WAKE FOREST, N.C. WNCN) — A Wake Forest restaurant just weeks away from possibly opening is now dealing with a big mess.
Someone smashed their car into it in the middle of the night. It happened at Acai Express, off Capital Boulevard. Surveillance video from a neighboring business shows a vehicle driving across the parking lot toward the front of the store. However, the storefront is just out of view.
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“Saturday evening my friend texted me and she said, Oh, what happened to your store? She took a front picture and sent it to me. And I’m like, I don’t know anything. So, me and my husband just came here, drove off and saw all the damage that was done,” said Dipali Patel, who owns the restaurant with her husband.
No one was hurt, but videos of the damage show shattered glass everywhere, along with mangled door framing…