Batavia Honey-Jam Cafe to reopen

The Honey-Jam Cafe restaurant at 525 N. Randall Road in Batavia will reopen next month.

"The restaurant is scheduled to reopen the third or fourth week of November. We received a tremendous amount of feedback from disappointed customers after it was closed, so we worked on getting a brand-new management team together and will soon be ready to reopen," said Patty Sullivan, executive assistant to Dick Portillo, of the Portillo Restaurant Group.

The restaurant closed in November 2013, after three years. It is next to a Portillo's restaurant. The site used to be a Bennigan's restaurant, until that chain closed most of its company-owned restaurants during bankruptcy in 2008.

At the time of the closing, Sullivan was quoted in some news reports as attributing the closing to the restaurant's costs related to its competition's, including those it expected to experience as the Affordable Health Care Act went in to effect. Thursday, Sullivan did not answer a question as to what, if anything, had changed in regard to those costs, or the competition.

The Batavia location was one of three Honey-Jam Cafes. The other two, in Bolingbrook and Downers Grove, remained open.