The Chesterfield restaurant claims they invented chicken riggies in 1989. But chef Michael Geno says it happened a full decade before that, in 1979, at the Clinton House (located in a Utica suburb). Chef Geno claims he created the dish (made with rigatoni) for a group of "doctors, lawyers, and union guys that frequent the restaurant on Monday nights to play cards." The card players began to refer to the meal as the "riggie dish" and began asking for it every week.