Crowds of shoppers flocked to the T&T Supermarket on opening day Oct. 28. (Kate Porter/CBC)

A recently opened Asian supermarket was fined $610 Wednesday for doing business on Remembrance Day morning, violating an Ottawa bylaw that prohibits stores from opening until ceremonies have finished at the National War Memorial.

The manager of the T&T Supermarket, Jimmy Wen, said he didn't know about the bylaw, which has been in place since Ottawa's amalgamation in 2001, when it was adopted from the former city of Ottawa.

Wen said the store was very busy Wednesday, with as many customers as it would normally see on a weekend day.

City bylaw officers visited the store at 11:30 a.m., after the store opened at 9 a.m.

Under the bylaw, the city could have fined the store the sum of its gross sales for the day, but bylaw officers opted for a nominal $610 fine, said Christine Hartig, project policy officer with the city's bylaw department.

"We decided to take that action because it's a new store," said Hartig.

The supermarket opened at the end of October with huge crowds and lineups on its first day.

It stocks a wide variety of Asian and Western groceries, and is the 18th location to open in the popular chain, which was recently bought by Loblaw Companies Ltd.

The store includes a live-seafood section, counters that sell a variety of Asian takeout and a Chinese bakery. Within 90 minutes on opening day, the store was sold out of 1,000 kilograms of lobster.