I have been to Cici’s before, the chain I mean, and while it was very cheap, the food quality was not the best.

never made it down to point pleasant much,but on the seaside boardwalk,as someone has said  Marucas was and is king…also good was a Macks that was there but has been gone for decades …..here in CA  least we now have Dominicks( jersey transplant) http://www.dominicksmarketdeli.com/folsom http://www.dominicksmarketdeli.com/folsom    up Folsolm way..you will always find a few east coast refugeesathere hudeled around a pizza with smiles on their faces  …. its little too far for me to go as much as I would like ,but at last a pizza in northern ca that could hold its own on the old Boardwalk ,and worth a special stop/trip  for anyone craving the real deal   

The thing I remember about CiCi’s was the sauce.  It had a real undertone to it.  Isn’t the Orangeade from Kohrs, not Jenkinsons?
The fire was pretty suspicious, along with all the other fires that occurred on the boardwalk over the years.

Happened to come across this today.  We used to stay in Pt. Pleasant for a couple of weeks each summer (60s/70s).  And yes, I remember Cici’s it was fantastic pizza.  It was good all around, but what I really remember is that they had a knack for getting the cheese around the edge burned just enough to create the most fantastic flavor!  God it was good.

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Prior to the fate of Ci Ci's, it was burglarized twice. The first was March of 1988 and the second January of 1990. What I've read up on about the place recently, it was owned by the Sontoriello family. Frank, owned it for 16 years before his passing in 1971. Then, Tommy owned it for the next 20 before it was gutted by fire. Tommy, passed away in 2011.
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The same place was originally an ice cream parlor before, it became CICI's Pizza.
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Go onto Newspapers.com and it has the full story.

Hi folks.  A little late to join this I know.  But the Cici in Cici’s Pizza (the local owned store in Point Pleasant NOT the chain) was my dad’s uncle.  This picture was recently posted on my family’s Facebook group (apparently the site is now a Dell Store).

I grew up on Long Island, so I never remember going there, but have heard the stories.  Apparently before they hit the big time, the Four Seasons played Martel’s on the boardwalk regularly.  They would come into the pizzeria to have dinner before going on.  

Hi folks.  A little late to join this I know.  But the Cici in Cici’s Pizza (the local owned store in Point Pleasant NOT the chain) was my dad’s uncle.  This picture was recently posted on my family’s Facebook group (apparently the site is now a Dell Store).

I grew up on Long Island, so I never remember going there, but have heard the stories.  Apparently before they hit the big time, the Four Seasons played Martel’s on the boardwalk regularly.  They would come into the pizzeria to have dinner before going on.  

Pizza and The Four Seasons. It doesn’t get any better!

never made it down to point pleasant much,but on the seaside boardwalk,as someone has said  Marucas was and is king…also good was a Macks that was there but has been gone for decades …..here in CA  least we now have Dominicks( jersey transplant) http://www.dominicksmarketdeli.com/folsom http://www.dominicksmarketdeli.com/folsom    up Folsolm way..you will always find a few east coast refugeesathere hudeled around a pizza with smiles on their faces  …. its little too far for me to go as much as I would like ,but at last a pizza in northern ca that could hold its own on the old Boardwalk ,and worth a special stop/trip  for anyone craving the real deal   

Years ago my folks cried about the pizza situation when they moved to Glendale, Arizona, ’til an Italian guy moved there from Bayonne, New Jersey and introduced superb pizza to the Valley Of The Sun. New Jersey, just doing our bit to fix the US pizza situation!

I still miss Sonny and Ricky’s pizza down in Seaside Heights on the boardwalk, and they closed over 20 years ago!

I grew up in Point Pleasant and worked a couple summers as an umbrella boy at Jenkinson’s Pavilion next door. As you can imagine I’ve had more than my share of Cici’s pizza over the years and agree it was one of the best ever made. I mean the real deal. Coupled with a real orangeade from Jenkinson’s it may have been the finest pizza experience ever! Of course we were blessed in Point Pleasant with not only Cici’s pizza but the aforementioned orangeade, Skokos’s hamburgers and hot dogs at the inlet end of the boardwalk and Mike’s submarines. How about Jack Baker’s Lobster Shanty?

Of course being much older now, everything old seems at least twice as good as today’s version of anything- but but darnit I believe it was.

Two other pizza’s worthy of mention from those halcyon days of yore. Pizza King in Toms River was nothing short of outstanding (gone) as was Maruca’s Seaside Boardwalk pizza. Fortunately for us Maruca’s is still in existence and just as good as ever.

Just wish I still lived close enough to have ready access to all the Jersey Shore eats that I miss so much.

Are you talking about the same CiCi’s that is a chain? Where it is like a buffet, cheap prices, poor quality pizzas, but a good place to take baseball teams, volleyball teams, etc. Kids love CiCi’s and parents like the prices. We went the other day (2 Adults, 1 child and the total for all 3 of us was under $10. The dessert pizzas are pretty good. The salad bar sucks.

That was a great place….

The place had become Joey Tomatoes, it had been rebuilt that same year. It still remains a hit to this day.