No. Unfortunately, it won't make your order go faster. We have very limited staff, very. It's usually only 1-2 of us working at the restaurant, including on busy weekends. Most of the time, we are able to get things done quickly and on time, but if multiple people come in to eat inside, and we have have several orders, lasting well over an hour to get caught up, we have to go in the order that the order was received. With that in mind, do understand that often we are unable to answer the phone for a few reasons. Sometimes we are on the phone answering a long question from customers who want to know what island we source our olive oil from, or some other long question right at our dinner rush that we do our best to answer but often don't have the time while we are dealing with multiple calls coming in... So, that might be wy we didn't answer the phone. Also, we may let our phone go to voicemail for a few minutes until we can get a handle on the time it will take for us to get new orders done. Sometimes, people call back in 15 minutes and we are able to get their order done in 15-20 minutes. Sometimes we are an hour out.

Sometimes, however, people do come in and say "we figured we would just come in, we only want 1 pizza! Marsha, Marsha, Marsha!" I totally want to make that 1 pizza for you. However, do you see the 10,15, 20 tickets all with 1-2 pizzas? Should we call all of them and tell them you only had 1 and ask if they don't mind waiting? Sometimes we do squeeze in an order, but sometimes there are just too many orders for us to be able to do that.

Anyway, we want your business, but soemtimes we get swamped and are unable to answer the phones and it is difficult making food for people that called before you did, while also dealing with the phones. Every local restaurant does the same thing, so please don't take offence, try again, or at least have some understanding as to why we shut the phones off and think about how you would feel not just taking the orders, but being the customer that ordered before you.

Also, we have actually had people say to us on the phone, "I tried calling and nobody answered, you should hire people to answer the phone." My favorite is, "you don't offer delivery? You should hire a delivery driver and you would get much more business!" Yeah, why didn't I think of that? In a magical world where elves and fairys exist, we might be able to wish for more labor to be around to hire, but here in the real world, in a vaction area, where everyone has a "now hiring" sign, and being in a restaurant that consistently pays well, it's not that we "just need to hire people." It's that we need to hire the right people and our options are limited in this area due to it being mainly vacationers here.

It takes less than 5 minutes to prep and top a pizza and about 6 minutes for it to cook. If there are multiple pizzas it's obviously more time to prep and top, and it will add time to cook as we open the oven and move pizzas around. So, when someone orders 3 pizza's, you can estimate it will likely take about 10-15 minutes total, depending on the orders we have before that order. So, if there are 5 other orders, including Philly Cheesesteaks, fries, chicken tenders, etc., it takes longer. Plus, for Gluten-free pizzas, it takes additional time as we wear different aprons, gloves, etc. to keep our guests safe. So, if you call, you may hear that a pizza will take 10 minutes, or you may hear it could take over an hour.

Most get it, they understand that it's not a pizza that takes that long, it's the amount of orders before theirs that must be completed first. However, every day, seriously, every single day we are open there is at least 2-3 people who don't get it. Whether they come in or they call, we tell them 20-30 minutes, 45 minutes, or whatever we think it's going to take, and they make a comment like "it takes you that long to make a pizza?" Oh dear, seriously, you surely have some deductive reasoning to understand that there are other orders besides yours, right? I sincerely don't understand the question, so forgive my frustration when you ask something like this.

So, next time you call, understand that if you call Friday at 5, it may take 15 minutes, but it also might be an hour or more. While I don't fault people for being dissapointed, I get dissapointed as well when I don't get what I want when I want it, it happens... But I also am adult enough to recognize that I'm not always going to get what I want and if you are frustrated, pretty please think before you make some insulting or rude remark to our teenage daughter or my wife, both of which are usually the ones answering the phone.

No, not really. Well... sometimes. Sometimes we do for large orders made in advance. We want to offer full delivery because I firmly believe pizza is a delivery business... However, we need staff in order to offer delivery. Also, this isn't a big city and are not in a central location. When we deliver for weddings or big orders, it sometimes takes 20 minutes or more to arrive at our destination in Moultonborough. That works out to be at least 40 minutes for delivery. That works out for us when it comes to delivering 30 pizzas to a gathering, but not for a small pizza and some fries; which is not worth the time nor cost. We would not be in business if we did that, especially since we don't have a delivery driver. This weekend (the end of October 26th) for example, we are delievering around 30 XL pizzas to a wedding party. We are making quite a bit off the order. We will deliver because they ordered weeks in advance and paid in advance and the order is worth quite a bit. If it was a small pizza and fries for under $15, it would never be worth delivering for us because if I leave to deliver, there is no cook to make the pizzas. We can take that delay when it comes to a large order that is going to be a large portion of the revenue that night. Anyway, it's basic economics of staying in business

This may eventually change, but for now, and so far since we opened, we have not, and do not offer delivery.

Out of respect for our neighbors, please park in the spots in green in front of the restaurant or yard (signs show where to park). Do not park in the driveway, do not park behind the restaurant, nor on the side of the restaurant, as that is parking for the church. Thank you!

