Over Easy LLC Files Hawaii WARN Notice for Easy 'Que Restaurant Closure, Effective November 8, 2026

Over Easy LLC, doing business as Easy 'Que Restaurant, has filed a WARN notice in Hawaii for a closure effective November 8, 2026. The notice was filed on November 5, 2026 — three days before the effective date — and it is the newest dated WARN filing in the national registry. The worker count is unavailable in the public record.

The filing at a glance

• Employer: Over Easy LLC (DBA Easy 'Que Restaurant)
• Location: Hawaii (locality unavailable in the record)
• Event type: Closure
• Effective date: November 8, 2026
• Notice date: November 5, 2026
• Workers affected: Unavailable
• Source: Hawaii Department of Labor and Industrial Relations (labor.hawaii.gov), via the Layoff Atlas registry

The filing is an official record, filed directly with Hawaii's labor agency rather than reconstructed from a secondary report. That matters because Hawaii's WARN data is unusually thin on worker counts: of the 38 official Hawaii filings in the last 365 days, 37 have no reported worker count. The Over Easy filing follows the same pattern — the closure is documented, the headcount is not.

Three days' notice, and what that means

The gap between the November 5 notice date and the November 8 effective date is three days. That is far shorter than the 60 days' advance notice the federal WARN Act requires — but the 60-day rule only applies to covered employers, generally those with 100 or more full-time employees, and only for qualifying mass layoffs or plant closures. A single restaurant operating under one LLC is very likely below that threshold, which means the short notice period is not, on its own, evidence of a violation.

The WARN Act also has exceptions for unforeseeable business circumstances and faltering companies, though nothing in the public record states a reason for this closure. What the record does establish is the timing: workers and the state were formally notified three days before the closure takes effect.

This is also why the notice date and the effective date are different fields, and why both matter. The notice date is when the employer filed. The effective date is when the closure takes effect. In this case, the two are nearly the same — and for the workers involved, the practical difference is the three days between them.

Hawaii's numbers, in context

Hawaii's WARN archive holds 510 non-cancelled imported notices reporting 720 workers affected in total. In 2026 so far, the state has 39 notices reporting 720 workers — all of this year's reported workers come from a small number of counted filings, while most notices carry no count at all. Across the full archive, 504 of 510 notices have unavailable worker counts.

That makes Hawaii one of the hardest states to read in the registry. The state has seven notices with future effective dates, and the recent ones cluster at year-end: HCI 415 Nahua Owner, effective December 31, 2026; Centene Management Company, effective January 4, 2027; Alaska Airlines, effective December 31, 2026; and DFS Group, effective December 31, 2026. Dole Food Company Hawaii has a filing effective November 30, 2026. Most of these, like Over Easy, report no worker count.

The one counted 2026 Hawaii filing of note is Laie Water Company, with four workers. The larger counted Hawaii filings from earlier in the year — First Insurance Company of Hawaii (212 workers), Ali'i Health Center (140), and the Good Samaritan Society's Pohai Nani facility (185) — all took effect October 1, 2026. The pattern is consistent: Hawaii's counted filings are few, and its uncounted filings are many.

The national picture

Nationally, the registry's 90-day window holds 706 notices reporting 65,134 workers, with 31 counts unavailable, as of November 7, 2026. California leads the states with 21,514 reported workers, followed by Washington at 17,411, Illinois at 3,548, Texas at 2,750, and Virginia at 2,546.

The week now underway, the week of November 7, has 4,155 workers scheduled. The heaviest week ahead is the week of November 14, with 8,510 workers scheduled, followed by the weeks of November 21 (6,925), November 28 (6,063), and December 12 (3,755). The week of December 5 is the lightest on the six-week calendar, at 1,090 workers.

How to read a filing like this

A WARN notice is a reported plan, not a confirmed job loss. The Over Easy filing says a closure is planned for November 8. It does not say how many people worked at the restaurant, whether any were transferred or rehired, or whether the closure is permanent. An unavailable worker count is a gap in the public record, not a zero — the workers exist, they just are not counted in the published data.

For workers at small employers, that gap is the norm rather than the exception. Most WARN coverage focuses on large filings because large filings produce numbers. A three-day notice for a small restaurant closure is the kind of event that barely registers in the totals, and it is also the kind of event where the 60-day notice period — the protection the WARN Act is best known for — usually does not apply at all.

Data source: Layoff Atlas