Honor system: Residents return restaurateur's missing $180,000

The case of Dan Bavaro's wayward coronavirus relief loan has a happy ending.


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File. Restaurateur Dan Bavaro, founder and owner of Bavaro’s Pizza Napoletana & Pastaria, has weathered tough times during the COVID-19 crisis.
File. Restaurateur Dan Bavaro, founder and owner of Bavaro’s Pizza Napoletana & Pastaria, has weathered tough times during the COVID-19 crisis.
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It’s one thing to get approved for one of the Small Business Administration loans that were authorized by the federal coronavirus relief bill, but it can be quite another to actually receive one. The disconnect between the two can be excruciating, as Dan Bavaro — founder and owner of Bavaro’s Pizza Napoletana & Pastaria, a chain of Italian restaurants in St. Petersburg, Sarasota and Tampa — has found.

 

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