Pagliacci Pizza Broadway

Voted Western Washingtons Best Pizza 20072008 and 19972004 by Evening Magazine KINGTV A Taste of the Pagliacci Story My brother my cousin and I all Italians opened Pagliacci Pizza on the Ave in the University District in 1979 It didnt have a cash register or a safe It would be more than a year before we would get around to putting up a sign It was not a very businesslike business We just wanted a place where we could get good pizza It was as simple as that The place did make good pizza just as we knew it would It became popular just as we had hoped It even made a profit and that was nice If that is all that had happened it wouldnt be much of a story What surprised us was how much people cared Pagliacci became this odd place where the customers and the employees lobbied incessantly on behalf of what they said was the soul or the personality of the place We had never experienced anything like it I became curious and started spending my lunch hours there then my evenings then weekends I got caught up in whatever it was that was affecting the customers and the crew I learned I loved the place I loved working with the employees and serving the customers I too got in touch with the soul and personality of the place Thats when I realized that I really wanted to quit my job and work at Pagliacci