REPORT: Obama hugger’s pizza shop facing boycott

The owner of a Florida pizza shop says people are boycotting his business because he bear-hugged President Barack Obama on Sunday.

“People are saying a lot of bad things and boycotting my restaurant,” Scott Van Duzer, 46, told POLITICO. “There’s no middle line anymore, and that’s exactly what’s wrong with our country right now.”

The owner of Big Apple Pizza & Pasta Restaurant in Fort Pierce, Fla., said that both Democrats and Republicans are [...]

September 10th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: All | Leave a comment

Police: Fla. pizza workers burned down rival store

LAKE CITY, Fla. (AP) — The battle for pizza supremacy has taken a wrong turn in Florida.

Two managers of a Domino’s Pizza restaurant in Lake City, in north-central Florida, have been charged with burning down a rival Papa John’s location. The motive? Police say one of the men admitted that he believed with his competitor out of the way, more pizza lovers would flock to his restaurant.

 

 

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October 29th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: All | Leave a comment

Man acquitted of murder — confesses

A central Vermont man who was acquitted of a murder charge in the fatal 2002 shooting of a co-worker outside a pizza restaurant in Waitsfield called police and confessed to the crime last month — but there’s nothing state authorities say they can do about it.
A Washington County jury in 2004 found Isaac Turnbaugh of Randolph not guilty of first-degree murder in the killing of [...]

August 3rd, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: All | Leave a comment