Word: pizzas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Daniel and Monika Crotta decided to spice up their San Diego pizza business in 1983, they settled on a police motif. They decorated the store to look like a precinct house and called it the New York Pizza Department, or NYPD, since Monika got her recipes from an uncle in Manhattan. For orders to go, the Crottas hit on the notion of delivering in two white "squad cars." Daniel cleared the idea with the San Diego police. Says he: "They didn't endorse us, but they didn't discourage...
...beyond the innate glamour of the industry, two things little known to the man on the street encourage these amateur Loews to enter the world of cinema. "It's the free pizza and free passes to all the house movies," says Gallagher...
...when he was young. He was traumatized by the Vietnam War. His only son mysteriously disappeared while he was clipping the hedges one afternoon. And his wife divorced him. "Life's a bitch, eh?" remarks his neighbor Harold (George Wendt) while nodding his head and stuffing his face with pizza and Schlitz beer...
...mean, we've always had fish and chips, pizza, hamburgers and hot dogs," he says, "Fast food is very popular among the students...
Area colleges are not being left behind in the mad rush to be trendy, either. Brandeis University has a panorama of fast food choices for its students, including lines for fast food, pizza, and cheesesteak subs in the same building as its regular dining hall...