LAWSUIT CLAIM: Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza Served Inebriated Manager Alcohol

Allegedly Led To Critical Crash In Delray Beach… Suspect Remains Locked Up.

DELRAY BEACH, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2025 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza allegedly permitted a drunk manager with what is said to be a known drinking problem consume “copious amounts of alcohol” while at the restaurant’s Delray Beach location at 115 NE 6th Avenue. That manager, allegedly inebriated, is then accused of causing a critical crash.

Accoridng to a lawsuit just filed in Palm Beach County Circuit Court, Anthony’s is accused of permitting Ivan Lucas Rojas-Araya — a manager — to drink, then drive. Under Florida’s “Dram Shop” laws, it is illegal to continue to serve someone who is visibly intoxicated.

BocaNewsNow.com has confirmed that Rojas-Araya was arrested by Delray Beach Police and charged with DUI and Hit and Run following the March 9th, 2025 crash. He remains held on $50,000 bond. We are publishing key excepts from the lawsuit filed on behalf of the alleged victim who is represented by Attorney Seth P. Green of the Green Injury Law Firm in Boynton Beach.

>> On or about 03/09/2025, IVAN LUCAS ROJAS ARAYA (hereinafter referred to as “MANAGER”) was furnished alcohol while acting in the course and scope of his employment as a manager at the RESTAURANT. Later that same day, MANAGER and a group of RESTAURANT employees were on the RESTAURANT premises consuming a copious amount of alcohol, playing loud music, revving vehicle engines, and engaging in disorderly and reckless conduct. Soon thereafter, MANAGER operated his vehicle out of the premises and violently collided with PIERRE ANDRE JEAN BAPTISTE, causing severe and life-threatening injuries to PIERRE. The collision between PIERRE and MANAGER occurred at the traffic-light controlled intersection of NE 5th Ave. and NE 1st St. in Delray Beach, Florida. PIERRE was traveling south on NE 5th AVE. PIERRE had a solid green light. MANAGER was traveling west on NE 1s St. MANAGER had a red light. MANAGER drove through a red light, causing the collision. At all relevant times, RESTAURANT knew MANAGER was habitually addicted to the use of any or all alcoholic beverages.

Restaurant owed a statutory duty to Plaintiff under Fla. Stat (§) 768.125 not to furnish alcohol to MANAGER, who was known to be habitually addicted to alcohol. RESTAURANT breached its duty by furnishing MANAGER—a known alcoholic—with copious amounts of alcohol to the extent his normal faculties were impaired As a direct and proximate result of the negligence of, MANAGER, which is imputed to Defendant, RESTAURANT, via the Dram Shop Statute, Plaintiff, PIERRE, has suffered bodily injury, including a permanent injury to the body as a whole, pain and suffering of both a physical and mental nature, disability, physical impairment, disfigurement, mental anguish, inconvenience, loss of capacity for the enjoyment of life, aggravation of an existing condition or activation of latent conditions, expense of hospitalization, medical and nursing care and treatment, and loss of ability to lead and enjoy a normal life, and loss of income and earning capacity. The losses are either permanent or continuing and the Plaintiff will suffer losses in the future. <<

The suit seeks in excess of $50,000 which is the statutory minimum for filing a complaint in Palm Beach County Circuit Court. Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza, which is a national chain, has not yet responded to the suit through documents processed by the Palm Beach County Clerk of Courts.