Round Table Pizza

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When the Sierra Del Oro Town Shopping Center opened in the Fall of 1990, Ralphs Grocery store was the anchor in the middle, with a donut shop holding down the fort on the east end, and Round Table Pizza keeping it real on the west.
In between, over the last twenty years, a multitude of shops have come and gone, from gymnastics schools, to Hallmark greeting card shops, from wax flower boutiques to mom n’ pop video rental stores that kept porn behind a blue curtain (RIP, DV’s Video).
Ralphs is still there, with service as rude as ever and prices higher than they should be – but you love it because there’s nowhere else to go unless you hit 6^th Street or are willing to drive up Ontario Ave to Albertsons or Vons.
The donut shop remains, but that friendly East Indian guy who used to own it has retired and now a mean Korean lady runs the show. Actually I shouldn’t say that she’s mean — I was, after all, the one who asked to use the restroom after buying only one plain glazed.
Round Table?
The pizza is more for nostalgia purposes, if you’re from Corona. Memories of ditching school to play the Neo Geo machine, which is still there, flashbacks of pizza that was never very good, but the context in which you ate it was.
Putting coins in the Fred Flintstone egg machine to get a crappy prize that still made it worth begging your mom for two quarters…
«Yabba Dabba Doo, I want to be friends with you!»
Yes, they still serve beer in pitchers. Except you’re old enough to buy it now, and realize it isn’t as good as buying a pitcher at Hooters, or even buying a sixer from Ralphs next door.
The pizza is better than Pizza Hut and Dominos and Papa Johns, which isn’t much of an accomplishment, but at least there are booths to make out in.
Admit it – you used to do that.
Are the truant police after you? Have you got twenty bucks you borrowed from dad?
Hide at Round Table. The workers won’t even pretend to care you’re cutting class, kid.
It’s a dive bar that isn’t a bar. Hidden in the corner of a forgotten strip mall that everyone and no one goes to.
Play Street Fighter II. If you’re cool and a regular the owner will disable the lock on the machine so that you can play for free.
If you wait until 4pm, a swaggery hot piece always comes in, and they say no one’s ever beaten him when he uses Chun Li or Ryu.
How do I know?
He’s me, lover.
Or, at least he was.
The «hot piece» thing is still true, though.
Average price of large pizza: ± $ 15.99
Value of reliving your childhood: painful, and priceless, sweetheart.