They have welcomed the Heartbreakers (without Tom Petty), Weezer, Flea, Gypsy Trash and Marky Ramone to their stages.

The Weaklings from San Francisco visited, and the lead singer grabbed a bottle, broke it on stage and cut a big Z in his chest.

And let’s not forget the comedian who would staple dollar bills to his body and face and then hang bowling balls off his ears and shake his head.

But what will Maralyn DiPiazza miss most after she and husband Mark DiPiazza retire on Feb. 29? Without missing a beat, she said, “I’m going to say feeding people.”

The DiPiazzas are getting out of the restaurant and entertainment business at the end of the month, turning their namesake establishment, DiPiazza at 5205 E. Pacific Coast Highway, over to Steve Guillen, the former owner of Iguana Kelley’s.

As bands line up to perform during the final weeks (Abbey Road on Feb. 13 and Cities to Oceans on Feb. 27), the owners of one of Southern California’s top venues for young bands say they are ready to drop the mic one last time.

“I’m going to do a lot of things,” Mark DiPiazza said. “I’m just not going to have the stress of having to run a business.”

“I have my garden going,” Maralyn DiPiazza said. “All my winter vegetables are starting to come in.”

Despite owning the oldest music venue in Long Beach, known as a go-to location for punk rock, the couple has kept a quieter voice about the venue’s reputation than others might.

“We don’t toot our own horn,” Maralyn DiPiazza said, “and sometimes it would hurt my feelings that other places would get so much publicity and we didn’t. But it’s just amazing what we do.”

Both were born and raised in Long Beach. Both are Wilson High School graduates; Mark DiPiazza in 1973 and Maralyn DiPiazza two years later. Maralyn DiPiazza’s dad was a Wilson grad, too.

Neither graduated from college; Maralyn DiPiazza took a UCLA extension class to work on her culinary skills, and the course’s guest teacher was Wolfgang Puck, pre-Spago. Meanwhile, Mark DiPiazza started working in restaurants at 14. He was the head chef of the Hind Quarter Restaurant in Naples, currently Naples Rib Joint, from 1971 to 1981. Maralyn DiPiazza did a stint as a waitress at Domenico’s.

The DiPiazzas opened their first restaurant in Belmont Shore in 1984 at the corner of Ocean Boulevard and Termino Avenue, where the Round Table pizza restaurant now sits. In that restaurant, they played albums they owned, plus a few from their parents. People loved the eclectic mix of songs.

“You would put a record on the turntable and go back and make the (pizza) pies,” Maralyn DiPiazza said.

The restaurant was a success and so they decided to expand, opening a lunch place on Anaheim Street. The lunch location stayed open for a year-and-a-half. After 10 years in the Shore, the DiPiazzas sold that location.

“People that we had done catering for approached us about taking over the restaurant side of Java Lanes, the only bowling alley in the city,” Mark DiPiazza said. “At first we said no. But then we saw this huge kitchen and the guarantee of 100% of the food service — it was tremendous.”

The DiPiazzas started Rock and Bowling at the alley. Mark DiPiazza admitted he didn’t know much about booking music, but he learned quickly.

A friend of Mark DiPiazza’s told him Weezer was coming out of retirement and they wanted to do three secret shows. Java Lanes would host the second show.

“We couldn’t even say the name,” Mark DiPiazza said, “until two days before the show.”

More than 5,000 people lined up, wrapping around the building.

“That concert put us on the map,” he said. “We were crazy busy. We were the premier place in Long Beach.”

Ever the entrepreneurs, in 2000, the DiPiazzas had the opportunity to buy a business on Pacific Coast Highway. It was Captain’s Quarters, a steakhouse that had seen better days.

Mark DiPiazza started booking bands at Java Lanes and the new DiPiazza’s location — 300 bands a month.

But, in 2002, the bowling alley closed. So the pair took their cooking and booking skills to the PCH location, where Maralyn DiPiazza baked and created sauces and dressings for their classic pizzas and pasta.

The DiPiazzas have enjoyed all the messages they have received with retirement three weeks away.

“It’s kind of funny, too, because over the years, Mark and I haven’t felt really popular,” Maralyn DiPiazza said. “We aren’t like the popular place and we aren’t the popular people.”

Although that’s how the couple may feel, the venue space tells a different story.

The restaurant is stuffed with album covers and concert posters, some that are signed. Most of them are now for sale, with asking prices from $35 and $300.

The DiPiazzas knew they couldn’t do this forever. So they are ready for some traveling and cooking for themselves. And, finally, a day off.

“I want to wake up and have nothing to do except what I want to do and not the 100 things I have to do today,” Mark DiPiazza said with a laugh.

“We’ve been married 38 years,” Maralyn DiPiazza said. “We are so lucky because we are best friends and we love each other. We loved seeing the new talent that came to our family place. We were the punk rock kings of Long Beach.

“We brought it here,” she said, “and it was a great ride.”