Purple Pig Pizza Grand opening

Here is the article from The Daily Herald:

LEHI -- The Purple Pig Pizza Parlor has returned to Lehi after a seven-year hiatus. When pizzeria owners Jerry and Annette Harris decided to go on a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1999, they left their business on 180 E. State Street, the Purple Pig Pizza Parlor, in the care of their children. The Harrises liked their first mission so well, they served two more, working in the San Jose California Mission, the Brisbane Australia Mission and the Phoenix Arizona Navajo Mission. The Purple Pig Pizza Parlor closed in 2003, and the building was leased out. "I'm excited because, after 27 years, it's a tradition that needed to be picked up again," said Annette Harris. "He [son Nate Harris] will keep the tradition. We have many, many customers who are waiting for them to open." Nate and his wife Brandi Harris reopened the new Purple Pig Pizza on Friday afternoon on 400 S. Millpond Drive (1000 East), Lehi. An icon for 25 years on Lehi's State Street, the Purple Pig Pizza is remembered by several of Lehi's residents, then children during the restaurant's heyday and now with children of their own. "No one could make it like they did," said Johnny Revill, of the Purple Pig's Luau Sow and All. "That was my favorite. My family went there once a week." Nate Harris has been employed at the Utah State Prison for seven years and decided to open a Purple Pig Pizza in his hometown. "I just want to come back and try it again," he said and grinned. He said he remembers as a child working at his family's business; he made a good income for his age."Minimum wage was $4, and I was making $8 and hour," he said. "My mother said she would pay me 20 cents a box to fold them, and I could fold 200 in an hour. She didn't know that." "A pizzeria with real staying power is the Purple Pig Pizza Parlor," reads Richard Van Wagoner's Lehi history book, "Lehi, Portraits of a Utah Town." In the '80s, customers could order a Plain Cheese Piggy, a Luau Sow and All or a Stuffed Piglet Combo."The best pizza ever," said DeAnn Phillips. "I'm super thrilled that they opened back up."

I had to throw this picture in too. I think both Nate and Brandi would agree that Annette was a great help to getting this thing going.

The night of the Grand opening (the night of my birthday) I took the kids over to see the ribbon cutting and to grab a pizza before we headed out. The shop was a little busier then they thought they would be so I worked about an hour and half so they could stay caught up. It was fun but I never did get to try the pizza! By time I was done helping my kids had devoured our! I am anxious to go get another one just for old times sake!