Rico’s Ristorante’
Last modified on 2010-01-01 18:55:38 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
The annual Rico’s Ristorante’ is scheduled for Tuesday, January 5, 2010, beginning at 6pm. This popular event held at the Miami University Bell Tower Place offers a unique opportunity for interaction with your Miami RedHawks’ Ice Hockey Team. The cost is $10 for adults and $5 for children 12 and under.
Your evening will start off with a greeting by maitre d’ Tommy Wingels as he welcomes you to this wonderful interactive event. Dinner includes stir fry, pizza, cheese sticks, wings, salad, smoothies and dessert. The players actually serve up the food and at the very popular “wok link” you choose between beef, chicken or shrimp and add all the fixins and veggies you want. Your meal is then personally prepared by one of the team. Served with an egg roll and rice the players show off their culinary skills and entertain the crowd.
A constant “oommmpaahh” can be heard from the pizza station as the guys dish up fresh pizza and bread sticks. Salad and smoothies are offered non-stop. To round out your dinner, dessert includes cherries jubilee (flames and all… the team is really hot this year!) and cookies. A great all-you-can-eat meal for $10.
Good natured ribbing can be heard as the freshmen players who are relegated to “back office” functions, such as cleaning pots, pans and dishes come out of the kitchen. The other players start hollering and shouting to draw attention to them.
Previous year’s attendees have stated this was the best event they had ever attended. It’s great to see the players up close and chat with them as you wait in line. You don’t want to miss this event!
The next Rico’s Ristorante will be held on Tuesday January 5, 2010 @ Bell Tower Dining Hall. Hope you all can make it.
This is a great event that everyone looks forward to. Here is a story about the event that was held in January of 2008.
Rico’s Restaurante Draws Record Crowd
Last modified on 2008-04-02 17:16:49 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
The annual Rico’s Restaurante was held on Wednesday, January 9, 2008. Attendance at this popular event was double the previous record. Last year 125 people attended the evening and enjoyed dinner while being served by the players in the cafeteria style line. This year over 230 people attended. The cost is very reasonable as adults paid $5.00 and children $3.00. Attendees were greeted at the entrance by maitre d’ Kevin Roeder, who appeared to be running for President of the United States as he worked the crowd like a master. Coach Rico Blasi also passed through the crowd to personally greet almost every attendee.
Dinner included pizza, wings, salad, and the very popular “wok line”. The players served up the food. At the wok line, the players actually cooked your selected meal in a wok. You could choose between beef, chicken or shrimp and add all the fixins and veggies you wanted, served with an egg roll and rice. Alec Martinez, Jeff Zatkoff, Mitch Ganzak and Brandon Smith were excellent chefs! Dessert included cherries jubilee (cooked and dished up by the self proclaimed best looking group of players, which included Charlie Effinger and Ray Eichenlaub), cookies (although it appeared Ryan Jones may have eaten many of them) and smoothies. A fine meal for just $5.00.
As usual, the freshmen players were relegated to “back office” functions, such as cleaning pots, pans and dishes. Whenever a freshman came out of the kitchen the other players started hollering and shouting to draw attention to them.
All attendees seemed to enjoy themselves, including the approximately 35 children. It was great to see the players up close and chat with them as you were in line. All in all, it was a great evening for all.
If you missed this, make sure to get to the next one in January 2009.
