The restaurant can now seat over 700 patrons. In 1978, they added a successful 175 seat Giggles Comedy Club. The higher side of the tower sank less due to more. When construction began all the way back in 1173, the tower’s foundation was laid on a shallow base of clay, fine sand, and shells, which is prone to instability. The restaurant expanded by adding a large dining room and three function rooms. The Leaning Tower of Pisa leans due to a combination of architectural miscalculations and the soft subsoil on which it was built. Arthur Castraberti, an employee Prince Macaroni in Lowell, MA turned down an opportunity to manage the restaurant and purchased the property. In 1961 the Prince Macaroni Company owned a small 12 seat pizzeria at this Saugus location. The smaller upper column has bifurcated metal red-white-green banner. The tower has the sign PIZZA in large vertical red letters on each side of the main column.

The tower is easily visible from both directions of busy US Route 1.Ī two stage column is painted with the famous circular colonnades of the Italian original. According to their website they are the largest independently owned pizzeria in America but what make this restaurant unusual is a variation the common pizza/Pisa pun - a 30' replica of the famous Leaning Tower of Pisa protrudes from the roof.

This pizza restaurant has two claims to fame.

Leaning tower of pisa made out of pizza