With LSU and their rabid fans headed to Omaha for the College World Series, one restaurant across the street from Charles Schwab Field is getting ready. Every year, Rocco’s Pizza and Cantina sells Jell-O shots in the colors of the eight participating teams for $5 apiece. Owner Kevin Culjat says when LSU went two years ago, they really cleaned up.
“They have the all-time record for most shots purchased, a little over 68,000 in their appearance here since we’ve owned the place and that’s still number one so far, so we’ll see what happens this year,” Culjat said.
Culjat says to get ready for LSU’s arrival, they’re stocking 120,000 Jell-O shots. He says the Jell-O shot tradition took off a couple years ago when social media got wind of it, so he decided to keep it going for a worthy cause.
“We give back $1 for every Jell-O sold to each team to their food bank, and then we also kick in 50 cents for every single Jell-O sold locally,” Culjat explained.
Culjat says with another good year this year, they will hit a milestone.
“If we sell 82,000 jealous shots this year, we’ll be over a half million dollars donated in the last five years. And that’s kind of a number where we’re kind of shooting for. I got a feeling with the teams in town, we’re going to hit that pretty easy,” Culjat said.
