Food Purportedly Left Behind In Reading D'Amici's

READING, MA — The abrupt closure of all three D'Amici's bakeries left a bad taste in customers' mouths, and, in Reading, food on the table. Photos submitted by a Patch reader show food left in several display cases at the Main Street business, days after a handwritten "out of business" sign announced the decades-old bakery's closure.

The reader who submitted the photos said he took them Wednesday morning.

In the two days since D'Amici's shut down in Reading, Melrose and Lynn, its former and current owners traded thinly veiled shots on social media. Owner Sandrine Coyer, who along with her husband bought the company from Joe and Sarah Torretta in 2017, posted on Facebook Monday that "as soon as we took over the business, we discovered things had been hidden from us. These issues condemned us as soon as we took over."

Meanwhile, Sarah Shea Torretta took to Facebook and indirectly rebuked Coyer's claim that the company was left in bad shape. "The thriving business that we built over 24 years collapsed under the new owners," she said, continuing that "if we could turn back time and take a different direction we would."

Social media posts indicate employees weren't told about the closing until right before the locations were set to open Monday.