New Restaurant's Motif Displays A Boeing Touch

RENTON

Rock 'n' roll fans have the Hard Rock Cafe, and now aeronautics buffs and Boeing workers will have the Lazy Bee Pub and Eatery.

The Mottola family, longtime owners of Vince's Italian Restaurants in Seattle, will open the restaurant next week at 739 Rainier Ave. S., Renton.

It will feature an airplane motif, from the 747-shaped canopy on the front door to the live pilot/control tower transmissions piped into the bathrooms from nearby Boeing Field.

Model airplanes and oxygen masks will hang from the ceiling, posters of Boeing planes will line the walls, and the stainless-steel bar will be shaped like the exterior of a jetliner. Patrons will sit in airline seats.

Boeing apparently doesn't like the restaurant's name, however. The Mottolas picked the Lazy Bee name - a local euphemism for the Boeing plant in Renton - as a tribute to the company, says Paul Mottola.

But a Boeing official called his brother, Vince, to express reservations.

"They would have preferred we call it the Busy Bee," says Paul

Mottola.