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The Daily Tar Heel :: Chapel Hill’s Pazzo Restaurant levied with child labor fine for 'Little Chef': Ben Braxton has become one of the most famous cooks in Chapel Hill, and he is only 15 years old.

Braxton, nicknamed “Little Chef,” works as a garde manger at Pazzo Restaurant — and his age made him a subject of controversy.

Seth Kingsbury, owner of Pazzo, hired Braxton when he was 13 and got an exception from the N.C. Department of Labor to employ him — but a photo of the teen handling alcohol cost him a $7,975 fine for violating child labor laws.