Job-seekers next week can start applying to work at HopCat, the Midtown bar-restaurant expected to open two weeks before Christmas.
Edward Cardenas posts details at CBS Detroit:
A hiring center will open Thursday, Oct. 16, at 2990 W Grand Blvd, Suite 300 in Detroit. The bar will be accepting resumes and doing interviews for the next several weeks from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Friday. . . .
“A minimum of three years experience working in a high-volume restaurant is required for bartenders, servers, and cooks,” HopCat wrote in a post on the bar’s Facebook page.
The Woodward Avenue newcomer also is looking for hosts, bussers, dishwashers, and barbacks.
Original article -- Saturday, Oct. 4:
Never mind the "November 2014" billboard atop HopCat's new Detroit site. Plan B is for beer to flow in two months.
"Put it on your calendar: HopCat opens at 11 am 12/13/14," a Facebook posts says. "it's realistic. Of course, there's always the chance that we could be cooking on a hibachi and serving beer out of the trunk of a '79 Impala."
The restaurant-bar on Woodward between Canfield and Willis will have 130 beer taps. (Facebook photo)
In the meantime, if you enjoy construction snapshots or want to imagine where tables, stools and 130 taps will be at the 11,000-square-foot building, Anjana Schroder of Crain's shares a preview with a dozen photos (at "Read More" link below).
Crain's got a look inside the highly anticipated bar in Midtown at 4265 Woodward Ave., in the former Agave restaurant space.
Like the M-1 Rail project, which will have a stop outside HopCat Detroit, progress is being made.
Midtown will be HopCat's fifth tavern since the group opened in Grand Rapids six years ago. Other locations are in Ann Arbor, East Lansing and Indianapolis.
Spot a pattern? It's not coincidence that site number five is a few blocks from Wayne State University. "We do like college areas," founder Mark Sellers tells Courtney Ochab at Eater Detroit "Both as a source of customers and a natural base of employees, servers and bartenders."
Plans include an outdoor beer garden biergarten and second-level stage for rock, jazz, bluegrass and soul bands, Ochab reports.
To show what comes out of the kitchen, here's the Ann Arbor menu.
-- Alan Stamm
