"Will Dockery" <ironywaves@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:3fd1f181_1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> From: Wingman (no@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
)
> Subject: Pizza Roma location
>
> Pizza Roma moved to their "new" digs more 3 or 4 years ago, maybe even
> longer. They are on Whittington just 100 yards west of the
> intersection of Dairy Ashford and Whittington. You can see their old
> location from the parking lot of the newer one.
>
> Rich and Susan had hit their max at the old location and said they
> were being squeezed for higher and higher rent. It got to the point
> with lower interest rates where they could build the new place and pay
> for it outright with no increase in business. They then expanded the
> menu in an attempt to drive the business a little more upscale. They
> had always used the lunch buffet as a loss leader to get people to
> remember them at night.
>
> As far as a previous poster throwing rocks at them for "an empty
> parking lot", the vast majority of their business at the old location
> was either delivery or carry out. It was very rare to see more than a
> half dozen cars at the old spot. His point about restaurants moving
> to new locations only to leave their business behind is valid. Only
> his example was wrong. Pizza Roma does not fit that description.
>
> The kids tossing the rocks happened... I was there, and helped Tre chase
> them down and scold them. It happeded late one Summer night of this
year.
> Will
Maybe you as a driver shouldn't have been such an asshole to them, Will.
And I doubt you could chase down a slug let alone a group of boys with
rocks, you coward.
