When I was in college, students would never even think about getting pizza, especially at night, because we all used to be in bed no later than 7:30 PM. Don’t you realize that Georgetown is for cranky old people? The only businesses we need in Georgetown are extremely expensive furniture stores, overpriced groceries, and nineteen different Italian “men’s clothing” outlets (you know.. the ones where the suit in the window never changes) that are definitely not fronts for mob activity.

Tuscany’s stock now rated as a “buy”…

The simple fact is that they are operating under zoning restrictions that compel them to get most of their business from sit down patrons (it’s something like 75%). They’re clearly not complying with that. If they want to continue to be a take-out joint, they’ll have to apply for a zoning waiver. Any time you want a waiver from zoning, the BZA is perfectly within its rights and responsibilities to consider the effect the waiver would have on the neighbors. In this situation, they are already demonstrating the negative effect that granting a waiver would have. They’re clearly going to lose. 1,000 students demanding their right to get pizza on the way home from the bars is not going to change that, except to make the decision even easier.

They could invite the Mayor, the ABC investigators, the ANC, and some GU administrators who could see what the impact is on the folks who actually live near there. Maybe they could set up some porta-potties too.

Doesn’t sound any worse than the current plan.

In order to prove why it should stay open, the restaurant proceeds to rally support from…all of the students who pledge to show up drunk in the middle of the night?