Big Welfare Daddy
June 26th, 2008, 3:38 pm · 4 Comments · posted by rlederman
Your tax dollars are going to help open a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant. The three Republicrats who sit in the Allen County commissioners office will explain that this is not corporate welfare, but what else do you call it when tax money goes to support a business?
Anyway, though reporter Lima News reporter Bart Mills didn’t point this out in his story, Dan Wilkinson – Big Daddy from his Ohio State days – also played for the Detroit Lions.
OSU standout tied to Chuck E. Cheese in Lima
June 26, 2008 - 2:49PM
LIMA - A $475,000 state grant will help clear the way for the area’s first Chuck E. Cheese. And the owner may be as well-received as the restaurant.
The Ohio Department of Development has approved a $475,000 grant to Allen Place that will be used to help purchase and redesign an Elida Road building into a Chuck E. Cheese. And among the owners of the planned pizza place is former Ohio State and Cincinnati Bengals football standout Dan Wilkinson.
A Chuck E. Cheese spokesman said Wilkinson and other investors are set to complete a deal with the chain for the Lima store. The store will probably open later this year, according to Chuck E. Cheese spokesman John Jauquet.
June 26th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
Thanks for the heads up on Chuck E. Don’t think I will spend any money there, sounds like everyone has given them enough already.
June 27th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
I wonder if I can get a GRANT to start my own pizza joint? I even make Pizza Soup!!! And my ‘ALL AMERICAN PIZZA” rocks. If you like hot dogs and american cheese.(.”.the rest is a secret..”)…then maybe I should get a grant to. DAnimal’s pizza soup kitchen…yumm yumm
July 1st, 2008 at 12:17 pm
On this one I agree with RL,Scant and Danimal. Would buy from the danimal pizza shop also. IMO there is no “free market” in this country,
its just an illusion. Not reality based, especially in the energy markets.
July 1st, 2008 at 5:35 pm
Dan,
We agreed on something, I knew that you and I would find some comman ground somewhere. I will buy one of Danimals pizzas, but I am tight with my money so I will wait till he offers some coupons.