After seven decades in business, one of the most popular restaurants in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, is set to close its doors later this year.<\/p>\n
The owners of Pica\u2019s Restaurant announced the pizza spot’s Upper Darby location will close on a yet-to-be-determined date this summer.<\/p>\n
First established in 1941, Pica\u2019s was founded in West Philadelphia by Frank Pica, Sr., who brought a unique pizza flavor from Italy.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe wanted to share his tradition of what he had in Italy,\u201d Angelina Pica-Oandasan, the restaurant\u2019s current owner, told NBC10. \u201cAnd he would give that to his customers.\u201d<\/p>\n
Frank Pica, Jr., then took over when the restaurant moved to Upper Darby where it remained a staple for decades, earning several fans, including actress, writer and Upper Darby native Tina Fey, who called Pica\u2019s \u201cthe best\u201d during an interview.<\/p>\n
For lifelong customer Joe Quigley, 91, it\u2019s the sauce that has helped him remain a loyal customer since the 1950s.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s the sauce and it\u2019s the people,\u201d Quigley told NBC10. \u201cThey have the knack to hire the right people.\u201d<\/p>\n
In their Facebook post announcing the closure, the pizza spot\u2019s owners wrote they plan to open a new and smaller location in the Delaware County area. Their West Chester location will also remain open.<\/p>\n
They also told customers that any gift cards purchased from the Upper Darby location may be used in the final months before closure or at their West Chester restaurant. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After seven decades in business, one of the most popular restaurants in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, is set to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[60,28,147,149,148,150],"class_list":{"0":"post-2763","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upper-darby","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-pennsylvania","10":"tag-upper-darby","11":"tag-upper-darby-headlines","12":"tag-upper-darby-news","13":"tag-upper-darby-township"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}