The Casual Clam on NinthStreet North in St. Petersburg

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As part of the settlement, Sysco Food Services -- West CoastFlorida will donate $100,000 worth of food to area soup kitchensand charities and pay a $200,000 fee to the state for investigativecosts.
State investigators began the investigation two years ago aftercomplaints had been filed that some local eateries were serving upsomething other than grouper to patrons ordering grouper dinners.
The settlement with Sysco Food Services -- West Coast Florida,concludes the probe, said Attorney General Bill McCollum in a newsrelease issued this morning.
"Grouper is an important part of Florida's market and everyonegains from ensuring that our restaurants are receiving and servingthe real thing," McCollum said in the release.
In 2006, the Attorney General's Economic Crimes Division opened theprobe after allegations that some Tampa Bay area eateries servedand billed customers for grouper, but served up less expensivefish.
Investigators collected samples from more than 20 restaurants andhad the DNA from the samples tested at a St. Augustine lab.
Of the 20 restaurants targeted, 17 were identified as substitutingother species of fish for grouper, the release said. The AttorneyGeneral concluded its investigation of the restaurants last year.Settlements were made with the eateries, including La TeresitaCafeteria on West Columbus Drive which was ordered to repay thestate $4,500 to cover investigative costs; The Casual Clam on NinthStreet North in St. Petersburg and Woody's Waterfront Café of St.Pete Beach, each of which repaid the state $2,500.
Each restaurant also donated $500 to the laboratory that conductedDNA tests to show the fish were not grouper.
The state's probe continued, however, and investigators beganlooking at Sysco, which distributes food and related supplies torestaurants across the state.
The investigation concluded that Sysco supplied grouper to 14 ofthe 17 restaurants under investigation.
Today's settlement orders Sysco to stop marketing to its clientsany items described as grouper without taking reasonable steps todetermine that the item is genuine, the release said. Furthermore,the release states, "if Sysco undertakes scientific testing of itsfish supply and the tests do not positively identify a product asgrouper, or if Sysco has any other reason to believe the product isnot grouper, Sysco will not market the product as grouper."