Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Cafe di Napoli closes in Minneapolis - Business First of Buffalo:

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The restaurant was on the Skywayy retail level of a condo and officer building at the cornerr of Marquette Avenue and SouthSixtgh Street. It was owned by developer Larry Abdo, principal of Anxon the company that ownsthe building. Abdo said he’ws very close to finishing a deal with a new restauranft tenant that is interested in the spacw and he could make an announcement in the next few Cafe Di Napoli originally opened in 1938 on Hennepimn Avenue and operated therefor years. In 2005, the lack of lunchj patrons prompted the former Joe Piazza, .
Then in 2007, two of Joe’s David and Nancy Piazza, in the skywagy level of Abdo’s condo project, also known as 6 In late 2008, Abdo acquireds the restaurant. “I bought it knowing that unless it was an enormousz home run that we would probably not be inthat business, so we’ve been looking for someone to take the spac e over.” Abdo and his wife went on their firstf date at Cafe Di Napoli so he said he had an emotionak attachment to it. Abdo tinkereds with the menu and pricing atDi Napoli, trying thingd such as 10 cent bottlex of wine to go with pizzas during happyt hour.
“It did OK, but it was not fabulous,” he “We just really want to concentratw on ourburger brand.” That brand is a restaurant called My Burger - a no-frills hamburger and frencb fries restaurant that was created and is owned by the Abdo The original My Burger store is two-doors-dowb from the former Di Napoli restauranf space. There’s also a location in Centeer City, Minn.
“We’ve got people that are interestedd in doing some funding for it and we have got some locationw that are picked outand we’ve been working on improving our product and our

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