A national trade publication recently profiled one of Wilson’s dining mainstays.
Wilson’s Pizza Shop, in business for nearly a half-century, was the focus of the piece, which ran in Pizza Today.
The focus of the piece was the family of Al and Roz Wilson, who founded the business in 1963. Now in the hands of their son, Allen, and his wife Wendy, Wilson’s Pizza Shop has persevered through tough times to become a model business, the magazine said.
That model, Allen Wilson said, is reliant upon customer service.
“You don’t have to make your buck on the first pizza you sell,” he said. “Repeat customers is the thing, and making people happy when they get your product.”
Higher gas costs and declining wages have pushed the industry away from delivery, the Allens said, and toward carryout; 85 percent of the shop’s business is carry-out, the magazine reported. That carryout business is impossible to build without good word-of-mouth, the Wilsons said.
“We’re on our fourth and fifth generation of pizza customers,” Wendy Wilson said. “It’s been passed down from generation to generation.”
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The Niagara Frontier could be represented on the Canadian version of Monopoly that’s in production.
The cities that Hasbro will put on a Canadian version of the popular banking board game will be determined by public vote. Niagara Falls isn’t among the 65 cities on the list, the Niagara Falls (Ontario) Review reported, but a wild card vote is being held to fill two board spots.
The city that receives the most votes will occupy the spot held by Boardwalk on the standard version of the game. Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, led the voting as of mid-January, with Niagara Falls coming in at No. 4 on the wild card vote. Winning cities will be announced in June, with the game coming out in July.
Voting is taking place at monopolyvote.ca.
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A Tonawanda man was recently involved in a scary auto accident on a Connecticut highway.
The News-Times of Danbury, Conn., reported that 37-year-old Matthew Buffone was rescued by emergency personnel after his car flipped over near I-84 in Newtown. He struck another vehicle before rolling over, the paper reported.
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