1.   Ask a typical Missouri resident at a suburban pizza joint.

2.   At shopping malls, pizza joints and movie theater balconies, public displays of affection often draw sneers and scowls.

3.   Ahmad Nasif and his younger brother, Waleed, hope to open up a small business, maybe a pizza joint, possibly a convenience store.

4.   Although a random survey has determined that most pizza joints in San Francisco will be closed Thanksgiving, the folks at North Beach Pizza will be on the job.

5.   Chris Demis, longtime proprieter of the Mass House of Pizza, knows a thing or two about running a pizza joint.

6.   College students, the cooking-impaired and the just plain lazy have kept takeout pizza joints in business for decades.

7.   Flagstaff is a university town where the nightlife throbs to a blues and country beat, while crowds jostle their way from brew pub to pizza joint.

8.   He runs a delivery-only pizza joint.

9.   I told her about the pool, the playground and the local buffet pizza joint.

10.   Leave your best girlfriends and your local hardware store and your favorite pizza joint.