Outside of Super Mega Bien, which is on the ground floor of The Ramble Hotel in RiNo. (Max Scheinblum/BusinessDen)
Two former owners of a RiNo Latin restaurant say they haven’t been paid in full after selling the spot for $400,000 three years ago.
Anthony Maciag and Tabatha Knop, who opened Super Mega Bien in 2018 alongside Dana Rodriguez, claim in a recent lawsuit that current owner Jennifer Mena-Wenstrom breached their purchase agreement and owes $49,000, plus interest, to each of them.
Maciag and Knop sued in the hopes of getting paid. Rodriguez, the chef behind Work & Class and Casa Bonita, is not involved in the lawsuit. She declined to comment.
Mena-Wenstrom and her husband Victor Mena, who is not named as a defendant in the suit, bought the restaurant at 1260 25th St. in December 2022, court documents show.
The couple paid Maciag, Knop and Rodriguez $135,000 total at the time, and agreed to pay off the remaining $265,000 in monthly installments over the next three years, with interest accumulating at 6% annually. That interest rate was to increase to 12% in the case of default, according to the lawsuit.
Mena-Wenstrom chipped away at some of that sum, according to Maciag and Knop. But they alleged she hasn’t paid them since July 31, 2024.
The two could not be reached for comment through their attorneys, Jeffrey M. Lippa and Jessica P. Marsh, both of Williams Weese Pepple & Ferguson.
Mena and Mena-Wenstrom declined to comment. They have yet to file a response to the lawsuit.
Rodriguez, Maciag and Knop sold Super Mega Bien to the Menas in part because Maciag and Knop were retiring, Rodriguez told Restaurant Hospitality in early 2024.
“I chose Victor because he has been with me for 20 years and helped me open all the restaurants,” Rodriguez said at the time.
“We come from the same place in Mexico and developed similar ideas,” she said. “When I leave him in charge of Super Mega, he doesn’t even call me to ask the questions, he knows my answers. That’s how good we work together.”
Outside of Super Mega Bien, which is on the ground floor of The Ramble Hotel in RiNo. (Max Scheinblum/BusinessDen)
Two former owners of a RiNo Latin restaurant say they haven’t been paid in full after selling the spot for $400,000 three years ago.
Anthony Maciag and Tabatha Knop, who opened Super Mega Bien in 2018 alongside Dana Rodriguez, claim in a recent lawsuit that current owner Jennifer Mena-Wenstrom breached their purchase agreement and owes $49,000, plus interest, to each of them.
Maciag and Knop sued in the hopes of getting paid. Rodriguez, the chef behind Work & Class and Casa Bonita, is not involved in the lawsuit. She declined to comment.
Mena-Wenstrom and her husband Victor Mena, who is not named as a defendant in the suit, bought the restaurant at 1260 25th St. in December 2022, court documents show.
The couple paid Maciag, Knop and Rodriguez $135,000 total at the time, and agreed to pay off the remaining $265,000 in monthly installments over the next three years, with interest accumulating at 6% annually. That interest rate was to increase to 12% in the case of default, according to the lawsuit.
Mena-Wenstrom chipped away at some of that sum, according to Maciag and Knop. But they alleged she hasn’t paid them since July 31, 2024.
The two could not be reached for comment through their attorneys, Jeffrey M. Lippa and Jessica P. Marsh, both of Williams Weese Pepple & Ferguson.
Mena and Mena-Wenstrom declined to comment. They have yet to file a response to the lawsuit.
Rodriguez, Maciag and Knop sold Super Mega Bien to the Menas in part because Maciag and Knop were retiring, Rodriguez told Restaurant Hospitality in early 2024.
“I chose Victor because he has been with me for 20 years and helped me open all the restaurants,” Rodriguez said at the time.
“We come from the same place in Mexico and developed similar ideas,” she said. “When I leave him in charge of Super Mega, he doesn’t even call me to ask the questions, he knows my answers. That’s how good we work together.”
