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The first Old Spaghetti Factory restaurant was furnished by Dussin's wife, Sally, from garage sales and whatever she could find that was inexpensive.
The company is also known for sound financial management and solid cost controls in all of its operations, especially food. The company trains its employees to be very efficient in the kitchen, wasting as little food as possible.
The less waste, the less overhead, the lower the price of a meal for its customers. The Old Spaghetti Factory management team has remained steady as well.
Most of the core management team has been with the company since its inception, adding to the company's continuity and consistency. The company does actively recruit on college campuses for new managers and puts recruits through an intensive week training program. Each restaurant employs between 90 and employees and three to six managers. Dussin has acted as an advisor to some of his in-laws in opening Old Spaghetti Factories in Canada, but there is no business connection between Dussin's Old Spaghetti Factory International Inc.
However, knowing that a company's consistency must be mixed with dynamics to stay afloat, the company allowed franchises to be opened up. Alice Pulos and her ex-husband Mike opened a second restaurant near Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, and a third in Scottsdale, Arizona, but after their divorce in the late s, they split the difference: she kept the Phoenix unit and remained part of the OSF International company, the Tempe unit was given to her ex-husband and the name was changed to The Spaghetti Company, and the Scottsdale restaurant was closed.
Chitaka Foods International was granted a franchise in to open and operate an Old Spaghetti Factory restaurant in Nagoya, Japan, the first of ten total to be opened in that country. OSF International was studying other countries for possible expansion. The U. In , Dussin turned over day-to-day operations to his son Chris Dussin and son-in-law David Cook, both of whom have been active in management for many years. True to OSF's beginnings, new menu items were carefully being added and food preparation was always being studied for ways to improve the speed of service without compromising quality.
New locations continued to be developed in suburban markets, with a distinctive building design that reflected the company's penchant for downtown warehouse restaurants. Toggle navigation. The initial menu was inspired by dishes from the Dussin family's home kitchen, particularly a meaty spaghetti sauce.
Guss Dussin, overseeing things in the kitchen in When the restaurant opened, the national economy was struggling. Tight times meant diners were hungry for bargains. The spaghetti came with a variety of sauces, including a Neopolitan meat sauce that's still on the menu, along with others that have faded as diners' tastes have changed chicken liver sauce. For an additional dollar, you could get a veal cutlet or a slice of beef tenderloin. One of the standout features of the original restaurant was a restored trolley car that diners could eat in.
The trolley tables were such a hit that streetcars became a design focal point of future locations. But it proved money well spent.
Tables in the restored trolley were always the first to get filled by hungry diners. The Oregonian file photo. If you couldn't score a table in the streetcar, you could sit in booths made out of recycled iron bed frames, an idea of Sally Dussin, Guss' wife and mother of Chris Dussin, who is chairman of the company today. Sally Dussin, now 90, continues to play a role in shaping the restaurant's atmosphere, keeping an eye out for Tiffany-style lamps, cut-glass chandeliers, and wood paneling, which gave the dining rooms a warm feeling.
The move to a no-man's land. Guss Dussin oversees construction of the new Old Spaghetti Factory in The flagship restaurant opened the following year. In , the Dussins moved the restaurant out of downtown to the South Waterfront, which was anything like the current neighborhood of high-rise condos, ballet studios and Portland's aerial tram.
In the s, the area was still home to gritty former shipyards, where barges were built and ships dismantled.
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