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Food Wine magazine
recently ranked

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New Jersey as the best pizza
state, but that's not right.

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Some from New York have
escaped over to Fort Lee

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to go to a place called
Linwood pizzeria.

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I'm Robin Lundberg
here with Ben Pikmin.

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And Ben Linwood
pizzeria is benefiting

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from sports betting being
legal in New Jersey,

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at least for now
and not in New York.

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Yeah, that's exactly
right, Robin.

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For years, we've seen that
people will go to great lengths

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to travel and sports.

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But think about all
the flights that

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head into Las Vegas and all
the betting that goes on there.

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But what we've seen
in recent years

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with New Jersey legalizing
online sports betting

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is that tons of people from,
say, the New York area just

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over the George
Washington Bridge

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will just travel over
the bridge or take

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the train into New
Jersey so that they

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can place online sports.

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So lynnwood pizza is a
pizzeria, as you mentioned,

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robin, just over the bridge in
Fort Lee in just a nondescript,

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rather strip mall.

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And what people do is they show
up on their weekend mornings

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and they order their slices,
their penhallow vodka,

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and they place their bets
and they go home and watch

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the game. so it's become this
kind of gambling hotspot,

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if you will, in Fort
Lee, just over the bridge

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as a function of its location.

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Yeah, I mean, like the phone
is your sports book, right?

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I remember being in
Vegas back in the day

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and I would get up for coffee
and go to the sports book

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and place my bets and then
leave and watch the games later.

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Essentially, it's
serving the same purpose.

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When I said not for long,
I didn't mean, obviously,

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that they're going to stop the
sports betting in New Jersey,

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but it's going to happen
in New York as well.

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So lynnwood pizza.

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Are they worried about
losing the customer base

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that they built up
because of New Jersey

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being a little ahead
in New York here?

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You know, it's a really
interesting question, right?

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As you mentioned, New
York state last spring

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legalized online sports
betting and they're

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hoping to implement and have
the force online sports bets

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taken this football
season and have

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the Super Bowl be this big day.

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Right and so, you
know, we've had

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for years these
people out of habit

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go to lynnwood pizza
to place their sports

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bean in the Starbucks
next door and other places

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just over the bridge,
as I mentioned.

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And so depending on how New
York state actually implements

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its product and how it's
used and how it's taxed

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and really what the system
looks like in New York state,

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it's possible still that a lot
of people go to lynnwood pizza.

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I talked to the pizza
is owner Jim serious.

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And one of the
things he mentioned

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is that a lot of people
go there out of habit.

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Right? they say
it's like a party

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and they like going there
and being with their buddies

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and hanging before the game.

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So maybe even if it's
legal in New York,

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even if people can
accessibly and like

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betting online in New York
state, betting online,

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that is, they still might
go over to this pizza parlor

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because they just like
being with their friends.

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And as you mentioned, part
of the fun of the sports book

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is kind of going there in person
and enjoying it and watching

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the games and being around
your friends and just hanging.

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And that's something
we might see this fall.

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Even with New York state
legalizing online sports

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betting and betting
starting to get going,

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they're better
bets, better pizza.

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Ben, appreciate the
time, as always.

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