Wendy’s on Center Street in Auburn closed for renovations last month. (Sun Journal file photo)

Jeff Marshall is hoping for a reopening early next week.

He is the director of operations at Restwend LLC and overseeing the massive remodeling of the Wendy’s on Center Street in Auburn.

The reopened restaurant will have less seating but more booth space, two pickup windows, bigger, newer bathrooms with baby-changing stations added and a vastly updated kitchen, he said.

“It’s called the NGK, which is ‘new-generation kitchen,’” Marshall said. “Much more energy-efficient. We use less shortening in our fryers than we used to have to, we have a double-oven instead of cooking everything in one oven. We have a dedicated potato oven and then we have an oven for the cookies and the bacon.”

All of the employees, some of whom worked temporarily at other Wendy’s, are coming back and he’s added 10 more jobs.