Rod’s Pizza Sold for $650,000

Rod’s Pizza Cellar in Hot Springs (Steve Lewis)

Regular readers of Whispers may remember that Rod’s Pizza Cellar in Hot Springs, which had run into some trouble with the IRS back in July 2022, was sold earlier this year to Beasley Properties Inc., owners of McClard’s Bar-B-Q and JB Chophouse.

We finally got a purchase price on the pizza restaurant: $650,000. That sum covered a settlement that called for Rod’s Pizza to pay the IRS $600,558 for back taxes for 2014-17.

Business at Rod’s, which opened in 1975 and is a fixture on the Spa City dining scene, is good, the new owner tells us, and the restaurant, which is currently open five days a week, Wednesday through Sunday, may add a sixth day soon.