Will Makoski wanted to move to Colorado from Chicago but didn’t want to leave the cafe he’d worked at for the past 17 years.

“The company felt that it was ready. I spoke up and said, ‘Hey, this has always been a dream of mine, and I think we could do really well there.’ I probably go to Colorado once a year,” Makoski said.

In February, the 40-year-old will open Egg Harbor’s first two Colorado locations, one in the DTC at 7222 E. Layton Ave., and the other in Highlands Ranch, at 9579 S. University Blvd. The breakfast and lunch spot has been around since 1985 in Chicago, with recent expansions into Georgia and Wisconsin, also driven by employees.

“As we started to get bigger and bigger, we started to encounter more employees that were either coming to us and saying, ‘An Egg Harbor would b

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