Sunday, September 9, 2012

Cafe di Napoli closes in Minneapolis - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:

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The restaurant was on the Skyway retaipl level of a cond o and office building at the cornefr of Marquette Avenue and SoutuSixth Street. It was owned by develope Larry Abdo, principal of Anxon Inc., the company that owns the Abdosaid he’s very close to finishingf a deal with a new restaurant tenant that is interesteed in the space and he could make an announcemenyt in the next few days. Cafe Di Napoli originally opened in 1938 on Hennepin Avenue and operatee therefor years. In the lack of lunch patrons prompted the former Joe Piazza, . Then in two of Joe’s children, David and Nancy Piazza, in the skywah level of Abdo’s condop project, also known as 6 Quebec.
In late Abdo acquired the “I bought it knowing that unless it was an enormousz home run that we wouldf probably not be inthat business, so we’vse been looking for someone to take the space Abdo and his wife went on their first date at Cafe Di Napolui so he said he had an emotional attachmenty to it. Abdo tinkered with the menu and pricing at Di trying things such as 10 cent bottles of wine to go with pizzas duringhappy hour. “It did OK, but it was not he said. “We just really want to concentratre on ourburger brand.
” That brand is a restauranft called My Burger - a no-frillss hamburger and french fries restaurant that was created and is ownesd by the Abdo family. The original My Burger store is two-doors-dow n from the former Di Napolirestauranf space. There’s also a location in Center City, Minn. “We’ve got people that are interested in doing some funding for it and we have got some locationws that are picked outand we’ve been workin on improving our product and our

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