Pizzeria's 80-Year-Old Oven Gets New Lease on Life With Self-Lubricating Bearings
When pizza lovers walk into the carry-out room of Lino’s Pizza & Italian Restaurantin Rockford, Illinois, they can see their food in motion—cooking to perfection on a Ferris wheel-type oven with six rotating trays that stay level as they circulate around and around and around. Located about 90 miles west of Chicago, Lino’s is a family business that spans three generations and specializes in Rockford-style pizza (somewhere between a New York-style thin crust and a Detroit-style thick crust). Their pizza oven is more than 80 years old, and they want it to last another 40-plus years. Ther...