Australia's pizza champion has had three of his Melbourne restaurants peppered with bullets. Source: AAP
AUSTRALIA'S pizza champion has had three of his Melbourne restaurants peppered with bullets.
But Tony Cannata didn't want to talk about the overnight shootings, which occurred on the same night his Woodstock pizza chain promoted his return to the kitchen to create his signature slices.
The three Woodstock Pizza restaurants - one of which is under construction - were fired at with multiple rounds about an hour apart.
The first shots struck a side window of the North Fitzroy restaurant around 11pm (AEDT) on Wednesday.
Shots were then fired into the vacant building in Essendon, and a third restaurant in Brunswick East.
Mr Cannata, who was crowned Overall Champion Pizzaiolo (pizza maker) at the Australian Pizza Championships last month, had just finished a shift at his Lygon Street eatery.
"I'm very emotional at the moment," he said before declining to comment further.
"I've got nothing to add. The police are investigating the matter. I'm sure they'll get to the bottom of it."
One of his staff members expressed relief that no one was injured in the shooting attacks.
Detective Inspector Adrian Dalzotto said police could not overlook the possibility that a message was being sent to Mr Cannata.
"Whatever it is, we can't overlook the coincidence that there's three premises all run by the one business," he said.
"Whatever it is, the motive and message and whatever, we've still got to work through that."
Police have so far found no links to bikie gangs but aren't ruling out the possibility either.
"Any shooting, any violent incident, we're going to look at everything, that will be part of our inquiries," he said.
He said the shootings may have been planned for after the restaurants were closed, but agreed it was lucky no one was injured.
"They're in areas where, down there in Fitzroy and Brunswick, you could have had anybody down there," he said.
Mr Cannata has been steadily raising his profile and appeared on an Italian community TV show earlier this year.
"For me, it's not a job, it's a lifestyle," he told News Corp Australia in September when he won Australia's gold award in pizza making.
"It is an art and it is a market that continues to evolve."
He is due to fly to Italy and Las Vegas next year for the World Pizza Championships.
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