Category: Entrepreneurs

Allen Kieny Director of sales Roto Flex Oven Company

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Roto Flex Oven

It is truly revolutionary what the Roto Flex Oven has done for the Pizza business. Just consider: you can cook 24 18 inch pizzas at one time in the Roto Flex Oven; the interior is lit and with the glass doors you can watch your pizzas without opening the doors!! The Roto Flex Ovens allow the heat to stay inside. Simply put, there is nothing like the Roto Flex Oven in today’s marketplace. With that in mind we spoke with the Director of Sales for the Roto Flex Oven Company-Mr.…

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Patty Phillips Founder / President of Patty’s Pizza

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She opened her first take and bake pizza restaurant in Beverly Hills in 1988. Her dedication to pizza was such that she was nominated for the U.S. Small Business Administration Person Of The Year. These days she’s no longer in the store or restaurant end of the pizza business. She’s now a wholesale manufacturer. The person we are talking about is Patty Phillips, the Founder and President of Patty’s Pizza. Patty spoke with us about her background and how she got involved into the pizza business. Q – Patty, if…

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Keith Seiz Lloyd Pans

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They make pans for pizzerias all over the world including all of the top 10 pizza chains. Based out of Spokane, Washington, Keith Seiz, spokesman for Lloyd Pans talked with us about a very unique company in the Pizza Business. Q – Keith, for starters what is your position with Lloyd Pans? A – My position at Lloyd Pans is I’ve been working with them for 11 years basically bringing their pans to pizzerias and restaurants around the world. So, we’re a marketing agency, but a little more than a…

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Jeffrey Strah Miyoko’s

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In the Pizza World a company by the name of Miyoko’s is on the verge of changing the way pizza is made. Their product is called Liquid Vegan Pizza Mozzarella. We spoke with Miyoko’s representative Jeffrey Strah about their revolutionary product. Q – Jeff, I see under your name, the National Director of Culinary and Industrial Sales. Is that the same thing as saying you’re the Director of Marketing? A – No. We have a Vice President of Marketing. She’s the head of it. There’s not too many people in…

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Judy Savage Nomato Pasta Sauce

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Imagine a pasta sauce that uses no tomatoes. Sounds impossible you say? Well you need look no further than Nomato. Nomato may be used as substitute in any recipe calling for tomato sauce, barbeque sauce, ketchup or salsa. Nomato is made from a combination of root vegetables and seasonings. It contains no soy, dairy, wheat, gluten, nuts and of course no tomatoes. We talked with Judy Savage of Nomato about her product. Q – Judy what is your position in the company? A – I am the owner of the…

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Scott Wiener Interview Scott’s Pizza Tours

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Scott Wiener took his love of pizza and turned it into a business. He takes people around New York City and shows them the best that New York has to offer in the way of pizza’s. When he’s not conducting pizza tours Scott Wiener writes an award-winning column for Pizza Today Magazine contributes to P M Q’s Pizza Magazine and PizzaMarketplace.com and judges pizza culinary competitions around the globe. He’s been featured on CBS Sunday Morning. The Dr. Oz Show, the Travel Channel, Cooking Channel, Food Network, Discovery Channel, the…

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Jesse Stubbs Interview Marketing Director at Pappardelle’s

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Their pasta products including pasta sauce can now be found in over 250 Farmers markets, Street Fairs and Specialty Gourmet Food Stores. In 2011, Whole Foods Rocky Mountain Region invited them to be their primary fresh pasta purveyor and allowed them to introduce their gluten-free pasta in over 30 stores. The following year, 2012, King Soopers (Kroger) Rocky Mountains Region invited their gluten-free pasta into over 50 stores. The company we are talking about is Poppardelle’s and the person we’re talking to about the company is Jesse Stubbs. Q –…

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Val Gray Interview Italian Hearts Pasta Sauce

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Val Gray and her husband Sal share a love of cooking and fine cuisine and it shows! They are the proud makers of 3 gourmet pasta sauces, Bella Amore Sauce, Three Meat Sauce and Val’s Vegetarian. What makes these sauces so unique is they are all handcrafted. And with that will let Val Gray fill-in the rest of the details. Q – Did I read that you have your own production plant? That means you’re far ahead of most gourmet pasta makers. A – Well, it was the only way…

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Lisa Galassi Interview Galassi foods

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Galassi foods was started back in 2009 and there’s been no looking back! Their bottled pasta sauces have won rave reviews from everyone who’s tried them. What’s behind their success? We’ll let Lisa Galassi explained. Q – Lisa, before you were bottling your pasta sauces, you had something called “soul food Sunday”. What was that all about? A – That was a Sunday that my brother and I would plan for all week long, a menu. We pick a theme and we would say Italian. We would make the sauce…

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Chrissy Rogers Interview Spinelli’s Sauce Company

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  Denver, Colorado can now boast about some of the finest gourmet pasta sauce in the marketplace. Since 1994, Spinelli’s Market has been pleasing customers with their gourmet foods and Italian specialties. There sauces were so popular they decided to start bottling them. And that’s where Chrissy Rogers of Spinelli Sauce Company enters the picture. Q – Before there was Spinelli’s Sauce Company there was what? Spinelli’s Restaurant? A – There’s a Spinelli’s Market. Actually there still is a Spinelli’s Market. It was started in a little neighborhood in Denver…

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