Tag: Montoni's

Sunday, gravely

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You never know when you’ll get the urge for a slice of Montoni’s Gazpacho Pizza…good thing they’re open til 2 AM (4 AM on the weekends)…

Open til two AM? Four AM? Must be an Ohio thing. The bars where I live close at 3 AM, and that’s  on the weekends. Ye gods, who runs Montoni’s at night? Who patronizes Montoni’s after midnight? Doesn’t Westview roll up the sidewalks after 10? At least it explains the poor “lighting” in this strip: Funky and Crazy are having this conversation at 2:30 am (Crazy Harry, because he’s crazy, wears his postal uniform all the time).

I find Funky’s comment in panel 3 to be telling: “Hopefully, I’ve done what I can to help Montoni’s weather the downturn.” Sounds like he’s not convinced he’s done everything he can. “We’ll cut back hours and hopefully that’ll be enough…hopefully I won’t have to do anything else.” Hope is not a strategy, pizza man.

Sunday Will Never Be the Same

Um. I’m not Italian, but a lot of Italians I know enjoy their Sunday dinner very early evening/late afternoon. Opening Montoni’s at five? Great business move. Instead of cutting back hours…how about letting some “staff” go? Here’s my list of everyone who works or has sought employment at Montoni’s:

  1. Les (weekends)
  2. Khan
  3. Cory (only on Valentine’s Day or after getting in trouble at school)
  4. Wally
  5. Maddie
  6. Crazy Harry (not an employee but drives Maddie on deliveries)
  7. Summer
  8. Keisha (only asked for a job so as not to be outdone by Sum’ Mo’)
  9. Rachel (longest-tenured Montoni’s employee)
  10. Nameless girl seen here with Rachel
  11. The two blondes with Rachel in the upper-right of this (pre-time-jump) picture
  12. Chef Carlo Mastriani: one of the characters featured on the website whom we have yet to see in the strip.

Let me know if I forgot anybody. And what’s with these two leering at each other in panel three? Per favore, hope they’re not gonna go at it right there on the counter…

Last of the Montoni’s

Mutt and Jeff Funky and Les return to a typically somber Westview Welcome. Now that these birds have returned to Ohio, isn’t it time for Tony to fly home as well? Bet he’ll be pleased to see what a good steward Funky has been to the business that bears his family name. At any rate, Tony’s sure to feel happy that at least Les was able to leverage this business trip to seal his book deal, right? Right?

If I Can't Make It There, Can't Make It Anywhere…

The sign on the door says it all: Out of Business. Funky and Les bid arrivederci to the New York store. But in a final “F you” to the landlord and to all New Yorkers, before locking up, the boys have left every  faucet in the place wide open…note the water just beginning to seep out at the bottom of the window in panel 2. Take that, City of Broken Dreams!