The proposed improvement project for the intersection would inhibit access to the pizza restaurant and would reduce its parking by 25 percent, according to Darren Dulsky, who developed the Carmela’s Pizzeria concept. Those changes would “cripple our business at that location,” Dulsky told DDN, so the decision was made not to renew the lease.
The move comes less than 10 weeks after Greenfield Farms Food, Inc., the parent company of Carmela’s Pizzeria, announced plans to add as many as 10 new locations in the Dayton region over the next three years.
Dulsky said Carmela’s will “continue to focus on our three other locations in Brookville, New Carlisle and West Manchester north of Eaton,” while also continuing to search for suitable sites for a new location in the Springboro area.
Greenfield Farms Food Chief Financial Officer Henry Fong said fewer than 10 employees would be affected by the closing, since some employees have transferred to other locations.
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