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Popular Iowa pizzeria closing after 10 years in business

Popular Iowa pizzeria closing after 10 years in business
SHUTTING DOWN. TONIGHT IS THE LAST NIGHT. YOU’LL BE ABLE TO GET A SLICE OF PIZZA HERET A ZIPS IN THE ACTUAL RESTAURANT, BUT THEY WILL STILL BE SERVING UP SLICES. DAWSON CHEESING. IT’S AN ART FORM MANINY A DARE WOULD SAY HAS BEEN MASTERED BY ONE OF THEIR ONLY RESTAURANTS. THERE IT IS. YES, I MAKE PIZZAS AND I MAKE A LOT OF PIZSZA AS LONG AS WELL AS EVERYBODY ELSE HERE ZIPS PIZZERIA. OWNED BY JIM AND ZIMMER LINE IT DIDN’T HIT ME UNTIL NOW BUT PREPARING THE DOUGH IN ALL THE INGREDIENTS FOR THEIR PERFECT PIES FEELS A LITTLE DIFFERENT THURSDAY THE RESTAURANTS 10TH ANNIRSVEARY THE RESTROOMS LAST DAY HELP IS HARD TO FIND YOU CAN COME UP WITH A HUNDRED MILLION VARIABLES ABOUTLL A THE REASONS WHY YOU CAN’T FIND HELP AND YOU CAN MAKE EXCUSES ALLOU Y WANT, BUT WE JUST FLAT OUT DON’T HAVE ENOUGH HELPND A WHEN PEOPLE STARTED TO FLOOD IN ONCE TYHE HEARD ZIPS WAS CLOSING THE WORK BECAME OVERWHELMING THE LINE OUT THE DOOR WEDNESDAY NHTIG WITH AN HOUR AND 40 MINUTE WTAI TIME THE RESTAURANT SERVED 460 PIZZAS SO MANY TYHE RAN OUT OF DOUGH. IT’S NOT TO BE A CITY RECORD IN ADAIR POPULATION. 814. I CAN’T THANK THE PEOPLE ENOUGH FOR LOVING US. I MEAN, REALLY IT WASN’T FOR THEM. I WOULD WE WOULDN’T BE HERE AND I WOULDN’T HAVE DONE THIS FOR 10 YEARS. AND WHILE JIM WILL TELL YOU HIM. OF 10 YEARS IS ENOUGH. HE’S NOT FINISHED JUST YET A 28 FOOT FOOD TRAILER IS ONHE T WAY JIM AND TAMMY PLANNED TO HAUL IT ALL ACROSS THE STATE. I CAN ONLY IMAGINE BUT THE MAN WHO SAYS HE COULD TALK THE EARS OFF A DEAD TREE. I’M GONNA MISS THOSE TWO. IT SAYS ONE THING JUST WON’T BE THE SEAM HERE. WE'V’ GOT SOME GREAT PEOPLE THAT I REALLY FEEL BAD FOR BUT WE HAVE A LOT OF THOSE PEOPLE AND IT’S GONNA BE HARD. ISTH SO N
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Popular Iowa pizzeria closing after 10 years in business
A popular pizza joint is throwing in the towel Thursday, 10 years to the day since they opened. Zipp's Pizzeria announced they were closing three weeks ago and said they have been slammed ever since — Wednesday night set a record for pizzas served: 460.But owners Jim and Tammy Zimmerline said help is hard to find. "You can come up with a hundred million variables about all the reasons you can't find help and you can make all the excuses you want, but just flat out don't have enough help," Jim Zimmerline said.And while Jim will tell you himself, 10 years is enough, he's not finished yet. A 28-foot food trailer is on the way — the Zimmerlines plan to haul it all across the state. But the man who said he could talk the ears off a dead tree said one thing just won't be the same."We've got some great people that I'm really going to feel bad for," Jim Zimmerline said as his eyes watered and his voice cracked. "We got a lot of those people and it's going to be hard because we'll miss them."More from Beau Bowman:

A popular pizza joint is throwing in the towel Thursday, 10 years to the day since they opened.

Zipp's Pizzeria announced they were closing three weeks ago and said they have been slammed ever since — Wednesday night set a record for pizzas served: 460.

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But owners Jim and Tammy Zimmerline said help is hard to find.

We've got some great people that I'm really going to feel bad for

"You can come up with a hundred million variables about all the reasons you can't find help and you can make all the excuses you want, but just flat out don't have enough help," Jim Zimmerline said.

And while Jim will tell you himself, 10 years is enough, he's not finished yet. A 28-foot food trailer is on the way — the Zimmerlines plan to haul it all across the state.

But the man who said he could talk the ears off a dead tree said one thing just won't be the same.

"We've got some great people that I'm really going to feel bad for," Jim Zimmerline said as his eyes watered and his voice cracked. "We got a lot of those people and it's going to be hard because we'll miss them."

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