White Fence Farm is being put out to pasture.
The popular family-friendly restaurant with animals, live music, games, a year-round Christmas shop and more will close on December 30 after 35 years of serving up mouth-watering chicken, according to Westword.
“We have been operating at a net monthly loss for a considerable amount of time,” owner Craig Caldwell told the alt-weekly. “Efforts to create a profitable operation were not successful, and we can no longer operate in this capacity.”
[related]This isn’t the first closure for the fried chicken favorite. In February, White Fence Farm closed its satellite locations.
“We found that with all the competition of the new restaurants that have opened in the last few years, as well as all the food delivery services, that the carry-outs were not taking off like we expected. We are focusing back on the main farm and hoping to do another concept down the road,” Whitney Carloss, general manager of Lakewood’s White Fence Farm, wrote in an email to us in February.
Caldwell and Tom Piercy purchased White Fence Farm a few years ago.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
White Fence Farm: 6263 W. Jewell Ave., Lakewood, 303-935-5945; whitefencefarmco.com
