Uno’s Chicago Grill In 1943, when Ike Sewell opened a restaurant at the corner of Ohio Street and Wabash Avenue in Chicago, Americans ate pizza primarily as a snack. Ike figured that if you combined some of Italy's old, authentic recipes with impressive quantities of the finest meats, fresh cheeses, ripe vegetables and flavorful spices, pizza would become a hearty meal. It was the start of an American tradition - the Chicago Deep Dish Pizza. Ike's Original Deep Dish Pizza has been imitated many times, but never quite duplicated. ***Lady Liberty: Uno Chicago Grill uses annually enough mozzarella cheese to create 4,625 Statues of Liberty…if she were made out of cheese! ***Where does your pasta take you?: Uno Chicago Grill serves 785,115 pounds of pasta a year. This is enough pasta to wrap around the world 1.8 times or make 5 round-trips from Boston to Italy! ***Thirsty?: Uno serves more than 14 million 20 oz. sodas each year. This is enough soda to fill 3 Olympic-sized swimming pools!. **Source: Uno's Pizzeria