Hawthorne was previously featured on the CBS reality television show Undercover Boss in 2016. Still, his death was mourned by many including former employees, colleagues and Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness. He was in debt, faced tax liens in excess of $150,000, and a class-action lawsuit. Lowell Hawthorne was found dead of suicide on December 2, 2017, aged 57, inside a Golden Krust factory in the Bronx. As of 2005, Nine brothers and sisters are involved in the family business In 2016 there were a total 11 Hawthornes: Milton, Omar, Daren, Haywood, Lorraine, Lowell, Marcia, Herma, Velma, Lorna, and Monique. Hawthorne came to New York in 1981 and graduated from Bronx Community College before working as an accountant with the New York Police Department for nine years. The parent company later became involved in the financial services industry. Jamaica's ambassador to the United States was present for the opening of the chain's fifth store in Atlanta, Georgia in 2009. To open its first restaurant, the Hawthorne family, according to Business Opportunities Journal pooled $107,000, "using the Jamaican concept of susu, whereby everyone pitched in $100 a week to raise start-up money after banks refused them a loan." restaurant in 1989 on Gun Hill Road in the Bronx. Ephraim's son Lowell Hawthorne, Golden Krust's former President and CEO, opened the first U.S. Golden Krust's origins trace back to a 50-year-old bakery owned by Ephraim Hawthorne in Saint Andrew, Jamaica, that claims to serve family recipes. and was featured on the CBS reality television show Undercover Boss in 2016. The company also distributes food products to retailers, schools and prisons, is considered the foremost Jamaican business in the U.S. It is New York City's largest locally-owned restaurant chain. The majority of the restaurants are situated in New York. states: New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Florida, Maryland, North Carolina, Massachusetts, and Texas. There are over 100 Golden Krust restaurants operating in ten U.S. The parent company is owned by the Hawthorne family, and the stores are franchised. is a Caribbean fast casual restaurant operator and manufacturer of Caribbean cuisine including Jamaican food, Jamaican patty, and other baked goods. Jamaican food, Jamaican patty, Caribbean cuisine, Baked goods, Jerk chicken, OxtailĪn interior of a Golden Krust restaurant The exterior of a Golden Krust restaurant in North York, Ontario, Canada
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