Winston-Salem restaurant Dioli’s Trattoria flooded by sprinkler system

WINSTON-SALEM Diolis Trattoria, an Italian restaurant on West Fourth Street, will be closed until next Tuesday after the eatery was flooded Wednesday morning, the restaurant owner said.

The incident happened about 8:30 a.m. when water flowed into the restaurant from the fire-sprinkler system in the Stevens Center, said Roger Dioli, who leases space for the restaurant from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.

The university owns the Stevens Center. The restaurant normally opens for lunch at 11 a.m. Tuesdays through Fridays, according to its website.

Dioli said he alerted the restaurants employees, who were in the basement when the flooding began.

I panicked, Dioli said.Continue Reading

A university crew vacuumed the water from the restaurant, which also had water damage to its ceiling and wall, Dioli said. A disaster-recover company and university officials were at the scene Wednesday.

The flooding was caused when the vendor of the fire-sprinkler system in the Stevens Center tested its alarm system, and it sprung a leak, said Lauren Whitaker, a university spokeswoman.

University officials are assessing the damage in the restaurant, Whitaker said, adding that the amount of water that entered the restaurant was still undetermined.

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