{"id":373268,"date":"2026-06-24T17:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T17:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/373268\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T17:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T17:47:10","slug":"fact-brief-is-san-joses-original-joes-closing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/373268\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact Brief: Is San Jose\u2019s Original Joe\u2019s closing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769020570_518_factBriefImage.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Original Joe\u2019s, located downtown at the intersection of South First Street and San Carlos Boulevard, is not closing, despite reports and online speculation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Although one news outlet reported during the restaurant 70th anniversary that the family said, \u201cThey\u2019re ready to pass the torch,\u201d Joe\u2019s co-owner Brad Rocca said he has no plans to sell. But his family \u201chopes to land a buyer that\u2019s ready to keep its traditions alive\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Further driving the confusion, media outlet SFist wrote an article the following day speculating about the San Jose restaurant\u2019s future. It pointed to the possibility of being purchased by other, unrelated Original Joe\u2019s restaurants found in San Francisco, Marin and elsewhere in the Bay Area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On May 27, San Jose Original Joe\u2019s posted on its Facebook page to stamp down further rumors and speculation: No, Original Joe\u2019s in San Jose is not closing and is not up for sale.<\/p>\n<p>This fact brief is responsive to conversations such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/SanJose\/comments\/1tp0eys\/after_70_years_original_joes_owners_look_to_sell\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this one<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>San Jos\u00e9 Spotlight partners with <a href=\"https:\/\/gigafact.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Gigafact<\/a> to produce fact briefs \u2014 bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. Read our <a href=\"https:\/\/gigafact.org\/guidelines-principles-and-methodologies\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">methodology<\/a> to learn how we check claims.<\/p>\n<p>Sources<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No. Original Joe\u2019s, located downtown at the intersection of South First Street and San Carlos Boulevard, is not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-373268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373268","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=373268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}