Let Me Stand Next to Your Fire
Dec 29, 2007 restaurants
Copia Sings the Highway 40 Blues
As I was rolling down Washington Ave today, I was shocked to see that Copia caught on fire and damn-near looked like it exploded there was so much stuff out on the street.
The rumor downtown is that there were several points of origin, and while it will be interesting to see what turns up about this in the coming weeks, I’m going to refrain from speculating as, regardless of how or why, it sucks for the restaurant and more importantly its staff who will not be covered by insurance.
Giant picture here if you want more detail.
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December 29th, 2007 at 11:55 pm
A former coworker of mine, a girl named Dani, who just started working at Copia a couple of months ago said she was called this morning by the owner, who told her the same thing (multiple points of origin, thus almost certainly being a case of arson) and then proceeded to grill her trying to determine if her or some other possibly “disgruntled” employee was to blame. Kinda crazy.