Pasquinis Pizzeria
Address:
1310 S Broadway, Denver, CO 80210
Phone:
(303) 744-0917
Hours:
- Mon: 11am-11pm
- Tue: 11am-11pm
- Wed: 11am-11pm
- Thu: 11am-11pm
- Fri: 11am-12am
- Sat: 11am-12am
- Sun: 2pm-11pm
Payment:
Cuisine:
Pizza
Nice to Know:
- Good For Kids Yes
- Noise Level Loud
- Parking Street
- Accepts Credit Cards Yes
- Good For Groups Yes
- Recommended Meal Lunch, Dinner
- Outdoor Seating Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible Yes
Other Details:
Pasquini's Pizzeria was started in 1986 by Tony Pasquini with the help of his mother Judy Pasquini. In 1986 Tony was a senior in college when Judy inherited a run-down, out-of-business pizza place with white walls and a fluorescent-lit dining room of 8 Formica-topped tables. Tony had worked in pizza places since he was ten years old and was anxious to use his newly acquired business school training Tony applied for a loan from the bank down the street and was summarily turned down, after all it was 1986, the height of a bad oil economy in Denver. In the midst of a Savings and Loan crisis, banks were not loaning money to anyone. Undaunted, Tony opened Pasquini's Pizzeria with a loan of $300 (for food supplies) from his uncle and 1,000 business cards that said, "Present this card and receive One Free Slice of Pizza at Pasquini's Pizzeria." Tony worked at the Pizzeria from open until close doing everything. In the beginning there were more calls from bill collectors than from customers. Tony tried every type of marketing there was--from newspaper advertising to signs on shopping carts at the local supermarket. Every penny he made he spent on more advertising or fixing up the restaurant.
Pizza
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