Word: iftikhar
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Over the past few months, intrepid Crimson gumshoe Daniela J. Lamas ’03 has reported on the trials and tribulations of the new Tommy’s Pizza owner, Mian Iftikhar. While fighting valiently for the privilege to keep his pizza joint and convenience store open until 3am, Ifttikhar has shared some of his life story and rapid-fire wit with Lamas. Here is that story. Here is that...
...Mian Iftikhar and his wife Bushra immigrated from Pakistan with high hopes in 1986. After years of pumping gas, cooking donuts and finally managing a Papa Gino’s, Iftikhar scraped together the money to purchase Tommy’s House of Pizza nine months ago. Excited to run the late-night Harvard institution and perhaps even open a 24-hour convenience store nearby, Iftikhar approached the city of Cambridge’s License Commission to transfer the pizza permit to his name...
Since his initial visit to the License Commission, the small, soft-spoken Iftikhar’s life has become a series of disappointments. Due to years of noise complaints from the pizzeria’s neighbor, the License Commission refused to grant Iftikhar a permit to close the pizzeria at 3 a.m. last spring—but promised Iftikhar a hearing to reassess the noise situation in six months...
Throughout last spring and this fall, Iftikhar tried to stop cooking pizzas at 2 a.m., but said fire concerns and comon courtesy kept him from forcing hungry students out of the establishment promptly at 2 a.m. He also opened a convenience store two doors down from the pizzeria. But business was suffering. Iftikhar siad the 2 to 3 a.m window of time without freshly cooked pizza brought his sales down 15 percent. And the noise complaints continued...
...When Iftikhar went before the License Commission again for a hearing last week, his request for a permit to close at 3 a.m. was denied once again. Three Cambridge residents, worried about late-night noise from the pizzeria, attended the hearing to lobby for an earlier closing time...