Boston Pizza has been shuttered for nearly three years and after a two-year odyssey to completely rebuild the restaurant from the ground up, the business community celebrated the reopening with a ribbon cutting lasty week. Just in time for the FIFA World Cup.

There aren’t too many pubs and sports bars left in Smithers so the reopening of the Boston Pizza, one of Canada’s largest homegrown restaurant chains, was welcome news for the community.

Pam Haasen was at the ribbon cutting ceremony to chat with the folks that brought Boston Pizza back to life.