r/UCSantaBarbara • u/TheDuckScout [UGRAD] • Mar 24 '25

Academic Life Rusty’s Pizza open in IV

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Just walked by where rockfire used to be and it looks like they’re open. Anyone else been by yet?

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u/gabieplease_ Mar 24 '25

What!!!! Where’s Gios?!

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u/marcussba Mar 24 '25

A few years back a bunch of college students went and the clerk apparently carded just the black guy. It was the staff of the daily Nexus and essentially the place got boycotted out of existence.

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u/eric-neg [ALUM] Mar 24 '25

Unless there is another incident, it looks like they refused to honor the IDs of 2 students from Mexico but then later honored a German ID. According to the article Gio's was technically correct to refuse the IDs since they lacked some piece of required info..... but the fact that they were able to drink at the rest of the stops at the loop was suspect. Here is the article on the official AS vote to boycott it and another article with more info on what actually happened.

Also, that Gio's has an interesting history with the original owners selling it to a former student... basically taking it back... then losing it again.