Court docs: Mozzaria at 4th Street Live was in trouble nearly as soon as it opened

(Editor’s note: Steve Coomes and Terry Boyd contributed to this post.)

Major meltdown underway at Mozzaria restaurant.

Despite its owners’ sunny predictions and far-reaching ambitions for Mozzaria on Fourth Street Live!, it appears the Italian concept is in crisis.

Mozzaria was announced in an April 24 press release as “the first locally owned full service Italian restaurant to Fourth Street Live” that would have “a retail department (that) will sell house signature coffee as well as souvenirs,” as well as a “New York style delicatessen” … “the likes of Katz’s and Carnegie Deli” that would sell “sandwiches, salads and soups starting at New York deli 1960’s prices … .”

Problem was, the concept appears to have run into trouble in about a New York minute.

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