Kneading the Bond: Sophomore Kieran Robson works at his dad’s pizza restaurant

Sophomore Kieran Robson was playing on the pinball machine in the back of his dad’s restaurant — Buffalo State Pizza — in first grade. From the arcade, he could hear the mixed rock music, sports commentators on the TV and chatter of customers coming from the restaurant side.

He also knew his dad Steve was making pizzas, taking them from the oven and handing them to the server to slice and serve.

“I thought I was the coolest person in the school,” Kieran said. “[I would say] ‘Hey, my dad owns Buffalo State Pizza, I get free pizza.’”

Nine years later, now-sophomore Kieran is the one slicing and serving pizzas at the restaurant.

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While Steve is busy cooking, Kieran scans the room for order number four sticking up from the wooden table on a card.

When Steve hands him the freshly baked pizza, Kieran already knows where it goes. Left corner, red chair. As Kieran slices it into 12 pieces, Steve’s moving on to the next order as the 12 p.m. rush hour continues.

“[I enjoy mostly] just being able to work with [my dad], being in the business that he created, being there to help him, [while] also making money,” Kieran said.

Kieran serves pizza at Buffalo State Pizza on no-school days, three times a week in the summer and when a coworker calls in sick — as he described it, he’s the “substitute teacher.” 

Buffalo State Pizza manager Eric Sui works with Kieran and Steve, seeing them interact together at the restaurant.

“Sometimes Steve will tell Kieran to go do the dishes, and Kieran gives him that look, like, ‘I don't want to do these dishes,’” Sui said. “And then he'll try to walk off and disappear a little bit, or he starts messing with Steve a little bit, poking at him, making fun of him here and there, and [it] gives us all laughs going through it.”

And when Steve isn’t bringing home pizzas from the restaurant, he’s bringing back ingredients such as sausage and onions. Kieran uses them to bake his own pizzas at home because, due to his age as a 15-year-old, Kansas law prohibits him from working the oven at the restaurant until he’s 16 years old.

“There are two parts to cooking,” Steve said. “There's the cooking part, and there's the eating part. I mean, [Kieran] loves to eat. So, I think I've hopefully passed that love of cooking to him, because it's kind of cool if you know how to cook, so you can impress some people.”

Kieran and his family make pizzas at least once a month together in their Gozney outdoor oven, while Kieran cooks food such as dumplings with Steve at least once a week.

“It's just kind of an organic situation where it's, ‘Hey, I need you to chop this onion, or can you cut up this vegetable?’” Steve said. “So it's not really a planned-out process.” 

Steve always finds himself reminding Kieran of his responsibilities both in the restaurant and at home — whether that’s running customers’ empty trays to the dishwasher or taking out the trash.

“It's hard as kids get older, and they want their independence, and they want to leave,” Steve said. “It's just nice to still have the time to hang out with your son.”

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