Last month, Current in Zionsville reported that Le Dolce Vita owner, Kelly Evans, was unable to pay her employees their final paychecks following the bakery’s closing in December.
According to a Boone County Courthouse document dated March 5, Evans has now officially filed for bankruptcy after a conflict arose with former Eagle Creek Coffee Company owner, Susan Pratt, and the sale of items located inside the 10 South Main Street location.
“I really have a lot of respect for Sue and I thought this was going to go in a different way,” Evans said.
According to Evans, when she purchased the site in July, she agreed to pay Pratt a portion of the purchase agreement’s asking price, and then pay the rest of the money over the course of seven years if she was making a profit.
“That obviously didn’t happen,” Evans said. “She was only supposed to get the money if I made a profit, then she would get a profit percentage.”
Evans said that since she went out of business and thus would be unable to pay Pratt her money for seven years, Pratt wanted to claim all of the kitchen items and furniture inside Le Dolce Vita as hers and sell it as such.
“She wanted to take everything, even items from my family,” Evans said.
On March 19, a Boone County judge declared that all items inside the store do belong to Le Dolce Vita and should be sold as such.
“I had to file bankruptcy for protection,” Evans said. “My hope is that future proceedings we can come to some sort of settlement agreement. This is kind of like a divorce. We aren’t out of the woods yet.”
