The Island Wing Company at 360 Bartram Market Drive owes more than $1 million to creditors and nearly $80,000 in unpaid Florida sales taxes covering January through May after its operating company, Bartram Park IWC LLC, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Thursday, Aug. 6, according to the St. Johns Citizen.

The restaurant remains open.

The filing marks the second bankruptcy in five weeks for franchisee Shane Powers. A separate company he controls filed for Chapter 11 protection for the Island Wing location on Southside Boulevard in Jacksonville in early July, the Citizen reported.

MidFlorida Credit Union holds the largest claim against the Bartram operating company: nearly $1.26 million for equipment, fixtures and improvements. About $1.17 million of that debt is listed as unsecured, according to court filings.

The company also reported $43,800 in unpaid rent, roughly $112,000 owed to food supplier US Foods (partially secured by $25,000 in food and alcohol inventory), about $41,100 to payroll services company ADP, $31,354 in franchise royalties and $19,459 for cleaning supplies.

Bartram Park IWC LLC entered bankruptcy owing wages and payroll taxes to employees. A federal judge authorized the company to pay those obligations to workers who remain employed, though the court order does not disclose how much was owed.

Powers described the timing as strategic, using the slower summer months to restructure before football season and the holidays, according to the Jacksonville Business Journal on Aug. 18.

The wing restaurant, known for baked rather than fried chicken wings, opened at Bartram Market in 2022. Powers launched his first Northeast Florida location on Southside Boulevard in 2020, added a Fleming Island restaurant in March 2025 and opened a $3.2 million Tamaya location later that year, according to the Jacksonville Business Journal.

The Fleming Island location closed in June after less than 15 months in business.

The bankruptcies apply only to the Southside and Bartram operations. The Tamaya restaurant remains open and has not been identified as a debtor in either case.

The St. Johns Citizen reported it reached out to Powers' attorney for comment but had not received a response as of Aug. 13.