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Unlicensed Pizza Store Restricted in Services
February 9, 2012
Gioia's Pizzeria, a highly popular pizza spot, has been found to be operating without a Berkeley, CA business license since 2004. The owners of the pizza store claim they didn’t know they needed to get their own business permit when they took over a spot that had been previously occupied by a different restaurant.
As Frances Dinkelspiel reports in Berkeley Side, “Art Kinsey, the pizzeria’s general manager, said when Gioia’s moved into the space once occupied by Magnani’s Poultry in 2004, the owners, Will and Karen Gioia, did not know they needed to apply for a new permit to operate a restaurant. It came to the city’s attention recently, and the Gioias and Kinsey are now working fast to make everything legal.”
The Gioias quickly acquired the business permit necessary for the sale of pizza, but the permit needed to legalize customers' eating on site has yet to be obtained. As such, the city has restricted Gioia’s Pizzeria from offering seats to hungry patrons.
“The city of Berkeley has determined that we are to be a ‘to go’ only operation,” reads a sign perched on one of the counters. “Unfortunately, this means we may not provide seating of any kind, nor may we offer a counter at which our customers may stay and ‘dine in’ at. In addition we have been asked to remove our outside counter.”
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