Quote:Tishana Holmes learned a love for food from her father, a culinary chef in her native Tennessee where he operates a catering business.
She is bringing those kitchen skills to Covington, with her husband, former Cincinnati Bengals player Adam "Pacman" Jones, with EndZone Pizza, named as a nod to the other business that brought the couple to the region.
"We put in a lot of work to make sure we come into the community and just represent very well," Holmes said. "We want to come into the community and add to what you already have, and just add our flair to it."

(06-16-2019, 09:54 PM)BFritz21 Wrote: Mods, sorry if this is in the wrong spot, but he's a former Bengal, and this is pretty much in Cincinnati, so I figured it should go here.

Pacman and his wife, Tishana Holmes, are opening a pizza joint in Covington, Kentucky, which is the town you enter when you cross the bridge from the west side of Cincinnati (but it's actually in East Covington).  It's one of the lower-income areas of the city (not horrible, but not great), so hopefully it will be a nice place for people to go, provide employment to people, and just hopefully build the area.


There's about three more paragraphs about things like what they're offering- including wings, one of which is named the Pac Attack, another is after Chad (the Ocho spice), Ickey Woods (the Ickey Shuffle, naturally), Andrew Whitworth (the Whitworth), and the late Chris Henry (Slim Henry sauce).  

It doesn't look like there's any TVs up yet, but I think they could get big crowds in their on Sundays for Bengals games.  

His wife sounds like she knows what she's doing in training the chefs, so I'll have to go check it out sometime!

(06-16-2019, 09:54 PM)BFritz21 Wrote: Mods, sorry if this is in the wrong spot, but he's a former Bengal, and this is pretty much in Cincinnati, so I figured it should go here.

Pacman and his wife, Tishana Holmes, are opening a pizza joint in Covington, Kentucky, which is the town you enter when you cross the bridge from the west side of Cincinnati (but it's actually in East Covington).  It's one of the lower-income areas of the city (not horrible, but not great), so hopefully it will be a nice place for people to go, provide employment to people, and just hopefully build the area.


There's about three more paragraphs about things like what they're offering- including wings, one of which is named the Pac Attack, another is after Chad (the Ocho spice), Ickey Woods (the Ickey Shuffle, naturally), Andrew Whitworth (the Whitworth), and the late Chris Henry (Slim Henry sauce).  

It doesn't look like there's any TVs up yet, but I think they could get big crowds in their on Sundays for Bengals games.  

His wife sounds like she knows what she's doing in training the chefs, so I'll have to go check it out sometime!

(06-17-2019, 12:28 AM)Shake n Blake Wrote: You're fine. Pacman is retired and a former Bengal. If we was still playing for say - Denver - then it'd usually go in around the NFL.

As someone who spent his first 30 years in and around Covington, west side of Cov probably isn't the best spot for Pacman. Not that it's ever been a great place, but Cov is really run down with heroin addicts over the last 10 years or so. It's an epidemic down there. I guess as long as he's not in there flipping pizzas and is very hands off, he should be fine..but for someone who is so prone to finding trouble, he should definitely avoid hanging around that area. 

(06-17-2019, 12:28 AM)Shake n Blake Wrote: You're fine. Pacman is retired and a former Bengal. If we was still playing for say - Denver - then it'd usually go in around the NFL.

As someone who spent his first 30 years in and around Covington, west side of Cov probably isn't the best spot for Pacman. Not that it's ever been a great place, but Cov is really run down with heroin addicts over the last 10 years or so. It's an epidemic down there. I guess as long as he's not in there flipping pizzas and is very hands off, he should be fine..but for someone who is so prone to finding trouble, he should definitely avoid hanging around that area. 

(06-17-2019, 12:28 AM)Shake n Blake Wrote: You're fine. Pacman is retired and a former Bengal. If we was still playing for say - Denver - then it'd usually go in around the NFL.

As someone who spent his first 30 years in and around Covington, west side of Cov probably isn't the best spot for Pacman. Not that it's ever been a great place, but Cov is really run down with heroin addicts over the last 10 years or so. It's an epidemic down there. I guess as long as he's not in there flipping pizzas and is very hands off, he should be fine..but for someone who is so prone to finding trouble, he should definitely avoid hanging around that area. 

(06-16-2019, 09:54 PM)BFritz21 Wrote: Mods, sorry if this is in the wrong spot, but he's a former Bengal, and this is pretty much in Cincinnati, so I figured it should go here.

Pacman and his wife, Tishana Holmes, are opening a pizza joint in Covington, Kentucky, which is the town you enter when you cross the bridge from the west side of Cincinnati (but it's actually in East Covington).  It's one of the lower-income areas of the city (not horrible, but not great), so hopefully it will be a nice place for people to go, provide employment to people, and just hopefully build the area.


There's about three more paragraphs about things like what they're offering- including wings, one of which is named the Pac Attack, another is after Chad (the Ocho spice), Ickey Woods (the Ickey Shuffle, naturally), Andrew Whitworth (the Whitworth), and the late Chris Henry (Slim Henry sauce).  

It doesn't look like there's any TVs up yet, but I think they could get big crowds in their on Sundays for Bengals games.  

His wife sounds like she knows what she's doing in training the chefs, so I'll have to go check it out sometime!

(06-16-2019, 10:45 PM)McC Wrote: Pizza is a tough one.  Just so  many of them, both national chain and locally owned.

They should be able to open well enough, based on name recognition alone.  If they're good, they have a change.  Most people have a favorite and that brings a loyalty that's hard to break.

(06-17-2019, 08:59 AM)Fullrock Wrote: Hmmmm...What could possibly go wrong with Pac Man owning/hanging out in a place that serves alcohol?

(06-17-2019, 10:37 AM)Earendil Wrote: Every pie should have a missing piece so it looks like Pacman.

(06-17-2019, 12:01 PM)Nately120 Wrote: Does Namco have good lawyers? 

(06-17-2019, 12:40 PM)Earendil Wrote: Not as good as Nintendo's, but I would imagine they have decent ones.

(06-17-2019, 08:59 AM)Fullrock Wrote: Hmmmm...What could possibly go wrong with Pac Man owning/hanging out in a place that serves alcohol?

(06-17-2019, 01:38 AM)grampahol Wrote: I would not be too shocked to learn the shop gets raided at some point by police...not that he's ever done anything to deserve any such scrutiny..