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Brothers To Continue Family Tradition As City Pizzeria Holds Grand Opening

Prime Time Pizza will hold its grand opening Monday in Jamestown, a speedy turnaround for a location that recently housed Yo Burrito on East Second Street. P-J photo by Eric Tichy

The Surrena brothers know how to get down to business, and are ready to prove it on Monday.

Local pizza gurus, Zach and J.R. Surrena, have acquired space in the former Yo Burrito building and have done the necessary work to host a grand opening of their new venture, Prime Time Pizza, this week. The duo said they got into the building Oct. 7 to begin transforming the building from a Mexican restaurant to a pizzeria, and will be ready for business Monday.

“We’re just waiting for the health inspector to come in,” Zach Surrena said on Friday. “We got in and got straight to work. We didn’t mess around.”

The pair decided they wanted to get back into the pizza business after their father closed down his Warren, Pa. shop in September. Zach Surrena said he and his brother wanted to “do their own thing.”

“Pizza runs in our family,” he said. “It’s been in our family for 25 or 26 years.”

Previously, Zach Surrena said his family owned a few pizza businesses in Jamestown, including Rudyz Pizza and Wings and Things. He said he has been posting on social media about the upcoming restaurant, and many of their former customers said they were excited for the Surrena’s new operation in town. Those on social media told the pair they were excited for the opportunity to try their recipes again.

“We’re going to be offering pizza, subs, salads, pepperoni balls, deep fried pickle chips and later, we’ll try jalapeno poppers to see how those go over,” Zach Surrena said.

Getting the business up and running fast required a lot of hard work, but the pair said they were determined to get it done quickly. The efforts included getting the facility cleaned up and getting equipment in to make it operational.

“We’ve been putting in a lot of work and working day and night,” Zach Surrena said. “We’ve been putting in 12-15 hours a day.”

Overall, the brothers are excited to get their restaurant up and running. He said owning a pizza shop is their dream and they will do whatever is necessary to make it happen. Surrena said the restaurant already has a slogan.

“You’ve had the rest, come have the best,” he said.

The location at 522 E. Second St. in Jamestown was previously the site of Yo! Burrito, which closed in late September. The previous owners operated the Mexican-American restaurant at the location for a short time, but found that they were unable to continue operations due to having full-time jobs outside the restaurant business.

Prime Time Pizza will be open seven days a week from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., but will be closed on all major holidays. For more information, find them on Facebook under “Prime Time Pizza.”

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