Center City slice spot NYPD Pizza might want to have a good lawyer on hand. An unrelated Florida chain by the name of NYPD Pizza was just sued by the New York Police Department. The Florida chain was named in honor of the NYPD by owner & ex-Queens resident Robert Russo; the (real) NYPD claims the pizzeria “intentionally and purposefully” designed its logo to look like the police department shield. The chain, whose NYPD stands for the somewhat cumbersome “Pizza Delicatessen Taste of New York” (PDTNY?), is hoping to reach a settlement with the city of New York. As if this wasn’t complicated enough already, there is also another NYPD Pizza chain in Arizona as well.
Florida pizza chain draws NYPD’s ire [AM New York]
NYPD Pizza [MenuPages]
