A Worker-Owned ‘People’s Restaurant’ Is Coming to Fishermen’s Terminal—
Zach and Seth Pacleb are the kind of people who seem destined to own a restaurant. They remember visiting their Filipina grandmother in Hawaii, where she’d “have her old lady friends around the table rolling lumpia,” says Seth. When they flew home, they’d bring a huge bag stuffed with the spring rolls, feeling “super stoked.”
It’s taken years, but the Paclebs are now poised to open a brick-and-mortar restaurant and bottle shop in the former Highliner Public House space at Fishermen’s Terminal. And Pidgin Cooperative won’t just be a restaurant, but a worker-owned restaurant, one that aims to provide stable, long-term jobs and serve sustainable, locally grown food.
“We want to move away from everything that every person that we’ve ever worked with, more or less, has lamented about this industry,” says Zach.
