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Decatur Diner located at 205 East Ponce De Leon Avenue, Decatur, GA 30030-3405 at Church Street in the heart of Downtown Decatur. This business was just sold in October but new absentee owner has no full service experience and not able to grow or manage business thus reason for sale. This is one of the hottest corners in all of Metro Atlanta with incredible visibility, frontage hi traffic car and foot traffic at the intersection of Church and Ponce.

LooneyMooney points to this extensive article about business practices at Decatur Diner from Atlanta’s Hispanic news source, Mundo Hispanico today.  Here’s a blurb that’s been translated by Google Translate…

Workers say a restaurant for over two months without receiving their wages.

At least 10 Diner Decatur Hispanic workers say this restaurant is not been paid in five weeks.

In addition, most of them claim that their employer paid six dollars an hour, when the minimum wage by law is 7.50.

These workers MundoHispánico told the restaurant owners have promised to pay off your debt on several occasions but that such agreements are only promises.

If anyone wants to provide a better translation, they’re welcome to.

If you weren’t around for the related Crescent Moon saga a couple years back, you can get caught up HERE.

Following up on this story, after scoring a 50 on their health inspection in late April, Decatur Diner received a 94 on the retest.

Here’s a link to the report for those interested.

A reader points out this new – as of Tuesday – health score for Decatur Diner. And while I’m generally not all that influenced by health inspection scores – I’ve mentioned here numerous times before that my kitchen would almost certainly fail the tough standards – this one is quite low.

In the interest of comparison, looking through other Decatur establishments recent health scores, I couldn’t find another restaurant that had as low or a lower score on a recent inspection.

Both Joey and Rusty report that the Decatur Diner’s doors are open and there are paying butts in the seats!

UPDATE: Lots of pics after the jump from Rusty, Parker, Marcia and Greg.

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