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Paula's Family Restaurant

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Diner Owner: Violations Will Be Fixed, Not All Are Legit

The owner of Paula's says the restaurant will be remodeled before site is sold to new owners.

  The owner of Paula’s Family Restaurant doesn’t think the township’s scrutiny of the diner is warranted, especially since he said he is working hard to fix up the business. Ali Dadyan, owner of the center that’s home to Paula’s and Pearle Vision, told Cinnaminson Patch Tuesday he is more than willing to fix up some of the things the township says he’s in violation of, but a few—like the signage—are already in compliance. “The sign on the building was just deteriorating and it fell, so we threw it out,” Dadyan said. “We put a banner up that says we’re still open.” Deputy Mayor Anthony Minniti, who serves as the director of economic development, said the tarp sign that’s up now is not approved signage and is in violation of the site plan. …

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Committee Targets 'Deteriorated' Diner for Code Violations

Paula's Family Restaurant runs afoul of several maintenance codes, committee members allege, and possibly a larger site plan issue.

Calling it “one of the most deteriorated (properties) that we have currently in town,” Cinnaminson’s township committee decided Monday to order exterior improvements at Paula’s Family’s Restaurant. But thanks to missing site plans for the diner—which has stood since at least the 1960s—fixing problems could be a convoluted process. “Paula’s came in and indicated they were changing ownership—it’s pretty common knowledge they were going to be under new ownership called Cinnaminson Diner,” said Deputy Mayor Anthony Minniti. “Until they found out they would be subjected to our site plan ordinance, at which point everyone became confused on the ownership.” There are a few things Cinnaminson officials know for sure: signage at the diner changed …

charlie mothershed

4:58 pm on Tuesday, January 29, 2013

I may have come back to this issue a little later than wanted ,but has anyone from the committee even tried to contact Perkins corp. A co that size throws nothing away and may have a starting point in recreating what is lost.   more ›

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