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Greasy Tony's

According to my dad, who went to Rutgers in the late '70s / early '80s, there used to be a restaurant in New Brunswick called Greasy Tony's. It seemed coming from him that there was some kind of association between Tony's and the Grease Trucks. Anyone know if the connection is more than just name and style of food? Even if it isn't, should something about it be added to the article? (In response to the first item on this page, maybe this is where the name of the Trucks comes from...?) M. Stern 22:57, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

He may have had something to do with one vendor, but certainly not all of them as every truck is owned by a different person & they are all competing. BTW, just outside of Spotswood, NJ on Main Street there is a Stewart's Drive-In which sells Fat Cats & all the other Fat Sandwiches. Its owned by one of the owners of a Grease Truck @ Rutgers. --Hndsmepete 17:54, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

I was wondering about why some of the items were so familiar. they serve a mad root beer, btw. 165.230.46.151 (talk) 02:42, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Greasy Tony's (slogan: "No charge for extra grease") was indeed a Rutgers fixture in those days. It was on the corner of Easton Ave. and Somerset St., across the street from the Corner Tavern. But Tony's wasn't related to the trucks—at that time the trucks parked on College Ave. near Voorhees and Bishop Quad, and were also to be found on the Livingston and Cook campuses. Oddly enough, Greasy Tony's moved to Tucson years ago—I guess the NJ winters got to be too much to take! RossPatterson 01:29, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

Greasy Tony's was closed because of eminent domain. The obituary for the owner of Greasy Tony's (Giordanno) in Tuscon sounds like he was there all his life. Must have been a different Greasy Tony.Njsustain (talk) 15:29, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Actually, he was the same. He owned two, the first in NewB, the other in AZ: From a Star Ledger article written upon his death, (which says his name was "Tony Giorgianni"), dated June 17, '08:

• Tony Giorgianni, who achieved near legendary status for his eponymous Greasy Tony's restaurants in New Jersey and Arizona, died of a heart attack May 28 at the age of 78.
• Giorgianni's original Greasy Tony's restaurant was a cramped corner storefront at the intersection of Easton Avenue and Somerset Street in New Brunswick, although he soon relocated to a former fast food restaurant across the street. His restaurants were late-night fixtures for generations of Rutgers students from the 1960s through the early 1990s. He ultimately was forced to close for construction of a Rutgers dormitory and commercial building.

-- Njsustain (talk) 12:24, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

Well, according to (http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/history_culture/87285.php) there was one restaurant in Tempe, one in Tuscon, and FOUR in NJ at some point??? but confirms his name was Giorgianni. Njsustain (talk) 12:28, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

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