Photo by Hamish Grant. Customer loyalty is a hard thing for a company to get, but once they've got it, it takes a hell of a lot of bad work to lose. With Amato Pizza, I was one of the people who happily ate from the pizza place in spite of the protests against it in 2005, when employees organized outside the St. Clair West location in mid-winter to protest $82,000 in alleged overtime......

The Amato Pizza at Queen and Bathurst has been shuttered. Since August 2005, the restaurant has been the centre of an organized boycott. Former employees charged that pay cheques were late or bounced, they were not financially compensated for overtime, and that owners Walter Cerenaka and Massimo and Giuseppe Colantonio also fired employees without severance. Now it would appear that the company has also failed to pay the rent. A letter dated March 23,......