Fast-Food Feud Erupts Into Fire In the Bronx
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A simmering feud between a fried-chicken restaurant and the doughnut shop next door boiled over yesterday when the owner of one store set the other store on fire, arson investigators said.
The Bronx food fight began when a Twin Donut shop started competing with a Kennedy Fried Chicken by adding legs, wings, breasts, and thighs to its menu and selling plates of food for 50 cents cheaper, supervising fire marshal Robert Pinto said.
The chicken place’s owner, whose business had taken a nosedive, used a hammer to punch a hole in the wall between the stores around 4 a.m. yesterday, squirted gasoline into the doughnut shop and tossed in a lit match before driving off, Mr. Pinto said.
The blaze destroyed the doughnut shop, but the chicken restaurant was unscathed, he said. No injuries were reported.
