Delray Marketplace management has asked for state and county assistance. It has increased the frequency of its fly-prevention program and wants to conduct the most aggressive control program permitted.
The managers also are working with the state Department of Health to identify the source of the flies. Until that report is done, it won t be known how bad the issue is or specifically where they are coming from.
“This is just terrible,” said Nicholas Muccia, general manager of Ocean One, which only recently replaced the shuttered Cabo Flats at the north end of the marketplace. He attributes the problem to area farmers using fertilizer.
Beth Ewen Illustration by Jonathan Hankin
Could the root cause of growing rancor at I Heart Mac & Cheese be that customers donât heart the cheese sauce?
Genevieve Prieto thinks so. She was the second franchisee to sign on, in late 2017, and said she was told by Michael Blom, the chef that helped create the brand, that sales at the flagship store in Florida were $700,000 a year. The actual figure was $262,054, a document shows.
She closed her store in December 2018, only eight months after opening, after sales dropped from $31,000 the first week to $5,000 the last, she said, and then sued the brand for illegal financial performance representations, among other allegations, and subsequently filed for personal bankruptcy.