AURORA, Ill. (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- An auction is planned next week for all sorts of items from a longtime Aurora pizza place that closed for good last month.
Bill Poss, the owner of Luigi's Pizza and Fun Center, said on Facebook in late May that one of the big reasons for closing was because it was so hard to get enough people to work.
"There isn't anyone that wants to work to take over these businesses," he said. "That's the ethics of this world. We have lazy people."
Poss said he was under-staffed by about 15 people even after surviving in business through the pandemic.
He acknowledged there was another reason for going into retirement.
"I had a stroke last year. I don't' need this anxiety, this turmoil in my life. It's been a great run," Poss said.
I've been in business for 41 years. I'm the longest pizza owner in Aurora ever."
Poss said Luigi's had been opened 28 years before that--in 1953.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, there'll be an online auction through Grafe Auctions of everything that had been in Luigi's. Items include everything from beer mirrors and chairs to pizza pans and a 60 quart dough mixer to 58" TV's and bar glasses.
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