Rally Pizza at The Mill has opened its indoor space for takeout solely after greater than a 12 months. Homeowners Shan Wickham and Alan Maniscalco have additionally expanded lunchtime with a brand new sandwich menu with Sicilian-inspired muffulettas.
The inside will look a bit extra sparse than earlier than the closings.
In the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, Wickham and Maniscalco laid off servers as a result of there wasn’t sufficient work to maintain them on workers whereas the restaurant was take-out solely. A 12 months later, lots of her former staff have moved on to promote actual property, return to high school, or depart the realm. Hiring new workers has been troublesome as each different restaurant is drawing on the identical shrinking pool of workers to reopen its interiors to full capability.
“The one factor stopping us from opening all the way in which isn’t sufficient individuals,” stated Wickham. “Final 12 months it was rest room paper, now it is workers.”
As a part of the reopening, Rally Pizza will lengthen lunchtime. Lunch is served Monday via Friday from 12pm to 3pm, with a brand new menu of muffuletta sandwiches. (The brand new muffuletta menu begins on Tuesday.) Pizzas can be found from 3 p.m.
Maniscalco, additionally a chef, has been making these Sicilian-inspired sandwiches at residence for a few years. Rally Pizza, 8070 E. Mill Plain Blvd., in Vancouver, supplied it as a Tremendous Bowl particular this 12 months, promoting over 100 sandwiches in 5 hours. Including them to lunch appeared like a superb possibility for a quicker lunch service.
“Our lunch enterprise by no means bought as gangbuster as we would like,” stated Wickham.
The sandwich menu features a vegan sandwich with fried chickpea fritters and pesto known as Chickwich and a basic Italian meat-heavy possibility with salami, mortadella, spicy coppa, aged provolone and fontina known as Meat-Cute. All sandwiches come on rallies personal sesame semolina rolls. Elements embody high quality produce from locations like Olympia Provisions and Cow Bell Cheese Store.
Half of the menu is vegan. Salads, small plates, cocktails and desserts are additionally accessible. Lunch is counter service solely.
Because of the restricted workers, Rally Pizza has not reintroduced its reservation system through Open Desk. At current, indoor and out of doors seating is obtainable based on the first-come-first-served precept.
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