Great Food, Friendly Atmosphere At New Rudino’s Pizza & Grinders Story by Chris Felker • Photos by Abner Pedraza
Rudino’s Pizza & Grinders, a cozy, family-friendly restaurant and sports bar, opened recently in the Marketplace at Wycliffe serving up great food with Carolina charm. Doug Guy of Fayetteville, N.C., moved to Wellington last year with his wife, Ruth, riding on the success of the two Rudino’s restaurants that he owns in North Carolina with business partner Doug Leggit. He was intending just to settle down and enjoy the area, with
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no plans to open a business here. “My wife and I have been wanting to move to Florida for years. The last thing I would want to do was open up another restaurant,” Guy said. After searching in several areas of Florida, they chose Wellington as their new home. “I moved to Black Diamond and met some really good people there,” he said. “And I have one of my buddies over there, Joe Rotell, the owner of Bonefish Grill. We got to talking.”
Rotell spoke highly of the local restaurant business. “So I started looking around a little bit and did my homework on the competition,” he said. “Then I said to Ruth, ‘You know what? If we do here what we do in North Carolina, we should absolutely do great here because our food is awesome, and we bring a kind of good old Southern hospitality.’” Guy ended up making the operation a true family affair, bringing in his son