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Vallozzi calls it quits on Earth Inspired Salads after Restaurant Revitalization Fund falls through

Earth Inspired Salads Closed The former location of Earth Inspired Salads on William Penn Way in the first floor of the Residences at the Historic Alcoa Building downtown. (Tim Schooley/Pittsburgh Business Times)

PITTSBURGH — Julian Vallozzi was waiting on a reason to keep and eventually reopen his Earth Inspired Salads restaurants, which he had expanded to three locations downtown before the pandemic hit.

Last week, he decided to call its quits on what had been a popular breakfast and lunch restaurant.

The final straw: When federal legislation to replenish the Restaurant Revitalization Fund to help restaurants keep surviving through what is hoped to be the end of the pandemic died in the United States Senate.

Vallozzi said, “it’s very surprising to me.”

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