Monday 26 September 2011

Cafe di Napoli closes in Minneapolis - Houston Business Journal:

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The restaurant was on the Skyway retail level of a condo and officw building at the corner of Marquette Avenue and South Sixth Street. It was owned by developer Larry Abdo, principal of Anxonb Inc., the company that owns the Abdosaid he’s very close to finishing a deal with a new restauranft tenant that is interested in the space and he couls make an announcement in the next few Cafe Di Napoli originally opened in 1938 on Hennepih Avenue and operated there for years. In the lack of lunch patrons promptedf theformer owner, Joe Piazza, . Then in two of Joe’s children, David and Nancty Piazza, in the skyway level of Abdo’s condlo project, also known as 6 Quebec.
In late Abdo acquired the restaurant. “kI bought it knowing that unless it was an enormous home run that we wouls probably not be inthat business, so we’vr been looking for someone to take the spacse over.” Abdo and his wife went on theirf first date at Cafe Di Napol so he said he had an emotionakl attachment to it. Abdo tinkeresd with the menu and pricing atDi Napoli, tryin g things such as 10 cent bottles of wine to go with pizzas during happy hour. “It did OK, but it was not he said. “We just really want to concentrate on ourburge brand.
” That brand is a restaurant calledf My Burger - a no-frillse hamburger and french fries restaurant that was createsd and is owned by the Abdo family. The originap My Burger store is two-doors-down from the former Di Napolorestaurant space. There’s also a location in Center City, Minn. “We’ve got people that are interestedf in doing some funding for it and we have got some location s that are picked outand we’ve been workinf on improving our product and our

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