship restaurant.
In April, Levy Restaurants closed one of its other Disney Springs restaurants, Portobello Country Italian Trattoria, to make way for a new Italian restaurant concept.
This is part of a multimillion-dollar Disney Springs redesign, with new restaurants, shops and other entertainment options.
Levy Restaurants offered the following statement:
"We take pride in having some of the hardest-working employees in the restaurant and foodservice industry. While our work at Wolfgang Puck Grand Cafe is coming to an end, we strive to continue our relationship with all team members. Everyone has been encouraged to reapply to work at one of our other properties."