I caught up with chef/restaurateur Frank Bonanno at Denver Food & Wine last weekend, and asked him about the closing of Bonanno Brothers Pizza at the Vistas at Park Meadows, the only suburban attempt the successful restaurant owner has tried. “Never again,” he told me.
It was the first time he had partnered with an investor on an eatery, and when the investor wasn’t realizing the return on investment he expected, he opted to shutter the place.
There are no hard feelings, Bonanno said, who added that Park Meadows mall execs could not have been more accommodating in his quest to vacate the lease and the premises.
So Bonanno got burned in the ‘burbs, but don’t expect that hiccup to stop him from expanding with more concepts in Denver. Stay tuned.
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