Fazoli's

According to his family, his memory of that kind of thing was incredible.

He was also working at a local Fazoli's restaurant in Omaha, trying to save money so that he could eventually return to college after being forced to drop out due to financial constraints.

It wasn't where he wanted to be long term, but his life wasn't falling apart either.

He had a plan, a direction, and he had people who cared about him, which is why what happened next makes absolutely no sense.

Now, I know that may sound weird, but the reason he went to the school was because his car was in the shop for repairs.

And he made arrangements to meet up with a friend who was going to meet him at the high school and then take him to work from there.

Now, to put things into perspective, Fazoli's was about four miles away from Jason's home, and he was more than willing to just walk that distance to work.

But in the end, his coworker, Teresa, came to his aid and offered to give him a ride to the restaurant.

...

Fazoli's, they used to have a really good tort- tortellini that had the chicken and bacon and peas in it, and that was so good.

Your poor stomach, man.

Your poor stomach.

Oh, well, thank you.

They shut down the Fazoli's in Lexington.

It's not coming back.

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This episode is brought to you by Jim's Steakhouse and Pub, Kitchenland USA, and Springfield's locally owned Fazoli's.

I started out today to have a little chat about a Springfield favorite, Bambinos.

And I have hit the jackpot because I kind of have the trifecta of Bambinos.

And I think this, I'm hoping this group does, like you have to really target developers.

So we'll use the Fazoli's example because everybody talks about that.

If you want a Fazoli's in your community, it's not that you're going to Fazoli's corporate You're going to developers who will put together a package for a build lease and then convince Fazoli's that they should occupy that.

So I think this group works on that.

They're going to look at the market data, all those kind of things.

Like

you guys went to Fazoli's.

You went to, you went to- No, I didn't take her to Fazoli's.

You went to Arby's and then you went to Arby's again in the same day.

And

It would be any of the jobs that we worked at together.

Definitely Best Buy, and Fazoli's would probably top it all, though.

But Best Buy, working at Best Buy with you was fun too, so.

Oh, hell yeah.

This is where the big bucks

start rolling in.

I'm going to tell you one more story about Fazoli's before we go on to the last question.

They called me and Red in on the day after, I forget which hurricane it was.

So I-

More of the Fazolis

...

I completely understand.

Where are you going to order spaghetti? Because this is what's...

Fazoli's.

You can go to any restaurant you want.

Did you

say

Fazoli's? I did.

I did spaghetti at Fazoli's.

Oh, you