The Pizza Factory To Close After 42 Years Of Service

After 42 years of signature extra garlicky Caesar dressing, pasta and pizza, The Pizza Factory is closing its doors on Jan. 29.

BOUZINELO’S BRAND OF OLIVE OIL AVAILABLE AT The Pizza Factory CAME FROM HIS HOME VILLAGE OF KOUTSI, GREECE. THE TREES were planted over 50 YEARS AGO THAT MADE THE OIL. Photo by David Tuan bui.

The restaurant had posted a notice on its doors informing its customers of its closure next month. Peter Bouzinelos owned and operated the business since April of 1980, five years after arriving in Peterborough in 1975.

Since The Pizza Factory’s opening, it has remained in the same location, on the corner of Lansdowne Street and The Parkway.

THEIR CAESAR DRESSING IS SOLD IN JARS AND IS AVAILABLE EITHER AT THE RESTAURANT OR SELECT GROCERY STORES IN PETERBOROUGH AND THE SURROUNDING AREA Photo by David Tuan bui.

The Pizza Factory specializes in Greek and Italian food and offers specialties such as pizza, ribs, chicken, panzerotti and souvlaki.

They sell their own brand of products under the name ‘Peter’s Famous Foods’ such as their signature Caesar dressing, reputedly known for its extra garlicky taste.

They also sell olive oil where the olives are grown in Bouzinelos’s hometown of Koutsi, Greece and were planted over 50 years ago. The olives are harvested, hand-picked and cold-pressed by his brother who then ships them to the business for packaging.

Last June, the restaurant started selling two-feet slices of pizza — that was the largest in town — that stemmed from Bouzinelos’s son Kenny (who also works at The Pizza Factory). He got the idea from seeing other pizzerias in Toronto and New York and wanted to replicate that for Peterborough.

Gift certificates remain available at the restaurant but must be used by Jan. 29.

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