Jackson Jambalaya

That really sucks!! I wonder who is next😞

Pay up or close down!
Looks like they chose the latter.
If only they paid a living wage!

The days of making millions by exploiting your food service workers are over!

If you are in Lamunba’s city and think people will eat food that is poisinous, you can expect closures. BTW, Ridgeland and Madison restaurants and drive throughs seem to be doing fine.,

7:11 doesn’t have a clue

The only restaurants that will be left will be McDonald's.

7:11 I'm sure they are all happy to be unemployed.

Next-

They added a 20 % tip to take out orders.They deserve to go out of business..

So? Waffle House automatically adds 10%

Latham and Roberts need to take it over again

I liked their food. What a shame.

Babalu was pretty good back in the day. After new management took over the quality just went downhill. The cheap looking renovation didn’t help either.

Portions were too small and it wasn't that good anyway.

You sucked. Please don’t come to the burbs

The guys who started this place got their investments out first, then put the company in bankruptcy, resulting in investor losses of 100%.

From a 20+% tipper, if anyone AUTOMATICALLY adds ANY tip amount without me saying so, is AUTOMATICALLY out of my go-to food service provider. You have to "earn" it... it ain't automatic.

NOT GONNA BE GOING THERE AGAIN. GET A GRIP.

@8:52
They didn’t just get their investment, they made a few million and then ran the restaurant into bankruptcy. They exploited everyone they could possibly get away with.

I think the same people who “support” sleazy restaurant owners are the same midwits who voice their cop bootlicker nonsense.

Ok the first few years…plates were always dirty; glasses were good until recently. Nothing was ever clean.

“ Latham and Roberts need to take it over again”. Hell no! I think they still have something to do with Table 100. I always ask for a foam cup and a carry out plate because the plates and glasses are NASTY. Please CLEAN!!!!!!

7:11 PM
In the coming recession we'll find out who is really worth $15 an hour. A lot of them aren't.

9:26 PM
The real midwits are the ones like you who think jacking up the prices won't cause people to eat out less and places won't close down. Especially in Mississippi. You know a place where people don't have a lot of disposable income. A real midwit thinks Jackson isn't run by corrupt Democrats. That's you.

What's Next??

A wig store where Maison Weiss use to be? God help us all...

Good job Lumumba
You complete idiot. This is on you asshole
Lumumba should be banned from entering any food establishment in Jackson. Jeff… tell him no thanks when he darkens the door at broad street.

@9:58
The potential food and energy shortage riots of 2023 are going to make 2020 look downright peaceful in comparison. 2023 is shaping up to be the worst year in several generations.

Hahahahaha!!!! 😂😂😂

Ten years plus is a good run for a restaurant.

Cracker Barrel is next. Still haven’t Re-opened.

Well I loved Babalu and never had a bad experience there. And I thought the renovation was wonderful. I will miss it!

Knoxville and Birmingham locations closed early during the pandemic (like a week or two in—so obviously losing money well before)—despite pretty good business at the one in Knoxville. Knoxville is then re-opened in another location under new management this year.

I think the parent company went bankrupt back in 2019 and was purchased.

Basically, I’m sure the water situation didn’t help but it’s not a chain that seems to have been run well over the years.

Get real.. this isn’t a Jackson vs. burbs thing like you guys try to always make it. That place has been trash for a while now.

I get my baby tacos at the Bell…cheaper and no tip. Take em home and eat them w a Nattie Lite. I don’t get lead poisoning from the water or mugged in the parking lot. You yuppie leftists in Fondren crack me up.

Heard that they closed abruptly while orders were still out. Any truth to that?

Yet I'm sure it got millions in PPP Welfare checks, along with our weekly restaurant I Love Me columnist who pleaded poverty, as well as money from that same guy's Restaurant Welfare Check program under RINO Roger Wicker, right?

All "forgiven" taxpayer bailouts.

No means tests for them, but God forbid a student loan bailout goes to someone or an actually poor kid gets a "free lunch." Then the RINOs wail about "Look, he's getting tax money!!!"

Off to the Welfare Money Volleyball and Football stadium brought to us by Football HasBeens and RINOs.

And, natch, they, like a certain "You're Fired" Bidnessman, took advantage of bankruptcy bailouts as well.

Untaxed inheritances and tax credits and bailouts- our Southern feudal system for frat boy welfare. SMH.

I was there when they shut down. Our waitress came and told us the dept of health had shut them down and they had just been told they were all fired. Have is 30 min to get to go boxes and pay, such a weird experience! Anyone else know more?

I am surprised that it stayed open this long. I quit dining there years ago due to very poor service, average food, and small servings.

Brandon would welcome you with open arms!!

Just waiting on the Cracker Barrel to close so I can open up my new restaurant. "Patriot Burger". It's time to bring some American values back to Jackson. :)

Well, if you ran it as well as you ran that med marijuana initiative in Ridgeland, it will never open. How much fraud did you commit, again? Half your signatures were outside of Ridgeland. You forged other signatures. Do I need to keep going?

The owner of babalou and table 100 live in Jackson and they do support the city. Issue is this. Too pricy for Latin food and drinks were expensive and staff was horrible
Water issues were mail in coffin

Poor service and poor quality of food will not fly long in Jackson's environment. Such an establishment might survive in the more upscale areas of Rankin and Madison where the surroundings are more inviting, but not Jackson. It's much like New Orleans, there are places that you would never go unless the food was great. Bad food, no chance.

I’m in New Mexico, 9:09. I heard that 10:33 smack from here.

You might want to get that looked at.

Never been there. Won't miss it.

@10:33
Shut the fuck white boy didn’t nobody ask you

I’ve eaten a lot of “Latin” food and my preference is for those fajita plates that are piled high with peppers, chicken, steak, shrimp, and chorizo delivered on a sizzling cast iron plate. Babalu’s didn’t serve that so I never returned.

No. Was not referring to Babalu.

Sad to hear. Come to Madison or Rankin. The avocado burger was the best burger in town!

Bill Latham is a superb human.

He’s provided the highest quality food and atmospheres for decades.

We are lucky to have had him and his biz partner.

Thanks for all your hard work.

Go play more golf and enjoy

Latham was forced out by his foolish partners months and months ago. They were expanding too quickly and he tried to slow them down. They got ticked and voted/bought him OUT of the partnership. Soon thereafter, Bill was proven correct and the partnership filed for bankruptcy. With him gone, the product and brand collapsed. He sold all of his interests except Table 100 and the new Lakeland Drive Chicken and Custard place.

The food was underwhelming and overpriced for what you got - the atmosphere too loud and the restaurant was not the cleanest. Surprised they lasted as long as they did…