For William Furches, getting a new Cajun seafood boil restaurant off the ground in Spokane has been something of a cultural exchange.
Yummy Crab Seafood, located at 1723 N. Division St. in a 4,000-square-foot space formerly occupied by Burger King, offers Cajun-style seafood boils along with fried menu options like hush puppies, deep-fried balls of dough made from cornmeal and seasoning.
“I’ve just learned that people up here don’t know what hush puppies are,” said Furches, one of the managers at Yummy Crab Seafood and a native North Carolinian. “That’s really nice when I go to a table and they’re like, ‘What is a hush puppy?’ ”
Yummy Crab, which started as a chain around 2019, also has locations in North Carolina, Michigan, Iowa and Illinois. Owner Lee Zhang decided to open a Spokane location upon finding that Spokane lacked the create-your-own, Cajun-flavored seafood boil experience that Yummy Crab offers, Furches said.
The Spokane location navigated a wage issue prior to opening Jan. 9, as servers were given the impression that they would only earn $4 per hour plus tips despite Washington state law, which sets minimum wage at $15.74 an hour plus tips, KREM reported. Characterizing the issue as a miscommunication that was quickly corrected, Furches said prior management had incorrectly applied a rate equivalent to what tipped employees make in other states like Idaho and North Carolina.
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