Wednesday, April 10, 2013
The Peel Pizza Company, formerly Upper Crust, located on South Street, is expected to open later this month.
While no pizza has been served out of 73 South Street in Hingham since the Upper Crust closed last fall, there have been three owners and two names. The latest tenant, Peel Pizza Company, is expected to open in two to three weeks. The Hingham store closed when Upper Crust filed for bankruptcy. The lease and equipment were sold at auction in December for $70,000 to Al Carvelli, the owner of the Upper Crust location in Plymouth. Carvelli, a Hingham resident, planned to reopen the Hingham shop as Upper Crust. On February 28, however, Carvelli said he sold the operation to a "finance guy" from Connecticut. Carvelli would not say who bought the restaurant that he owned, but never opened. "I have no interest in it," Carvelli said of the Hingham …
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Reported to be among the bidders at tomorrow's auction for the bankrupt pizza places: both ex-workers (and their lawyer) and ex-managers.
The attorney representing ex-employees in a class-action lawsuit is among the bidders at tomorrow's auction for 10 Upper Crust locations. The pizza chain went under in October, with, says the Boston Herald, debt of $3-4 million. The Herald writes: The company sought bankruptcy protection after it defaulted on bank loans, the U.S. Labor Department forced it to pay $342,000 in back wages to 121 employees, and several lawsuits were filed against it. Some of those same employees, along with their lawyer, are among bidders for the bankrupt company, according to the Boston Globe. The Globe quotes attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan, who represents workers in their suit, as saying: The plan is for employees to have ownership shares, and we are very …
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
The gourmet pizza chain says it owes $3.4 million.
Upper Crust, the gourmet pizza chain that expanded rapidly over the last decade, and has a location in Downton Plymouth has struggled with labor, finances and ownership problemsover the past few years, and today filed for bankruptcy protection. According to Boston.com, the company defaulted on its loan to TD Bank in late September, and said it owes at least $3.4 million, including more than $500,000 to a Brookline construction company, $234,235 to a local food distributor, and $229,049 to former Massachusetts attorney general Thomas F. Reilly, who represented the business after leaving office, according to a list of creditors filed last week with the US Bankruptcy Court in Massachusetts. The Chapter 11 filing, which seeks protection from …
jan
10:44 am on Thursday, April 11, 2013
I'm amazed that the Plymouth Upper Crust is still open. Last time we were in there was Thanksgiving Parade 2012. We ate lunch at the counter; the pizza was served cold. When they reheated it, it became hard. I asked for a glass of water, and I was given a tiny Dixie cup of water. I am not kidding. We have never returned. more ›