The fictional "Beacon Street Pizza" is based on a real pizza restaurant named Broadway Eatery in Teele Square, Somerville, Massachusetts. It was where show creator Kenny Schwartz worked delivering pizzas while attending nearby Tufts University.
In this show, Julius Carry plays Bill the pizzeria owner, but in the film " The Last Dragon (1985)," he played Sho'nuff, The Shogun of Harlem, who destroyed Daddy Green's pizzeria with his goons.