When Claudia and Marco Roca opened Capriotti’s Sandwich Shop last summer in Plantation, they hyped its arrival with a marketing blitz. They introduced a 24-karat, gold-flake turkey sub. They even invited a celebrity, Edward “Big Ed” Brown from “90 Day Fiancé,” to make them, drawing in legions of fans to the shop.
Now their Plantation franchise is “hanging on by a thread” — while their original Capriotti’s in North Miami Beach has been forced to close — following the alleged theft of $52,800 in goods from both restaurants, Claudia Roca told the South Florida Sun Sentinel.
“It has been devastating,” she said. “We put everything into these restaurants, and now we could lose them both.”…