This is a great one, whether we were only open 6 days per week, 5 days per week, or just on weekends, we've got this question so many times that to us, it's old. How old is it? It's so old, Ed McMahon didn't even laugh.

At this point. It seems people want us to be open 7 days a week, 24 hours a day just in case they might want a small order of fries? We would be open but it's hard to be open when you're on crack and on welfare. Just kidding, that's an episode of It's always Sunny in Philadelphia. In all reality, we are open when we CAN be open. We are open to the public on weekends making our famously great pizza which we often here is "the best pizza I've ever had," by customers. We've been open at the bare minimum every Friday and Saturday for over 3 years at this point (It's now October, 2026).

Unfortunately, it wasn't always clear until summer of 2024 when we finally put up a sign that said that we were open Friday and Saturday (or Friday - Sunday during the summer months). Prior to that, we would put up our open sign when open, which didn't give people enough notice and some people don't seem to check hours online (I have been checking times online since the 90s, but that's me). Despite this, people still will make comments on social media to this day and say that they never know when we're open. People actually walk in and make the same statement. Considering how much we are there, it's mind boggling that people would ask this. It's literally on the sign on a major highway and it's very clear and bright. We've answered these same people on social media, yet they will go on a post and say "I never know when they're open." Oh how some love to sow the seeds of discontent, it's almost comical but it's really not.

For summers, we are open all weekend, every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. For the rest of the year, we're open every Friday and Saturday. If one of us gets sick, we're probably not going to be open. If somebody has to go visit someone in the hospital, we're probably going to close that weekend if we have to. We will put up a sign and adjust our hours on Google. There are many reasons that like in any other career, one of us could not be able to be open, so then we have to make the decision to not open. Despite this, we have been open almost every weekend for years. We have made this a priority to be open every weekend. There are only a few weekends we have been off, and that was to visit and elderly parent, sorry, not sorry, as you young kids like to say!

So, check our hours online and come in when we are open. It may be changed by the time you read this as we may be full time and have found a hardworking soul (not as of 2026), but we never know. We've had a hiring sign up since 2021, and have spent thousands on ads, it's simply not easy finding people in this region. In fact, we have never advertised at all to promote our restaurant, the only ads we have paid for are for employment ads; despite this, we have consistently been successful and have kept the doors open. We just can't keep them open 7 days per week and still manage to walk as each shift is already 10-12 hours per day, not including prep, ordering, etc.

We care more about serving the best food than being open the most hours.

Is this a question? It's not actually a frequently ask question, I think I've only heard it two or three times, nonetheless, I'm not sure what the point of stating or asking that is. Presumably, sometimes it's because people ordered some food and assume because nobody is there, we shouldn't have quoted 30 minutes, not understanding that we had many other take out orders.

Usually however, it's a somewhat confrontational local who proceeds to tell us that we're never open, even though we've literally been open every Friday and Saturday, or Friday, Saturday and Sunday (summer 2026), or full-time at parts (Summer 2025), over the past 5 years. Nonetheless, because we're not open 7 days a week, a few people still like to ask this question or make negetive comments about us not being open (addressed on another FAQ question). One of them literally asked this question the last weekend of July (2026) and then three separate groups walked in right after hie asked... I thought that was kind of funny.

There wouldn't always be cars out front, because 90% of our orders are people that order and pick up their pizza. So they pull up, come in and grab their Pizza, and leave. The other 10% of our guests dine-in, most of the time. It's usually one or two groups at a time. We've also had a full house of well over 40 people here. It's random, so there's not usually a way to predict it, but 4-8 on a weekend evening in the summer is likely going to be busy. We actually just had a full house last weekend in the middle of October (2026) that we didn't expect to be that busy... Again, it's random.

To be clear, most orders are pickup orders. So, even though nobody is there, we have have 10 orders we are working on, people pull up, pick up their food, and leave, as they do for most pizza restaurants. So, I'm just clarifying, just because we are not busy in your opinion, doesn't mean we are not busy. We also quote based on what time it will take. Sometimes people are very suprised and grateful when we tell them 15 minutes and get their food done before they even get there. That's only because business is either slow at that given point or we are completely caught up with orders.

We have also had this on the other end... People are hungry, stuck in traffic on a Friday at dinner time, and perhaps they drove by a few other restaurants that were obviously full and busy. They stop in, order, and tell them everything is made to order and we should have their order in about 15-20 minutes. Most are appreciative, though some seem befuddled, and assume because we are not crowded, that we can simply whip up whatever in 5 minutes, not thinking about the fact that orders are made in the order received and everything is made to order (not sitting on warmers all day).

We've owned this restaurant since 2021, we wouldn't be open if we weren't making money; that's basic economics. If you don't see cars, it's because it's mostly pickup orders, they kept their car across the street at the country store and walked over to eat, or we simply slowed down at that point. Hopefully that answers your question if I referred you to this FAQs.

