The pizzeria with a boxing theme once touted itself with the slogan, “Round after round best pizza in town.”
Rocky's Pizza will reopen at Five Points South in the former Little Italy space, at 1924 11th Ave. South. The famous ‘80′s era pizzeria with a boxing theme that once touted itself with the slogan, “Round after round best pizza in town,” is ready to re-open.Now the long-awaited return of Rocky’s Pizza is set for Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 2.
During its last incarnation, Dunlap’s son, Joshua, was in charge of the kitchen at Rocky’s while his father ran the front of the restaurant. “I would come in before opening and did food prep work before my college classes at UAB started. I ran the phones on evenings and weekends. I filled in as delivery driver when needed and set up catering jobs. I was a runner for short errands needed to keep daily operations flowing.
“In hindsight, we regret announcing when we did,” Mercado Angeles said. “At the time we originally announced that we were coming back we genuinely believed that we would be open within a few months. Obviously, we were wrong.”“We didn’t want to go into debt with a bank,” Mercado Angeles said. “That was something important to us. So, when something would come up that we needed to fix or purchase that we hadn’t originally budgeted for it was on us to figure it out at the time. That slowed us down.
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