scary encounter with the owner. my family and i had a very frightening experience at caserta pizza tonight.. when my wife and i were attending uri, friday nights were date nights and date nights often meant pizza at the caserta pizza on campus. feeling a bit nostalgic, i suggested to my wife that the we all go to caserta pizza in providence. we drove 40 minutes north from south county. i was genuinely excited to be goingbackto caserta pizza. we pulled into the parking lot and went to end of the row. there was no way to pull forward and so i turned around to see if it was safe tobackout. there was a white lexus right on my bumper. i put my car in reverse, keeping the brakes on, to signal my intention. the drive, a young lady, honked her horn at me and didn't move. i started to move slowly backward. she startedbackthen stopped and honked her horn again. the older gentleman in the passenger's seat got out of the car and walked over to mine. i rolled my window down and he started lecturing me on parking lot etiquette. really? i told him that i was backing out and suggested that he getbackin his vehicle. he just stood there. i had my wife and my ten year old daughter in my car. this was a very uncomfortable situation. thankfully, the young girl had backed her car out all of the way so that we could safely egress. after a couple of minutes discussion, we decided to find a parking space along the street and go to the restaurant. we made our waybackto restaurant – btw, this was at about 530pm on a friday night and so we didn't feel unsafe per se – watching out for the tough guy. he was no where in sight. we walked into the restaurant and guess who's behind the counter? the same guy who we met in the parking lot. he saw us come in and sneered. i said to my wife, “the tough guy works here.” and we turned around and walked out.
the good news is that we walked down the road to bob and timmy's. i had heard they made a good pie and so we went there and, once i cooled down, had an enjoyable evening with a delicious pizza and very pleasant service.
post script....so i go online to find out who owns caserta. i wanted to tell them about our unfortunate experience. found a picture and video of the current owner of caserta pizza. turns out that he's my friend from the parking lot. long story short...it was his parking lot and his restaurant; so it's certainly within his right to do as he pleases there .... including harassing a customer. well done!