The one thing consistent with our signage is that no matter what our other signs say (open, open daily, closed, temporarily closed, etc), our "Now Hiring" sign was always there... Just not a lot of people working these days around here. We are in a vacation town so there are not a lot of people that want to work in a restaurant that doesn't serve alcohol. We are currently hiring as of Spring 2026. Whenever we are hiring, we are looking for hardworking people. To clarify what we mean by that, please review the FAQ about about staffing. We offer a fun environment that is slow to steady most of the time but there are extremely busy times; it's an unpredictable flow. There are times we feel it's very slow with only occasional orders, and 6 different vehicles will pull up at once. Then there are weekends, which are consistently busy. Ultimately, it's all manageable but requires the type of person who can do more than one thing at a time sometimes, and understand that sometimes you have to pick up the pace when there are a lot of orders. Because of this, we do the weekends, which are the most difficult days and when we are hiring, we have hired people to work the weekdays, with us being there as needed.

When we are operational and running full time, we would be glad to support local events, etc. The problem is, we have someone asking us for free stuff regularly. We would love to accommodate some of these groups, but it's not possible right now when we are running part time.

No, not really! Sometimes people will decide to give us advice while picking up their pizza. They will suggest we add fish, or open more hours (as if we hadn't thought of that). Most of the time, it comes from a good place, so I'm not faulting them. I just don't think it's appropriate to walk into a business and tell them how to run a business, anymore than I think it's appropriate to walk into a home and tell someone how to run their home.

While we appreciate the business, it seems like people have a misconception about why we are (or were) not open every day. Ultimately, people will tell us how we can get more customers, despite never owning a business themselves. We are told to have coupons, we are told to be open steady hours, we are told we should grow our own food, we are told all sorts of things from people. Again, I believe in most cases it's coming from someone with good intentions, so I'm not faulting them for their concern. Sometimes however, it comes from someone condescending and pretensious, and that's not someone I want commenting on what we should or should not do. I personally would never venture into someone's business to lecture them or tell them what I think they should do, but that's just me... We already explained about being open in the FAQs above. Also, we can't have coupons since we are not open every day. If we don't have the staff, nor hours, it wouldn't be helpful to us. We can put our flags up at any time, and we do well. We appreciate the business and the support... No advice please. I've been a SCORE mentor, have helped hundreds of businesses to succeed, so we're okay, just come in and enjoy the food we offer!

This relates to the question above and something someone called and asked when they called in an order. I explain this on the phone when I have some random person calling up and yelling at my teenage daughter when she tells them 45 minutes, but some people don't seem to listen (nor have good values if you are a grown man yelling at some teenage girl). If you call us, and we have 1 order, your order will probably take 15 minutes. If you call us, and we have 50 orders ahead of yours, that doesn't mean you are a special flower that should be put above everyone else. We do orders in a first come first serve basis, so sometimes, when we are backed up, will tell people our expected time and sometimes we even have to shut the phone off. Please understand that every day is different, every dinner is different. There are people that call us up and we get their dinner to them in 10 minutes, and there are weekends where they order the same time and we tell them 40 minutes.

Our average order completion time is 15-20 minutes. Every day is different though and it can take longer if we are busy. We are a family business with 2 adults and 2 young children, and many people tell us we do a great job at doing orders quickly despite being so busy. We sometimes get behind on busy weekends, and we try to avoid it, but whenever this happens, I call all the local places, find out their wait times are as bad or worse, so we do pretty dang great considering we are only a small family run restaurant without a bunch of staff like some other local businesses!

All truth told, when I hear someone say "I heard..." I usually know it's going to be a question that was not well thought out because someone didn't think the question through. I heard a lot of things, that doesn't make anything "I heard" true without doing some research for myself. Speaking of which, "I've heard people only use 10% of their brain!" While that is not actually true (at all), I sometimes believe it is true with some interactions.

Officially it is 50 inside, however I believe we can currently only comfortably seat around 36 inside. We also have an additional 24 seats outside during the warmer months.

If it's because you are visiting New Hampshire, or never knew about us, or we were never open when you tried to stop by, sure! If it's because you are a local social media addicted person that is angry and want to make a declaration that you will never support our business because we haven't been open enough for you... well, we are not interested.

Living in a small town has it's perks. One is that it's not as crowded as larger cities, and you get to know some great locals. It also means dealing with people who treat this as a junior high school playground. See, 90% of the locals have been great, supportive, and have been very happy, whether they visited the old place that was here before us, or not. However, some have had some other strange reasons for not only not ordering from us, and actually attacking us every time we have a well-liked social media post.

We have had some say they didn't like the previous establishment or politics of the previous owners, so they never come for that reason. Not sure what that would have to do with us... but oh well! We have also had people say they loved the previous establishment and don't come for that same reason. Strange, but okay, whatever... We sell food, not politics, so I'm not sure what you liking or disliking the previous establishment would have anything to do with us. Seems childish and petty to me... In fact, we had many who have come the past few years and say to us they never came in for these reasons, and were among the complainers on social media, and then once they tried us out, now say we're their favorite local place and are our regulars. Thank you.

