{"id":358286,"date":"2026-06-12T19:55:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T19:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/358286\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T19:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T19:55:15","slug":"horn-barbecue-in-fresno-closed-just-months-after-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/358286\/","title":{"rendered":"Horn Barbecue in Fresno closed just months after opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Matt Horn opened Horn Barbecue at Granite Park at Cedar and Dakota Avenues in Fresno in January.<\/p>\n<p>FOX26 was there ahead of the <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/fresno-welcomes-back-local-chef-who-is-opening-his-celebrated-barbecue-restaurant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">grand opening on January 20th<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The smiles didn&#8217;t last long, however, because just two months later, the restaurant&#8217;s employees were complaining about not being paid.<\/p>\n<p>Santino Capps, a sophomore at Fresno State, <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/fresno-horn-barbecue-faces-wage-complaints-two-months-after-opening\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said her first paycheck bounced<\/a>. They gave her cash, but then it kept happening.<\/p>\n<p>According to the California Department of Industrial Relations, Capps is not alone.<\/p>\n<p>Horn Barbecue has had 11 claims filed against it across its Oakland, Sacramento, and Fresno locations.<\/p>\n<p>Then, on Thursday, an eviction notice was posted at the business, stating Horn must vacate by next Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>FOX26 News reached out to the public relations firm for Horn Barbecue, but we have not heard back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Matt Horn opened Horn Barbecue at Granite Park at Cedar and Dakota Avenues in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-358286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}