ABC PIZZA
With plenty of tables inside, ABC Pizza House is great for eating in as well as placing an order for pick-up. The menu at ABC Pizza House features a number of specialty pizzas, grinders and salads; there is even a Sunday special for a large pizza. ABC Pizza House is conveniently located in the Granby Town Center.
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Johnson has turned ABC Pizza into a classroom of sorts; he estimates that he has hired between 165 to 200 high school students to work in the restaurant since he took over.
“I consider this place a learning place,” Johnson said. “In a certain way, I find myself a teacher. I teach the kids not only how to work, because, after a while, anybody can make a pizza or a grinder or a salad. But they have to learn about themselves.” One of the things they have to learn is to not burn themselves on the oven. “When they first burn themselves, then they’re really an employee,” Johnson said. But the learning experience comes from taking orders over the telephone, cashing someone out and making sure they do all their required responsibilities for the day. “But most of all they’re learning about themselves,” Johnson said. “They can talk to people. They can work with people one on one. They can answer a phone in a polite manner. Things they never knew they could do. Things they never knew they’d have to do. They were told they would have to grow up. But the two years I get with these kids, they’re so much different between when they come in and when they leave.” His employees, like his customers, swear by him. His manager, Rob Stuart, has worked at ABC for 30 years (he took a break in the early '80s to work as Gary Burghoff’s personal assistant - Burghoff played Radar O’Reilly on M.A.S.H.). “I love working here,” Stuart said. “I like the people I work with; I love the town. I’ve been to a lot of different places, but I always come back to Granby.” And, there are the high school students who have passed through the doors. “You learn a lot. For a lot of kids, it’s their first job,” said former employee Nikki Minichino, a 2005 graduate of Granby Memorial High. “For everyone having a first job, it’s scary, you know? But it’s very comforting here. You have the regulars come here and you get to know Granby better. It’s like a family here." |
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