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5 Trending Pizza Styles for 2025

5 Trending Pizza Styles for 2025

(Editor’s note: This article is based on a Pizza Expo 2025 session by Scott Wiener, founder of Scott’s Pizza Tours in New York City.) Staying up-to-date with the latest trends is essential to for pizza operators to remain competitive. This year, a variety of pizza...

Whose Pizzeria Is This Anyway?

Whose Pizzeria Is This Anyway?

Minimize the Legal Risk to Your Pizza Business Resulting From Death, Disability or Divorce As a pizzeria owner, you are well aware of business risks. Dealing with commercial ovens brings the threat of fire. And if you deliver pizzas, the everyday risks of driving a...

Menu Diversification in the Pizza Industry

Menu Diversification in the Pizza Industry

Evaluate Your Best-selling Dishes and Their Costs when Considering New Menu Items (Editor’s note: This article is based on a Pizza Expo 2025 session led by Melissa Rickman, co-founder of Wholly Stromboli in Fort Lupton, Colorado.) Restaurant operators often assume...

Launching a Mobile Pizzeria: Choosing a Commissary (Part 7)

Launching a Mobile Pizzeria: Choosing a Commissary (Part 7)

(Editor’s note: This is the seventh installment in a series about opening a mobile pizzeria by Jason Cipriani, co-owner of Sips & Pies. You can read the other articles here.) Each week, I’ve been covering decisions involved in opening a mobile pizzeria as if they...

Launching a Mobile Pizzeria: Get Licensed (Part 6)

Launching a Mobile Pizzeria: Get Licensed (Part 6)

How to obtain licenses from the health department and fire department as well as a sales tax license (Editor’s note: This is the sixth installment in a series about opening a mobile pizzeria by Jason Cipriani, co-owner of Sips & Pies. You can read the other...

Rising Stars of Pizza: Who to Watch in 2025

Rising Stars of Pizza: Who to Watch in 2025

Meet the Rising Stars of the Pizza Industry in 2025 To select the 2025 Rising Stars of the Pizza Industry, the editorial staff of Pizza Today reached out to some of the country's most well-known and well-respected pizzaiolos to learn whose careers they are watching...

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