{"id":402548,"date":"2023-12-14T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=402548"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"RJ-Pizza-Restaurant-to-open-at-old-LBC-Garapan-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/RJ-Pizza-Restaurant-to-open-at-old-LBC-Garapan-site\/","title":{"rendered":"RJ Pizza Restaurant to open at old LBC Garapan site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RJ Pizza Restaurant will open\u00a0 up tomorrow at the old LBC Express Inc. location in Garapan.<\/p>\n<p>Owner Romeo Bautista said adding a new branch in Garapan to supplement their Sugar King Park one was made to accommodate more customers as the new location is more accessible and has more foot traffic.<\/p>\n<p>RJ Pizza\u2019s claim to fame is its home-made pizza with traditional toppings like ham and cheese, pepperoni, Hawaiian, chicken, special, and meat lovers. It also sells sweet Filipino-style spaghetti and crispy fried chicken.<\/p>\n<p>Its current menu is chockful of affordable combo meals that perfectly pairs its one-of-a-kind chicken, spaghetti, and pizza dishes.<\/p>\n<p>Customers can pair chicken with spaghetti, chicken with rice, chicken with pizza, or go the full nine yards with pizza, chicken, and spaghetti or pizza, chicken, and rice combos.<\/p>\n<p>It also offers its famous chicken in buckets of eight, 10, and 12 pieces and chicken singles with fries.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the usual soft drinks and bottled water, diners at RJ Pizza Restaurant can also quench their thirst with newly introduced fruit shakes.<\/p>\n<p>Asked why he made the move to a bigger location despite the economy not fully recovered following the COVID-19 pandemic, Bautista said he just wants to give people an affordable place to eat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re also affected by economic crisis, but we have a menu that I think would help the community with our low prices,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Named after his two sons, Roman and Jacob, Bautista started RJ Pizza as a home-based business in 2015. It moved to Sugar King Park in 2019 where it developed a cult following the past couple of years.<\/p>\n<p>Bautista has been on Saipan since 2007. Prior to coming to the CNMI, he worked as a cook at iconic fast-food restaurants in the Philippines such as Jollibee, Pizza Hut, Greenwich Pizza, and Dunkin Donuts.<\/p>\n<p>RJ Pizza Restaurant in Garapan is open from 10am to 10pm, Monday-Sunday, while RJ Pizza at Sugar King Park is open every day from 4pm top 9pm. For orders and for more information, call (670) 285-9600.<\/p>\n<p> <figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/b27a6ae00bdc6093dd7be0e59c38b7d6.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>RJ Pizza Restaurant\u2019s new location at the former LBC Express Inc. location is right across D\u2019Elegance Cafe in Garapan.<\/p>\n<p>-MARK RABAGO<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/5c86aa2bd7e1648a604139a036362912.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>RJ Pizza Restaurant\u2019s bestselling pepperoni pizza.<\/p>\n<p>-CONTRIBUTED PHOTO<br \/>\n<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/1df11e9dc49a00df0834728781ef4a3e.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>RJ Pizza Restaurant\u2019s Hawaiian pizza, fried chicken, and spaghetti combo meal.<\/p>\n<p>-CONTRIBUTED PHOTO<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RJ Pizza Restaurant will open\u00a0 up tomorrow at the old LBC Express Inc. location in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}