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wilmettebeacon.com news<br />
the wilmette beacon | October 11, 2018 | 3<br />
Lawsuits: Closing Treasure Island Foods being sued by produce supplier, employee union<br />
Wilmette store<br />
closing Oct. 12<br />
Eric DeGrechie, Editor<br />
Treasure Island Foods,<br />
Inc., the parent company<br />
of a Wilmette grocery<br />
store, is facing two new<br />
lawsuits as it prepares to<br />
cease operations Friday,<br />
Oct. 12.<br />
In the first lawsuit, Anthony<br />
Marano Company,<br />
a Chicago-based produce<br />
company, is suing Treasure<br />
Islands Foods, Inc. for<br />
$453,000 of unpaid produce<br />
according to a lawsuit<br />
filed Monday, Oct. 1,<br />
in Chicago’s U.S. District<br />
Court.<br />
In documents obtained<br />
by The Beacon, Treasure<br />
Foods, Inc., the parent<br />
company of the Wilmette<br />
grocery store at 911 Ridge<br />
Road, is named as the defendant<br />
along with owners<br />
Maria A. Kamberos and<br />
Christ N. Kamberos, Jr.<br />
Magazi, an Illinois corporation<br />
listed as having its<br />
principal places of business<br />
in Wilmette, is also<br />
listed.<br />
It was announced last<br />
week that all Treasure Island<br />
Foods locations will<br />
be closing Friday, Oct. 12.<br />
In the lawsuit, it is alleged<br />
that the Anthony<br />
Marano Company had delivered<br />
wholesale quantities<br />
of produce to Treasure<br />
Island’s seven locations<br />
between July 1 and Oct. 1.<br />
According to the lawsuit,<br />
$33,517.51 in produce was<br />
delivered to the Wilmette<br />
location. Each of the seven<br />
stores accepted the delivered<br />
produce.<br />
The Anthony Marano<br />
Company is being represented<br />
by Robert B. Marcus<br />
of Maksimovich & Associates<br />
out of Lyons.<br />
In the second lawsuit,<br />
filed in federal court on<br />
Thursday, Oct. 4, the United<br />
Food and Commercial<br />
Workers International<br />
Union is suing Treasure<br />
Island Foods for allegedly<br />
violating a law that states<br />
employees must be given<br />
written notice of pending<br />
layoffs at least 60 days prior<br />
to the employer closing<br />
down, also known as the<br />
Worker Adjustment and<br />
Retraining Notification<br />
Act of 1988.<br />
In the lawsuit, also obtained<br />
by The Beacon,<br />
Treasure Island Foods,<br />
Inc., Magazi and Patrick<br />
Cavanaugh are named as<br />
defendants. Cavanaugh<br />
is named as the trusteeassignee<br />
for the various<br />
Treasure Island Foods<br />
entities and states that he<br />
controls the day-to-day<br />
operations of the retail<br />
grocery stores.<br />
The United Food and<br />
Commercial Workers International<br />
Union filed the<br />
lawsuit on behalf of the<br />
union’s Local 1546.<br />
The lawsuit states that<br />
Treasure Island has employed<br />
more than 100 employees<br />
who in the aggregate<br />
work more than 4,000<br />
hours per week collectively<br />
at seven stores. It claims<br />
that “on or about Sept. 26,<br />
Treasure Island ordered<br />
the closing of all seven<br />
stores within the following<br />
two weeks, resulting in the<br />
termination of more than<br />
50 employees, excluding<br />
part-time employees, constituting<br />
a “plant closing.”<br />
According to the lawsuit,<br />
on or about Sept. 26,<br />
Treasure Island provided a<br />
hand-delivered letter to all<br />
employees stating it would<br />
close all of its stores dur-<br />
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