The funny thing is, at least once per week, a local comes in, say's they have never been here, and gives us some of the reasons mentioned here, and then they become our regulars. Often it starts out with a "I'll give it a try and see if it's any good!" Funny, I've never talked to a business owner that way, but some locals think it's okay to be like that... Nonetheless, almost consistently they become our regulars and we know them by name rather than just the customer that once said the above statement... So, it's okay, but after 5 years of being open, it's frustrating that some don't get the concept that just because they don't come in, doesn't mean we are never open.

The funny thing is, when we meet new people from around the country and ask if they had been here before, or we ask "how is everything," We consistently hear that we have the coolest pizza restaurant they'd ever been too, or "the best pizza we have ever had," or at least, "the best pizza north of NYC." We'll take any of those compliments, and appreciate them! It's a sentiment we here from people that visit from all over the world and from locals alike, but some locals are just so stuck in their social-media obsessed bubble, they just don't want to stop by and try us out. I'm okay with that, I'd rather not have the negetivity in my life, and would prefer they find another place to eat if they can't show some respect.

One of the worse reasons we have heard is that someone will leave a response to a social media post and declare that since we are never open when they want to come, they will never support us and instead go elsewhere. So because we are short-staffed, or have had health issues, or have had to renovate a building that was literally rotting when we purchased it (we have the repair receipts to prove it), you won't support us? Thanks, your parents must be proud of your objectivity and maturity "adulting" in your 30s and 40s.

One interesting thing about a few of these people is that when I check out their profiles, out of curiosity, after discovering our post was shared to someone's private group or profile, I started seeing a few other responses within minutes, all insulting us and our business. I would often find they are a competitor, a friend or family of a competitor, or someone that likes every post of a competitor's business, or are otherwise connected to someone that we let go or quit because they were not doing a good job. This has been consistent, though by now (2026) it has died down but there is 1 other establishment that consistently talks crap about our business, and honestly, I'm not sure why as we don't offer the same type of food and are not really competition.

Anyway, the thing is, why would you, as a business owner, want your friends to insult another business? I don't want to run a business that way. We have supported quite a few local businesses and have never even considered insulting them or having friends complain on their social media. We are above that, and I get there is a temptation to delve into the worst parts of humanity on social media, but really, I'm sure you could do something more constructive with your lives? Surely working with other local businesses for the benefit of the community is a better direction to take, right?

We have liked and supported almost every business in the area and have left good reviews for some and even promoted them on social media when we were closed even though it was never reciprocal. If I haven't had anything good to say, I just don't say it. I'd rather them be successful because if the area is successful, we are all successful as a community.

Anyway, I'm done, but rather than respond to a handful of negative comments, I decided to simply have one response I could share when we get these bizarre exchanges on social media. I know they won't come and read this long rant, but still, it's already written and I won't have to explain it again, so that's that!

Not Really. We sell pizza.

When I hear this, it always boggles my mind, honestly. While it may come to a surprise to some, especially in the day of real estate transactions, people who buy properties don't necessarily know the people they buy the properties from. I say that, not to be sarcastic, well, a little, but I also say it because at least once a year someone will come in. Tell me about their relationship with one of the old owners, and then ask how well I knew them, act as if we took over for them, as if it was handed down. This is despite the fact that it has a completely different atmosphere, a completely different name, as well as a different menu. We have also had people in the early days make comments "It's a shame you took the restaurant away from them." As if this was some hostile corporate takeover reminiscent of the scene from Monthy Pyton's "The Meaning of Life." That's now how real estate transactions work.

This property was for sale for 12 years as it was a property in serious decline. We simply purchased a property, created a restaurant named after our daughter, and remodeled everything to make this look nice. We have made the village area look better than it has in the past 15 years, and that is not opinion, but can be seen on Google's street view history. So, this wasn't a hostile takeover, nor did we know the previous owners outside of doing the transaction and turning the property down 4 times before finally agreeing to it. Ultimately, that is the extent of our involvement with the previous owners. It's not saying anything good nor bad, just clarifying a real estate transaction as some people have asked us this and honestly it just confuses me a bit.

No.

This is too regular of an occurance to not be irritating. We often get asked, "Can I use you're restroom, I am going to buy something." In 99% of the cases, they are not going to buy anything. We then hear (and we are paraphrasing here with reality): "I'll buy a $1 item on my credit card which will charge you a credit card fee and by the time you pay the credit card fee and the cost of the item you'll make no money, and then I will go in and mess up your bathroom and clog your toilet, because I'm just too good to use a porta-potty or a gas station bathroom, are you sure I can't just use it real quick?"

Yes, we're sure.

Customers usually don't ask to use the restroom until they have to use the restroom. I can always tell a phony customer because they will walk in and look in both directions, trying to find the quickest path to the restroom, if they can't easily tell they will ask where it is and give us the same speech. Ever since we put up "Restrooms for customers only," stickers, they will come up, and loosely pretend to look at a menu, and then they will ask to use the restroom. Out of the well over a few thousand times this has happened to us, there's only been probably a handful of people that actually ordered anything that first come in and ask to use the restroom. The only time anything has ever been broken, clogged, flooded, etc, it has always been somebody who was not a customer who first asked to use our restroom. This not only costs us time and money, but there's only one or two of us here at any given time, so if an issue like this occurs we actually have to shut down and take care of it, losing hours of revenue so someone can use a bathroom that seems to not know how to use a bathoom in the first place...

