It was great!ĭickmann: I started out when I was 12 and continued through high school. The free show started at 8 o’clock, so people were getting in their seats at 4:30. ![]() The first night I worked, in 1972, the Jackson Five performed. (laugh)ĭickmann: I sold pop up and down the stands at the Missouri State Fair, which booked big acts. I also ran track and cross country, but that was a lot of pizzas ago.ĭickmann: No. So we’d play in the morning, eat those long (powdered candy) Pixy Stix for lunch, then play again in the afternoon. In the late ’60s, there were over 700 kids in the local soccer league. S-R: What were your interests growing up?ĭickmann: Sports. When I graduated from high school, I followed them out. My parents and sister moved to Western Washington for its milder weather. (Hint: It’s not Super Bowl Sunday.)ĭickmann: Sedalia, Missouri, a town of about 25,000.ĭickmann: My brother was a nuclear engineer at the naval shipyards in Bremerton. But 80 percent of their sales are delivery or carryout.ĭuring a recent interview, Dickmann discussed working with Michael Jackson, conventional wisdom and the busiest days of the year. The couple have four locations: the North Side, near north, Spokane Valley and the downtown STA Plaza. “Our oldest child is named Rita, so Pizza Rita is sort of a play on ‘pizzeria,’ ” Dickmann explained. “But I’d rather be scammed 100 times than lose one good customer,’’ he says.ĭickmann and his wife, June, opened their first pizza shop on West Indiana almost three decades ago. Predictably, some people take advantage of Dickmann’s generous policy. “We don’t guarantee eternal bliss – we’re not the Dalai Lama – but we do guarantee happy.” “There’s satisfied, there’s happy, and there’s eternal bliss. “We don’t say your money back if you’re not satisfied,” says Dickmann. The floor looked like it had not been mopped in months.Brian Dickmann insists his Pizza Rita pizzas are Spokane’s best. The restaurant itself was not cleanly at all, I was a bit unsure of even getting my drink due to the drink station being so nasty. The rest of our meal was so so.just two of us and it was quite expensive for a pizza dive. They then kindly remade the pizza with no sauce and it was better. I explained to him and we have eaten gluten free pizza all over the state of Texas and had never run across this issue. Again, I asked the server about this and he blamed it on the gluten free pizza. Once she finally got the pizza and tried to take a bite the entire section of cheese just slid off every time. I can tell you if you are eating gluten free(which my daughter was) to not order pizza here. So after bussing our own table we waited 45 minutes for our order to arrive. I mentioned this to the guy who took our order and he just shrugged his shoulder and said "I don't know what to tell. I am just not sure where to start! After ordering our meal there was not one clean table to be found.
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