The pungent smell of spicy hot sauce greeted customers at Rosemary’s Pizza in Geneva on Sunday evening, as the pizza parlor employees rushed from table to fryer and back again.
Hot wings were the item of the day and Herb Johnston was the man of the meal Sunday, mixing up batch after batch and not so gracefully coating each chicken wing in the bright orange sauce.
Rosemary’s Pizza owner Renee Wallace said Super Bowl Sunday means double the business of a regular Sunday. Wallace, who makes the pizza dough fresh each day, said she toiled over the mixer.
“But I have to say, the hot wings are the best seller,” she said. “But you know, we have the best wings in town.”
In Austinburg Township, Joe Quinn, owner of Quinn’s Family Grille and Bar, was working to feed an army of football fans.
Quinn and his staff prepared 20 pounds of fried chicken, 10 pounds of rigatoni, 80 pounds of chicken wings, 10 pounds of chicken tenders and countless pitchers of beer for the free buffet offered during the game.
“I know it sounds like a lot of food,” Quinn said, “but people come to eat and have a good time and I’m not about to disappoint anyone.”
This was the first Super Bowl for the restaurant, which opened at the former Buck’s Grille and Bar last year.
“It takes some planning and some creativity to be successful in these economic times,” Quinn said.
Quinn isn’t missing a single event, as he will open the restaurant’s free buffet for a NASCAR Daytona 500 party Sunday afternoon and then switch to a more romantic gear for the evening, when customers will dine on lobster and prime rib for Valentine’s Day.
“We have family night with a magician every Monday night, and the kids love it,” he said.
At the Old Mill Winery in Geneva, cook Brando Stevenson grilled countless wine burgers for open mic night, which had a few Super Bowl fans mixed into the crowd.
“Our wine burgers are the most popular item on the menu,” he said. “The winery is famous for them.”
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