One summer we were told repeatedly by different people that they were told they could use the restroom by another establishment. While it happens a lot less now, it still happens. Another reason many people want to stop at our place is because of the fact that other than gas station restrooms, and busy restaurants with large parking lots, there's no easily accessible place to pull over and run in and use a bathroom from Meredith to here, other than our establishment. We have around 15 parking spots, and five directly in front of the restaurant, so many people feel it's okay to just run in and go to the bathroom. In 2025 we had an out of order sign on our bathroom because people kept asking to use it, we actually had someone tell us that it's a public place and they have a right to use our bathroom. We have a private septic, and a private well, and it's our private property, so it is not a public restroom.

Another factor in this long answer about restroom use, is the fact that even if there's not an issue, there's only one or two of us here, making food, taking orders at the register, handling the phones, and doing everything, so if someone wants us to stop and go in and open the bathroom for them, that's now a whole other thing we have to do, including take off our gloves, go over and open the bathroom door, go back in, wash your hand, put gloves on and get ready to make food again, it's a whole process we will have to do just so someone can avoid using a porta potty at another place.

In 2026, we put a lock on the door with a code which we change often. This is/was supposed to help. We are probably going to set up a random code, and put it on the receipt, so you will need to make a purchase and get a receipt in order to use the restroom. This way we won't remember the code, and if anyone wants to use it, it will be from a few random generated codes.

Anyway, summer of 2026 (this month), we made the mistake (twice in July and August) of allowing someone to use our restroom using one of the above excuses. I was trying to cook, so I just let him use it. 30 minutes later, we got a little irritated that he was still in there. I knocked on the door and he said he would be right out. What does someone do for 30 minutes in a small locked bathroom? Customers weren't able to use it so a non-customer could sit in there for the amount of time a sitcom plays (with commercials). So, as soon as we let our guard down, the first person to use the bathroom did exactly as we feared... Just as bad, the following week we let someone use the ladies room, once again, she left a clog we had to deal with, delaying when we could continue preparing food, making us about 15 minutes behind on orders for the next few hours.

This happened again last weekend, August 2026, when a family of 6 came in, pretended to look at the menu, and asked to use the restroom. Nobody was reading the menu, they just kept looking for the bathroom until one of them figured it out and told the others. The father asked if his kids could use the restroom before they ordered. I knew they were not being honest, but let them anyway because they had young kids. After I watched each of them walk in one at a time, and all of them used the restroom, they said they were in the mood for something else and left.

So no, you can't use our restroom if you are not a customer. We are more than welcoming, have very clean bathrooms, and once an order is placed, you are welcome to use it as long as you'd like (well, I guess to a point), but if you are simply trying to avoid a porta potty, or a gas station, you are not going to have luck here.

I'm not sure who would retire and then decide to make pizzas and work in a hot kitchen for fun. Don't get me wrong, we enjoy doing it, but I don't think we would ever consider it fun working long hours in a hot kitchen. Nor are we retired. We purchased this building in 2021 with the intention on making this a great place to visit and offer great food. We have accomplished that. Our other goal is to have it consistently open 7 days a week, with good staff. Without staff, we open on weekends, and do private events and catering. So it's not an extra fun thing to do because we are retired, it's a business that we run well over 50 hours per week when only being open 2-3 days to the public due to private orders and catering and we choose that rather than 7 - 12 hour days.

Often some locals will ask us this, I'm not sure why they are so interested in our professional and personal lives, I guess it's out of love or, possibly, it's because they are angels checking up on us? I have no idea, I guess I just don't get the question, nor understand why anyone would have the hubris to ask such a thing. I have never been to a business in my entire life and walked in and asked them what they do when they're not at work. It's okay, we answer it anyway and we're always polite and we always answer... (well, it was okay back in 2023, we understood the question, by 2024 we were a bit frustrated, and now that it's 2026, we've just had it answering the question... So we've added the detailed response here, hopefully you've read this and now you know). You can read more about our faqs and learn all about why we didn't open immediately after purchasing the property, and all of the other troubles we've had, if you really like. We found that a lot of people actually like our frequently asked questions, which is pretty funny because I never thought anybody would read them.

We're from the '80s, sorry, not politically correct, not interested in pleasing everybody. We met some great people, and have only had two people that said something negative about our restaurant being '80s themed. One person said that some of these movies were not appropriate for young kids so we shouldn't promote them on the wall... My response is, If you're the parent, you should make sure they don't watch those movies if you don't like them. Everyone else has loved the movie posters on the wall.

We also had someone say that our magic 8 Ball, which I've never really liked growing up but knew they were popular, was evil and that we were promoting the devil. We simply bought a few of them to sell them because they were popular in the '80s, no more, no less. We weren't promoting the devil. The person was very nice but said that it was an occult thing and that we were helping Satan attract people... I loved the church lady on SNL, but no, it's not Satan! We don't have anything evil, well, I do have an Ash action figure from the movie Evil Dead, but other than that, there is nothing evil, nor are we going to take down something that you find objectionable. There are plenty of other places you can go without movie posters on the wall or '80s toys that you don't like.

