CSBJ: Springs Orleans might expand to both coasts

Published in the Colorado Springs Business Journal | August 16, 2012 | Written by Amanda Miller

Springs Orleans head breakfast chef Joey “Moonfish” Duplessis serves up the dishes that have attracted national attention.

Downtown restaurant Springs Orleans could soon become the flagship of a new national chain.
Owner Perry Sanders said he didn’t go out looking for opportunities to expand to new locations, but when opportunity came knocking, he opened the door.

It started when an investment group from the Atlanta area came courting him a couple months ago. They want a Cajun restaurant for their development in the popular Buckhead area outside downtown Atlanta. They were getting ready to sign papers with a chain based in Louisiana when someone among their ranks who had been to the Colorado Springs restaurant stopped them.

“They were raving about the restaurant,” Sanders said. “And even though it’s in Colorado, the group wanted to check it out.”

He said a representative visited and spent days eating the food.

In the end, Sanders said the culinary scout told him it’s wasn’t even a close call. They wanted Springs Orleans, which is part of Sanders’ Mining Exchange Hotel.

“They said we want to deal with you if you want to deal with us — and I said, ‘Oh yes, I want to,’” Sanders said.

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