Tampa couple back in business after customers help replace stolen pizza truck
Friends of Pizzeataly raised $11,398 to help finance a new truck outfitted with a special brick oven. The theft following a coronavirus shutdown had nearly sunk the business.
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Mirco Falcone and Dora Botero, owners of Pizzeataly, reopened their pizza truck business Jan. 28. They were scraping by, doing food delivery and making sandwiches for neighbors, when supporters came through with enough money to replace the truck. [ LUIS SANTANA | Times ]
TAMPA â Maybe 2021 will be better after all.
Dora Botero and her boyfriend Mirco Falcone had to shut down the pizza truck they had sunk their life savings into because of the coronavirus. It nearly ruined them, but after three months they reopened in July and started building back business. Then in November, someone in a pickup hitched up âPizzeatalyâ and drove off with it.
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The Beginning Delights food truck was stolen between Dec. 2 and 3. (Hillsborough Sheriff)
A surveillance camera catches thieves making off with the Pizzeataly food truck. (Hillsborough Sheriff)
The Pizzeataly food truck was towed away by a Ford F-250. (Hillsborough Sheriff)
Detectives believe the Beginning Delights food truck was towed away by a Dodge Ram 2400 pickup truck. (Hillsborough Sheriff)
Detectives believe the Beginning Delights food truck was towed away by a Dodge Ram 2400 pickup truck. (Hillsborough Sheriff)
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, FL Hillsborough County sheriff s detectives are searching for two stolen food trucks valued at $30,000 to $35,000 each.
On Nov. 16 between 3:43 and 3:52 a.m., a Ford F-250 pickup truck pulled up to the Pizzeataly food truck, parked in the parking lot at West Hillsborough Avenue and Sawyer Road in Tampa, hooked the food truck trailer up to the truck and drove away with it, fleeing south on the Veterans Expressway.