Biker Jim: “It just kind of reminds me of a Western TV show. It looks like the real thing, but if you look behind the walls, you just see an empty space.”
Jim Pittenger poses for a portrait with his Harley-Davidson motorcycle in front of Biker Jim’s Gourmet Dogs restaurant in Denver on Tuesday, July 2, 2024. Jim Pittenger pulled up to Biker Jim’s Gourmet Dogs on his 10-year-old Harley Davidson last Tuesday, parked and walked through the front door. But instead of the usual exchange of greetings with employees, he said he felt “like a stranger in his own home.
After relinquishing control of Biker Jim’s to a former friend during the pandemic, Pittenger said the issues that followed, including aAnthony Bourdain once proclaimed he “had reached the mountaintop” after visiting Biker Jim’s food cart in 2009. Two years later, Pittenger opened the Larimer Street restaurant and he continued to garner praise, feeding Susan Feniger an elk jalapeño cheddar bratwurst with Coca-Cola-braised onions and cream cheese on the Food Network’s “The Best Thing I Ever Ate,” and keeping it weird for “Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmerman.” Most recently, Biker Jim’s got a shoutout on Netflix’s “Fresh, Fried & Crispy” series in 2021.
Soulakis confirmed the deal with The Denver Post and said EATC’s primary focus is currently Biker Jim’s. He declined to discuss the details of the disagreement with Pittenger, however. “On top of not knowing what I was actually being paid, I got fed up with the fact that scheduling was a hot mess; they were changing Jim’s recipes and putting out subpar product; they were cutting corners wherever they could; and there was just an overall lack of passion and care,” Greer said.
The final straw for Pittenger was when he saw a letter from Kroenke Sports & Entertainment in Biker Jim’s mailbox earlier this summer. Unbeknownst to him, Soulakis had signed a three-year sponsorship deal with the company, which owns Ball Arena, the Denver Nuggets, the Colorado Avalanche and other teams.
Pittenger said he held on as long as his pride could handle it but ultimately decided to walk away. “I gave away a million-dollar business and 20 years of my life for false promises and lies,” he texted Soulakis in his letter of resignation, which went unanswered. As it stands now, Biker Jim’s has kiosks at Coors Field, Red Rocks Amphitheatre and Empower Field at Mile High, as well as the restaurant at 2148 Larimer St. But that location is only open Thursday, Friday, Saturday and when the Colorado Rockies are playing at Coors Field.
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