Maybe, but probably not... We make great food, go above and beyond the standard pizza with fresh, thin crust, hand tossed pizza that is seasoned to perfection... So why wouldn't we want an award? Well, if it's an actual award by some big network or real food critic, we'd gladly take it. We would love for Dave Portney to stop by. What we don't want, and would not pay for, are vanity awards. See, let me let you in on a little secret, that's not really a secret, you just probably never looked into it. You know those "best of" awards that are always touted by businesses? Those are vanity awards. I get dozens of those offers per month, and I turn them down. See, it's a pay to play scheme. A company sends a fake award that you have to pay for, you get the "award," you then promote that "award," and everyone thinks you won something, and it strengthens your brand. Not a bad deal, but it's very disingenuous.

Me, however (the 1 of 2 owners writing this), has been a marketing expert for over 32+ years now and have always avoided using underhand tactics like a lot of businesses do. I'm not saying everyone who does this is doing something wrong, often they don't know they are doing anything at all and think they are just accepting an award. See, the "award" company will send something telling you how you were voted the "best of" whatever niche you serve, and they offer the award, at a cost. You pay and accept the award and can use a link, and social post, etc. promoting your business. It's not a bad promotional tool, but it's still a vanity award and isn't really an award at all.

Instead, I'll make my own vanity award, giving me the award of "great pizza dude," and I won't market it, won't discuss it, and I won't even charge myself for it! Instead, I'll just mention it on this faq, you will laugh, and then you will reflect on the fact that we make some of the best damn pizza you have ever had. We've even heard we make the best hamburgers, and I didn't even think we were in that category as adding that to our menu was just an afterthought to be honest. The fact is, we put care into not only cooking food right, but seasoning everything to perfection, with custom seasoning that we make.

Anyway, we'll forgo those vanity awards and would rather here what you the customer tells us, rather than what some company selling an award tells us.

As of Memorial day, 2025, we were open every day, 11-8PM through the end of summer. However, we still occasionally got this question. This is a bit tiring to answer, to be quite honest. We have our previous responses to this question below in our FAQs, but we have actually been open pretty much every weekend since July of 2023. Being open only on weekends is hardly, "never open." We also open on other days, for lunches usually on Mondays, and special occasions like the Superbowl, Bike Week, etc. Also, people call us for private business deliveries, family reunions, weddings, camp events, parties, etc. and order in advance for other days. The fact is though, most people who complain that we are never open and do end up coming in, tend to become regulars and are always very kind once they realize that we are good people and there is more to life than complaining about a pizza place that is not open the hours you desire. Good food is beyond petty grievances of a restaurant not being open enough for a few that like to find reasons to complain.

It's now September 2026 (at the time of writing this) and we still get guests coming in asking this, despite our signs saying open on Fridays and Saturdays for the past few years. Nonetheless, every week we get a new regular, so it's all good. We hope to be open 7 days per week by Memorial Day 2027 as long as we have honest and reliable staff... That's the catch though. In the meantime, our hours are simple:

Memorial Day - Labor Day we are open all werekend, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday 11AM until 8PM.

From Labor Day until next Spring, we are open Fridays and Saturdays, 11AM until 8PM.

If you have a business event, wedding, private engagement, birthday party, and want to place a large order (Tyically $500 or more), we can handle your request 7 days per week, most hours, as long as we have at least 48 hours notice, depending on availability and current bookings.

Good question! While I don't like long convoluted answers (if that we're true, these faq's would not be as long as they are), here's one in 3 parts (4 parts if you include the intro), as it's not a simple question as it may seem. We are actually open part of the time, we have just not been open all of the time since purchasing this property in 2021. We don't benefit from not being open. We don't enjoy spending our life savings every month to have a restaurant just sit here... We've lost thousands per month our first few years when not open. so, why would we choose not to be open?

We are only open consistently on Fridays and Saturdays for 3 main reasons, here's the first:

The property was under major disrepair when purchased, and we have spent more than we could have ever expected just to get this operational. Almost every piece of equipment was not in working order and restaurant equipment is not cheap. We spent tens of 6 figures on equipment, repairs, roof, siding, flooring, remodeling, fixing almost everything, paving, and the list is almost endless.

When we first opened in 2021, we felt as though we were doing so under duress due to requirements by insurance that the restaurant be opened within 90 days of purchasing the property. So, imagine having to move, remodel your home and restaurant, and open within 90 days of closing... Yeah, it was tough. We opened though, on August 13th, 2021. We closed the next day for a few months as we hoped would we have staff as we knew we could not run the restaurant full time alone. This leads us to part 3 (staffing).

Good question! While I don't like long convoluted answers (if that we're true, these FAQ's would not be as long as they are), here's one in 3 parts (4 parts if you include the intro), as it's not a simple question as it may seem.

