Circa 1979 Bridgeman’s in Richfield, Minn had the typical children’s menus/place mats/coloring page but I knew of no other restaurant (I was seven years old) that had the light-up order number panel over the swinging kitchen door.

I always chose Chicken Dinner #7. It was merely a beautiful coincidence that it was the same number on the children’s menu/place mat/coloring page as my age. When that number lit up, you knew the waitress was about to bust through the door with your plate.

I will delete that memory from my cache as soon as that tired old hole is gutted.

Pizza Lucé is signing the closing papers this week (yay!!) and hope to have their newest restaurant open mid-Summer (YAY!!).

I love Richfield (thank you Academy of the Holy Angels for allowing me to graduate despite the multiple “infractions”) but, let’s keep it real: Richfield needs some serious help, it looks a little bit like a hangover.

Can Tanek + Pizza Lucé bring Richfield back to the post WWII optimism that it was built on? (Waving a flag, saluting) Y-E-S! A thousand times, yes. I can’t wait. And neither can all of those Holy Angels students with off-campus privileges. (Is that still a thing??)