When Donny Phillippi and Jason Bell took over JJ Madison’s All American Grill in Mesa two years ago, they changed the menu. That didn’t go over well with customers.
“When we tried to change the menu, the people from the Midwest weren’t having it,” said Phillippi. “We have a ton of Canadians and people from North Dakota, Wisconsin and Minnesota.”
Customers were accustomed to the home-cooked, made-from-scratch items the original owners offered when they started the restaurant over 20 years ago at 420 N. Power Road..
Phillippi and Bell saw the light and returned those favorites…