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Antico Pizza owner under federal labor investigation

Conan O'Brien at Antico Pizza

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Conan O'Brien at Antico Pizza
By Bob Townsend
Oct 2, 2014

Amy Wenk, staff writer for the Atlanta Business Chronicle , reported today that Giovanni DiPalma, "the owner of a popular wood-fire pizzeria is feeling the heat from federal labor investigators who allege his Atlanta restaurant is run like a sweatshop".

On Sept. 30, the U.S. Department of Labor filed a complaint against Antico Foods LLC and Giovanni DiPalma in response to an investigation by the department's Wage and Hour Division.

ABC has links to the filings at the end of the story.

If memory serves, the last time DiPalma was involved in a legal action, it was 2012, and he was suing Fuoco di Napoli for knocking-off Antico Pizza’s business model.

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