On Tuesday the 11th of April 2017, Dine Palace restaurant marketing in Toronto was at Amicos Pizza at 1648 Queen Street West taking pictures of our delicious fresh cooked food. The food was fresh because Frankie our boss was in the kitchen all afternoon cooking up the best plates on the menu for the camera. You can read a lovingly detailed behind-the-scenes account of the friends who gathered to have lunch that day on Sharing Toronto,
It was a happy occasion because Frank Horgan here at Amico’s Pizza does indeed have a great many friends in Parkdale, and many familiar faces dropped by that day to get in the pictures and help out with the marketing (and eat free pizza and pastas).
Nobody Minds Helping Marketers When They Get Free Pizza!
Here is our amico Bill Kinch who dropped by for some pizza – in fairness he wasn’t really dressed for pictures as he had no idea what we up to, and we’ll never tell him we used this picture here either..

Inside the downstairs dining room area a photography studio evolved around a steaming plate of the lamb chops. That’s the CEO of Hashtagio John Macintosh holding the light bounce for Roger Metiever of Table of the Week.

And that plate was followed by the Cannelloni in tomato sauce smothered in mozzarella cheese – this is one of Amico’s Pizza’s most understated meals. This dish is delicious.
Markus said ‘Okay now we need to see some people enjoying these beautiful meals.” And that was Jay Nadler’s cue (Hutch Henries at Hogtown Wrestling) to sit down and eat a gorgeous 12 ounce rib-eye steak.


Food torture – Jay was hungry but couldn’t eat until all the pictures were done. This is acting and required great discipline – for ten agonizing minutes the hungry wrestling manager could only look at the meal and pretend to be about to enjoy it…

Okay Jay now get the cutlery in your hands and pretend you are here to eat. . . wait for it… okay wait for it…

Mmmm that 12 ounce rib-eye steak sure looks juicy … just hang on Jay…

For ten minutes or more Jay had to pretend to be about to cut into the steaming steak… not yet Jay. Just hang on…

Just one more picture… swapping a lens… hang on Jay…
The juicy steak drove Jay mad with hunger. . .

And finally he snapped.

This is just one turn of events that occurred while photographing the entries… Now can you imagine how much fun we had shooting the desserts?
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