Franchise Talk

Night pizza trip ban suggested in Swissvale

May 3rd, 2007 | Author: Jack

Swissvale Councilman Jim Bonacci is proposing to prohibit night food deliveries in the borough in response to separate murders of two delivery drivers who worked for a local pizzeria.

“Even though these murders didn’t occur in our town, we have streets that are bad,” Bonacci said.

Bonacci said he doesn’t know if the ban would be legal, but believes it’s worth talking about. He plans to bring it up at tonight’s borough council meeting.

“If they can tell people that they can’t smoke in a building, you would think that this is something we could do,” he said.

Mike Haugh, owner of Amo’s Pizza in Swissvale, said he opposes banning night deliveries. “You can’t do that. Then they’ve won,” he said.

After 20 years in the pizza business, Haugh said he knows his customers well enough to determine which orders sound legitimate and which could mean trouble.

Pizza deliveries would stop before most people’s dinnertime in the winter if a night delivery ban becomes law, said James Powers, director of marketing for Vocelli’s, whose Swissvale shop employed the two slain drivers.

Tony Veltre, owner of Veltre’s Pizza in Swissvale, was more supportive of the proposed ban.

“I don’t know if they can actually do it, but I think something has to be done,” he said.

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