Nick the Greek celebrates its grand opening Tuesday, July 15 in Laguna Niguel.
The restaurant, which is joining the busy Costco-anchored shopping center off La Paz Road, is going big, offering free lunch from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
The menu features traditional Greek fare, including pitas, entrees, salads and sides and desserts.
The restaurant was founded in 2014 by cousins Big Nick, Little Nick and Baby Nick. In addition to California, it has locations in Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Kansas, Texas and Missouri. The Laguna Niguel eatery is the brand’s sixth in Orange County.
Address: 27221 La Paz Road, Suite E.
Burlington opens in Garden Grove
The bargain retailer Burlington Stores is opening July 25 in Garden Grove.
The store takes the place of a shuttered Party City at 9661 Chapman Ave.
Burlington touts prices up to 60% off other retailers’ prices on brand name merchandise, which includes clothing, housewares, accessories, shoes and more.
The new addition in Garden Grove brings the store count in California to 114.
Medical facility opens in San Clemente
Providence Mission Hospital recently opened a multispecialty medical facility in San Clemente.
The 12,000-square-foot facility, which provides primary, specialty and urgent care services provided by partner Mission Heritage Medical Group, is just off the 5 freeway near the Outlets at San Clemente.
The center offers a multispecialty clinic, an imaging center and walk-in urgent care services staffed by Providence Mission Heritage physician partners.
Address: 395 W. Avenida Vista Hermosa.
Urgent care is open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Friday and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. Phone: 949-304-2116.
Honda Center hiring
The entertainment hub within the Honda Center is hiring a host of positions in food and beverage categories and operations.
Open positions include cooks, attendants, hosts and server assistants with wages between $19 and $22 hourly. Other jobs in janitor, parking and public safety departments also are available with hourly wages between $21 and $25 dollars.
For more information on the jobs and others not listed, go to ocvibe.com/jobs. Applicants also can email a resume and cover letter to jobs@ocvibe.com
New hotel near Joshua Tree
Reset Hotel opens July 21 in Twentynine Palms, not far from the north entrance of Joshua Tree National Park.
The hotel, which sits on 180 acres, was built using modular building methods in order to reduce its impact on the environment with a shorter construction phase.
Features include 65 guest rooms, each with patios and stove fire pits; a clubhouse with co-working space, café, retail and a communal fire pit; a bistro offering seasonal fare; a 1,000-square-foot salt water pool and jacuzzi; saunas, cold plunges, yoga and other desert-inspired programming.
Room rates, according to a search Friday, run from $175 nightly up to $457 (high seasons and holidays), depending on the days booked.
The hotel was co-founded by HP Investors in San Diego-based, entrepreneur Adam Wininger, and designer Benjamin Uyeda.
Address: 7000 Split Rock Ave., Twentynine Palms. To see more, go to stayreset.com
On the move
Rich Gripp at California Faucets was recently promoted to vice president of Accounting and Finance at the Huntington Beach company. He joined the company in early 2023 from Newlight Technologies, starting as director of Finance. Gripp also was director of Finance at Newlight, and before that, American Woodmark/RSI Corp.
Dr. Gary E. Deng, a specialist in integrative medicine, is the new director of the Integrative Oncology Program at the UCI Health Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. The new center operates in partnership with the Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute. Deng, who spent nearly two decades at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, said his goal at UCI Health is to help patients achieve “the best outcomes by improving their mental, physical and spiritual well-being in their fight against cancer.”
Attorney Shayne Wulterin recently joined the law firm Kahana Field in Irvine as a partner in the General Liability and Construction Defect practice groups. His move to Kahana also brought to the firm a team of 14 other attorneys and paralegals from Ford, Walker, Haggerty & Behar. His specialty is general liability cases involving catastrophic loss, professional liability, premises liability, malpractice and negligence.
Brian Schaefgen is the new chief financial officer at the Orange County Community Foundation. Previously, he was CFO at Bellingham Marine, Bellwether Financial Group and 5 Bars. Schaefgen has also served as a board member, treasurer and committee member fornonprofit organizations including ForKids, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Orange County and Families Forward.
Coming up
Make-A-Wish Orange County and the Inland Empire will host their fifth annual Pickleball for Wishes tournament from 2-7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 2 at the Tennis and Pickleball Club at Newport Beach. Proceeds benefit the Make-A-Wish program, which grants wishes forchildren suffering from critical illnesses. For more information and to register, go to PickleballForWishes.org.
Good works
Team members at SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union participated on June 11 in an annual Development Education (DE) Day of Service, volunteering at Second Harvest Food Bank’s Harvest Solutions Farm in Irvine. They and other volunteer groups from the region harvested 6,000 pounds of fresh produce, which was delivered throughout the county to college food pantries, senior centers, homeless shelters and other community groups.
Milestones
Cassi Hallam, the chief marketing officer at System Pavers in Santa Ana was honored recently with the Green Industry Pros, Women in the Industry “Unsung Hero” award for 2025. Hallam earned the distinction because of her “significant contributions” at the company, where she leads a team of more than 100 associates in brand, digital, field marketing and contact center operations. She joined the firm in 2019.
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