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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
Entertainment
Milly Ledsham

Woman's Facebook plea for 'Scouse Italian' struggling to compete with Costa

A small business owner wants to thank a customer after a post about him on Facebook went viral.

Antonio Monica has been the owner of Caffetteria Dantonio, which is situated in a stand in the Metquarter, since 2005. However, despite a true love for his job the dad said it is becoming increasingly difficult to compete with the bigger coffee chains.

On Saturday a post on Facebook was shared by Sugar Smith imploring people to go to Antonio's stall after he was stood there with no customers. The post, which has now had nearly 5,000 shares and hundreds of comments reads: "If your'e going for coffee in town today call into the Metquater.

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