Today Is Take Your Child To Work Day
Today is Take Your Child to Work Day. This is always my favorite day of the year. It also marks the 26th time my dad and I will celebrate this unique holiday together. Yes, we get funny looks from everyone. They think because I’m 38 years old I’m stepping on all the other kids’ toes. […]
Could Rascal’s Jumbo Pretzel Sticks With Cheese Dip Mean An End To Growling Stomachs?
When we decided to roll out our Jumbo Pretzel Sticks, we had no idea we were on the cusp of a scientific breakthrough. But that’s exactly what happened a few nights ago for a group of students in Fenn Tower on the campus of Cleveland State University. As you may know, students have a tendency […]
It’s Catering Season!
In a couple weeks you’re gonna open up your windows and hear the sounds of wedding bells and Pomp and Circumstance ringing throughout your neighborhood. Lovebirds getting married. People graduating. It’s catering season, the most wonderful time of the year! In April of 1980 our founder Mike Frangos was pulling a pizza out of the […]
Founders Day
When Mike Frangos founded Rascal House in 1980, he started a Cleveland icon and grew his business into a great big happy family. A family of passionate, hard-working people who believe in what they do, and do it with smiles on their faces. He was born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, but lived most of his life […]
Let’s Talk March Madness
I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again. Rascal House and March Madness go together like Ham & Cheese. The NCAA Tournament is here. Some of you will have your brackets busted before you finish reading this story. But there’s more to the Big Dance than winning an office pool. For instance, looking like you […]
Ask Rascal House: St. Patrick’s Day Edition!
Dear Rascal House, St. Patrick’s Day is just around the corner. Is there really a plate of Rascal House wings at the end of every rainbow? Signed, Fingers Crossed in Fairview Dear Fingers Crossed in Fairview, Absolutely. But you will also find a dramatic assortment of other Irish favorites: Like pizza, subs and garden-fresh salads […]
Finding True Love At Rascal House: A Valentine’s Day Story
It was 1982. I was enrolled at the Maritime Captain Training School in Cleveland, Ohio. We had just started 13 weeks of rigorous training. We ran obstacles. We climbed ropes. Everyone had to make it over a wall. We heard stories about Rascal House, how it lured maritime operators with pizza that was out of […]
It’s National Pizza Day!!*
There are over 1,500 national (fill-in-the-blank) days celebrated in the U.S. every year. Unfortunately, they often come and go without a moment’s notice. Not National Pizza Day!! It’s celebrated by us the same way we celebrate every other day of the year. With great fanfare and unbridled enthusiasm!! *Okay maybe we take it up a […]
Pizza Delivery Puts The ‘Super’ in Super Bowl
We like everything about the Super Bowl. The game. Delivering pizza. Unbiased surveys. Surveys? Oh, yeah. When asked what they like most about the Super Bowl, 9 out of 10 people said pizza delivery. The 10th person had been living under a rock for 39 years and had never heard of pizza delivery. “Seriously?” we […]
It’s January 15th. Let’s Edit Poems!
All across the land students are returning to college for Spring Semester. It’s time to crack open some books and deepen your understanding of the world. But it’s cold outside. Certainly not the best elements for higher learning. We thought it would be nice to help you sink your teeth into some poetry. Poetry that […]