We ARE actually open part of the time, we have just not been open all of the time since purchasing this property in 2021. We don't benefit from not being open. We don't enjoy spending our life savings every month to have a restaurant just sit here... We've lost thousands per month our first few years when not open. so, why would we choose not to be open?

Staffing is another main reason we have not been open full time. Finding staff has been an issue since day 1 and there are signs throughout the town, the region, and the country with the same issues, so it's not unique to us. We never purchased this with the intention of working 100+ hours per week. In fact, we were warned by the previous owners NOT to do that and instead hire staff. While some people like to say "the previous owners did it," as if this is some sort of dictatorship where we must work as indentured servants, the reality is, the previous owners from a few different versions of this place all said that it was not something they enjoyed doing all the time and were worn out doing it. In fact, the restaurant was up for sale for well over 10 years prior to us purchasing it, as can be seen on Google Maps photo archives. Our plan was always to manage and run the restaurant with staffing present. We also heard they were closed much of the time as well, so this isn't new to just us owning the building.

We were open and we did so for 8 months straight in 2022 and most of that was just us working. At first we did curbside pickup so people could try our food and we could open fewer hours that were more managable for us, but we didn't really like doing that as we were really only open a few hours per day and that's not really great for business. At one point we opened with no staff, full time, 6 days per week. We did that for over 6 weeks which took a massive toll on our well being since we never had a break. While it was a great time because we gained established regulars and had a nice time meeting local people, it was not sustainable long term for us to work 6 days per week at the restaurant. For every day we are open 9 hours, that's about 11-12 hours per work, not including other business duties. So, at that point we were working about 80-90 hours per week, yet, we still got branded as "never being open" by some of the locals.

When we did hire people, it made our lives miserable. Unfortunately, like everyone else in this country looking for staff, it's not so easy. People are often lazy, dishonest, and will steal off their employers. We have the receipts (camera footage) of some of these occurrences. We've been at the restaurant for 12 hours straight, before and after opening and closing, and if we step away even for minutes, let alone an hour, we have found that employees don't really care about their responsibilities and sit on their phone. After having some complaints one day in 2022, we had to review camera footage as we heard different stories from customers and employees. Unfortunately, what we saw was disappointing. Some of what we saw was frustrating, and caused us to not want to remain open daily.

Over the years, we've had people steal from us, we have had people try to take credit for certain things. We have the receipts for everything. It's very suprising to see some of the lies and actions from employees. Especially considering since we are very clear we have mulitple 24/7 cameras with audio which is posted and disclosed upon employment. Unfortunately this pattern has continued to this day... Yeah, it's still happening in 2026. So, now, 5 years later, our kids have taken more of a roll when they can, despite being in middle school and high school.

Paying someone $16, $18, or $20+ an hour to tell everyone that calls the restaurant, even if there is no current customers, that it's going to be an hour to do 1 pizza is an example of some of what we have went through. Don't get me wrong, there are long waits sometimes when we are busy, but we had no business one day and had an employee tell everyone it was going to be an hour. Why would they do that? Because in their eyes, they would make their hourly wage whether they worked or not.

We also had someone breaking into our computer/register to steal passwords. All they had to do is work, but they want to sit on their phone and steal food and tell customers inflated times for simple orders on days we didn't so much as break even! Someone stealing merchandise, food, and even oil, is something we have gone through. Someone constantly eating and drinking inventory; another one costing us about $200 per week, by drinking several sodas and energy drinks per day, and constantly stealing food...

Someone literally went through over $200 worth (our cost, not sale price) of inventory in less than 1 week of working for us and spent the majority of their time on the phone with no appreciation of what they were being paid to be there. We explained in the beginning to all of these people, if we are breaking even, there's really not much of a reason to be open, so if they do a good job, they get paid and we break even we would be okay with that as that really only happens durring slow seasons, for more than half the year, we do great anyway.

Years ago we hired one person that their parent got them the job, then they spent months until they could actually start working for one reason or another, only to sit on a stool doing nothing while I was making pizza's and my wife was on the floor scrubbing... We let them go after dealing with this for a week or so. We had someone that we had to argue with repeatedly about washing their hands and wearing gloves, and they felt I was "lecturing them.' It's my duty to make sure everyone is following safety protocols... These are the rules, not just my rules, but the health code! None of these people lasted more than 2 few weeks, yet they had a lasting impact on us. We would rather be open fewer hours than hiring the wrong people like this.

We have had someone tell us that they felt we should work our shifts and always be on duty during their shifts as well... So what's the point of hiring someone than? So we are supposed to spend hours prepping everything in the morning, be there during our shifts and then pay someone $16-$20+ an hour for them to work and essentially stand around to do one task while we do all the work during their shifts? That's the issue, our plan was always to be open around 70 hours per week. There are at least 10 hours or more per week in additional work running a restaurant; that's 80 hours or more. The sad part is, my wife and I run it much smoother when it is just us. It's less stressful that way. We want to pay a good staff so we can open more hours and do the "Breakfast Club" that we announced when we first opened... It's been a dream of ours to offer good coffee and pancakes...

