After 75 years of industrial, Salerno’s Apizza shall be ultimate down its well-known storefront on Barnum Road in Stratford.
“We’re really thankful for the enhance and loyalty you and your households have proven our pizzeria over the last 75 years,” stated proprietor Carlo Salerno in a Fb submit. “Your type phrases and endured patronage have intended the arena to us, and we will be able to cherish the recollections we have now made in combination since 1947.”
The submit has gained greater than 550 likes and 400 stocks. There also are greater than 400 feedback, maximum providing phrases of encouragement for Salerno’s retirement and detailing recollections of occasions on the eating place.
Salerno, who turns 80 this yr, is making plans to near the eating place subsequent month to coincide along with his retirement. Regardless of being a staple in Stratford for just about 8 many years, Salerno stated that COVID, contemporary financial downturns and the group of workers scarcity have had an have an effect on at the trade.Â
“I felt 80 is a great age for me to retire. We’ve got owned and operated Salerno’s for over 75 years and right now, it’s transform more and more tricky for me to stay our doorways open,” Salerno stated on Fb. “We’re thankful to have had the chance to serve you, and we will be able to all the time grasp a unique position in our hearts for the Bridgeport/Stratford house that experience supported us during those many, a few years.”
Salerno’s Apizza at Barnum Road in Stratford.
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Vito and Josephine Salerno, Carlo’s folks, opened the eating place on Park Road in Bridgeport in 1947. In 1970, the eating place moved to its present location in Stratford. Salerno took over the eating place in 2002 after his father died.Â
Except for its pizza, the eating place’s menu comprises conventional Italian-American fare comparable to calzones, ravioli and rooster parmesan. Salerno’s is understood in the community for its plum tomato pies, which can be handiest to be had all the way through the summer season.Â
