Coal oven pizzeria coming to Randhurst

The 7,000-pound oven was delivered on Tuesday, which makes it pretty official.

Tony Sacco's Coal Oven Pizza will open in Randhurst Village this June. The Mount Prospect village board unanimously approved giving the restaurant a liquor license on Tuesday.

Located near the AMC Theater, the eatery will open in a new 3,400-square-foot building. There will be 43 tables inside and 14 tables on a patio. The restaurant will be open from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Sundays through Thursdays and 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.

The popular restaurant chain is headquartered in Flordia. Mount Prospect's location will be the first one in Illinois, said Erin Morgan, a Palatine resident and soon-to-be restaurant owner.

According to Morgan, the coal ovens reach 1,000 degrees and will cook a pizza in four minutes flat.

“As a father of two, I don't have time to wait 45 minutes for a pizza,” said Morgan who brought his 4-year-old twin girls to the meeting.

Besides pizza, Tony Sacco's offers salads and sandwiches. Pizzas range in price from $5.25 for a kid's cheese pizza to $18.95 for an 16-inch specialty pizza. The restaurant also sells desserts, beer and wine.

Erin and his wife, Jill, first discovered Tony Sacco's when they wandered into one in Naples, Flordia.

“We're pretty picky about pizza, but we just loved this place and kept coming back,” said Jill Morgan.

The AMC Theater was also given a liquor license to serve beer, wine and hard liquor in a small bar area inside the theater. Liquor will not be sold at concession stands.

Mount Prospect's theater — slated to open later this month — will have 12 screens and seat about 1,800 people. There will also be areas with skybox-like seating made to feel like a living room, and it will feature state-of-the-art digital projection, 3-D screens and live broadcast capabilities.