![]() Weekdays in the Central Coast’s best known business districts always catch you by surprise-either they are empty like forgotten ghost towns or bustling like Disneyland on free kids pass day.Įnter Tower Pizza and the first thing you will notice is the abundance of children and families gathered around big screen TVs airing popular sporting events. The Christmas lights of Solvang’s main drag were still up, flickering their warm invitations to tourists and wayward locals alike. My fiance and I ventured to Tower Pizza on a cold and gloomy night bundled up in our best California “winter attire” (aka “I refuse to wear socks, I’ll just wear an extra belt or something”). We knew our customers’ names and they knew ours.” “We kind of knew the clientele, since we already had seen and worked with them for so long,” Dunn explained. ![]() That’s when the Dunns decided to take the leap as business owners.īy the time the Dunns took over, they had already built a strong relationship with their customer base. His wife came aboard later, working alongside him until the owners, who originally hailed from Idaho, decided they wanted to move back home. “I just started working my way up from there,” he said. A relative who took over the restaurant in 2004 hired Dunn to help as a pizza delivery boy. Tower Pizza has been in Dunn’s extended family for years. “It was always very supportive here,” Dunn said. PIZZA FOR BREAKFAST? : Tower Pizza’s signature pie, the Idaho, is brunch-inspired, with white sauce, smoked bacon, ham, and hash brown potatoes.ĭuring a phone call squeezed in while on a family holiday, Dunn reminisced about his early days working in Solvang.
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