Name of business: Art’s Pizza No. 1
Opened: Soft opening June 8; grand opening June 22
Owner: Scott and Nayleen Poole own the restaurant, along with the first Art’s Pizza on Broadway. The restaurant is a family tradition started in 1956 by Nayleen’s grandfather, Art Portwood. The Pooles’ son, Ryan Poole, manages the new location.
Location: 4762 S. Scatterfield Road (in front of Wal-Mart center); 642-ARTS; eatatarts.com
Hours: 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday; 11 a.m. to midnight Friday and Saturday
Employees: Ryan Poole hired about 25 new workers for the new restaurant and about 15 new workers to fill in at the first restaurant when the new one opened.
Menu: Art’s Pizza No. 1 offers a lunch buffet from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. daily with pizza, garlic bread, salad, pasta and dessert pizza. “It kind of gives people the opportunity to sample a little bit of what we’ve got,” Ryan Poole said. The restaurant also offers dine-in and carry-out options, including pizza, sandwiches, salads, pastas and bread. Art’s pizza is infamous for its fresh ingredients and secret family recipe for Italian roast beef and Italian sausage, Poole said, thus starting the restaurant’s slogan, “Often imitated, never duplicated.” “A lot of people say they can make pizza the same,” Poole said. “You can always tell the difference.”
In the manager’s words: Poole said Scatterfield Road was the perfect location for the new Art’s. “If you want to do something or have somewhere you want to go, you come this way,” he said. “Things have really been picking up since the awareness has been raised. Watching the numbers go up every day is exciting.”
The new store isn’t the end of the Pooles’ plans for Art’s. “We have a large following of really loyal customers,” he said. “This is just a baby step for us.”
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