Pizza, Pizza, Daddy-O
What you’ll find within a 2.5-mile radius in Byesville and Cambridge is pizza shops. Fifteen come up on the Google radar. FIFTEEN! What you won’t find is a solo coffee shop. Cool Beans on Cambridge’s main strip closed down since we moved here. The other location that comes up on a Google search is TJ Cinnamon’s, which is actually located within a fast food restaurant.
Coffee is considered a luxury here and it’s easy enough to make. Pizza is an all-around favorite food that takes some time because of the dough. It takes just the right amount of work to make it worthwhile to buy instead of make. Unless you’re Charity Pryor or Lori P., which, let’s admit it, most of us are not.
Each pizza shop has its gimmick that distinguishes it from the others. Little Caesars can offer pies for $5 because it’s a national chain and it can’t be rivaled for volume. Wally’s makes huge rectangular trays of pizza perfect for parties and technically qualifies as a chain because it has two locations, one in Cambridge and one in Byesville. Some would agree that hands down, the best pizza in Byesville is made by Plus One, also a local chain. Papa John’s has “better ingredients” and offers coupons in the Sunday Jeffersonian. Dominoes, another chain, offers pizza for the same price as Little Caesar’s and brags about their seasoned crust. My favorite is the big sign out front of Galaxy Pizza on Mother’s Day: “Your mother called. She wants you to pick up a delicious pizza from Galaxy.” Galaxy also has one store in Byesville, one in Cambridge.
Either the gimmicks work or pizza itself works, but the towns of Cambridge and Byesville love themselves some cheesy pie. The true sign that tourism is helping the economy of these two towns will be when a coffee shop can stay in business.
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June 26th, 2010 at 6:25 am
It is my understanding that Tim Hortons will try to succeed where no coffee shop has succeeded before. For the sake of this discussion, the question is: Will they have tables for people to sit at? Because even today, we can get specialty coffee at places like Sheetz, which we frequent during our service breaks. It’s a carryout, though, not a place to sit and relax(if coffee has that effect on you) or to do some work over free wi-fi.