We are now in our 50s and can't work 80 hours or more per week doing this. We wanted to find the right people, work our shifts, work during rushes on their shifts, and be open more hours but until we have honest and reliable staff, this is not possible. Yet, we find ourselves explaining this as some in the town don't seem to understand there is a sense of entitlement by employees and sometimes people in the community who think we should be open and be the only ones working. Again, the previous owners told us this is what drained them and why they didn't like doing it anymore. Our goal from the beginning was opening for breakfast, and being open late, but we have never had the chance yet to offer all this due to lack of staffing.

Sorry, but no, I'm not interested in these kind of people. In cases like this, it's easier to have no employees and be closed or open limited hours than to be desperate and hire just anyone. So that's why we are not always open. I have heard dozens of stories from others who have similar experiences. How would you feel as a business owner to pay someone around $200 per day only to see they not only didn't do their job, but took as much as a day's salary of inventory that week. This is just not sustainable for us to hire people like this.

We had a few over the years that we did let go because it didn't work, but we did like, or that did do a good job, including someone that was here for 3 months, and while there were some issues, overall, we were happy with the person. Unfortunately, we have found it rare to find people like that. Either they moved away or were only temporary. There are not enough working people in the region we are in, or at least not enough reliable ones. We hear that from almost every customer that owns a business in the area.

So, since 2023, we have been open consistently every Friday and Saturday. We were open all summer 2025, and hope to do the same now in 2026, but it all depends on who we can trust to actually work. Either way, you can count on our days, or we can cater for you or you can have a private gathering here other day sof the week but otherwise, this is how it is going to remain until we have capable staff.

We are currently still always hiring, always have a sign out front, and often paying thousands for ads. Ultimately, we will give almost anybody a chance. We hired 4 people this past April, and aside from one that stole from us for a week, everyone else lasted about 1 day. It didn't work for us, so we were honestly right in the begining. I'm not going to wait around to see if it ever gets better. Waiting around to see if someones behavior improves, or if they are the right person for the job, or in a relationship, is often a waste a time.

Fourth reason for not being open regularly the first few years:

Beyond having young grade-school aged children that also needed our attention (that was in 2022 when I wrote this, it's now 2026, they are in their pre-teens and teens now), we had some health issues since moving into the property. In fact, one of the main reasons we stopped opening regular hours in July 2022 was because we were hit hard with Covid-19 for about a month. Afterwards it was fall, and due to lack of staffing, we found it better to open occasionally and for special events rather than being open every day at that point.

We understand not everyone can be empathetic, but the I (the pizza chef) has untreated chronic pancreatitis. So, if there are only 2 adults, with 2 young children in school, it's not possible for us to always be open, especially when the cook often gets acute pancreatitis attacks. While this is more personal than we care to be, we only share because some people have made very rude comments online about us not being open, as if we should be required to be open. The sad thing is, the people that make those comments have never supported our business anyway, even when we are open.

Nonetheless, people like to cause controversy by talking about others while trying to drum up outrage over whatever people like to get outraged about nowadays... Anyway, these are the facts as to why we're not always open and have not been open regular hours for most of the time. There were issues for years of this place not having stable hours, so it's nothing new according to most people we have talked to, and while we would love for that to change, we can't control all of these issues and will handle the issues that we can control, like replacing equipment, fixing up the building, and being open the amount of hours that makes sense for us.

I don't know, do they? I hope so... These save time, and make it so we can refer to these when people ask questions we get tired of answering. There's only so many times you can explain the circumference of a large pizza.

Actually, I now have a real answer to this... Yes, they do! I have had people come in, order and tell me how much they love these FAQs. I would have never thought someone would have read these, but they do. They also thought they were refreshing, honest, and funny. I try, I wrote jokes for a Comedy Central roast once... I'm good like that.

If I wasn't, this would be polished rather than long, and either tedius or fun to read depending on who you ask (though so far everyone has said this has been a fun read). I do wish I was a robot, since you get all kinds of pain in your knees, wrists, and back, in your 50s. As a young whipper snapper (at least that's what the old people called us Gen-X'ers when we were young), you really don't realize the level of daily aches and pains you get. So, I would totally trade in my arms for robot arms and I wouldn't even care about the color... What's up with these young kids concerned about what color phone they have when they get a case to put on it anyway? It just doesn't make sense!

2 fun facts, just for people that made it this far. One involves a bundt cake pan, and the other is Norm Macdonald. My wife and I were once walking our dog in Santa Monica, California and he walked up to us, said hello, asked to pet our dog. He was there with us petting our dog for about a minute and left. Though I was a fan, I didn't really say anything other than, "yeah, of course." In fact, it was out of the blue and it even took a minute for me to process it all. It's a strange but true story. Plus, though I'm a fan, I never act like a fanboy, and I have met and hung out with lots of people, famous or otherwise, and never really kissed up to anyone. I have lots of strange but true stories I could tell, some involving famous people, everyone from Tim Robbins, William Shatner, and even Arnold Schwarzenegger, but you came here to learn about our business and find out about pizza and whatnot, so whatever, but I'll gladly share sometime if you stop by for a bit and if we're not too busy at the restaurant. Just ask!