Cicero’s Pizza featured on ‘Check, Please! Bay Area’

For Cicero’s owner Rik Jones, having his pizzeria featured on “Check Please! Bay Area” in November represents the culmination of many years of dedication to keeping the restaurant begun by his grandfather Nunzio and his great uncle alive and thriving.

The pizzeria, originally founded in 1961 as Pee-Wee’s in Cupertino, was named for a guy in Niagara Falls, NY, where Jones grew up. Using his mother’s recipe from Sicily, Pee Wee established his first pizzeria in Niagara Falls, then moved to Cupertino...