April 2026

Published: April 1, 2026Denise Greer

Read the April 2026 Issue of Pizza Today Magazine

The April issue of Pizza Today celebrates Pizzerias’ Women of Influence, featuring inspiring stories and expert insights from industry-leading women. Highlights include tips on personalizing social media for meaningful connections, bridging communication gaps between front and back of house, and creating career paths through technical education partnerships. Discover how to elevate your menu with house-made sauces, add variety with whole-grain pizza dough, and join us in honoring the trailblazing women shaping the future of the pizza industry.

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Topics People & Pizzerias

Pizza Trendsetter: Marisol Doyle Leña Pizza + Bagels – Cleveland, Mississippi | Women of Influence

Award-winning pizza chef Marisol Doyle brings artistry and creativity to the pizza menu Marisol Doyle has become a global pizza sensation from her little hamlet of Cleveland, Mississippi. Tapped as one of world’s best pizza chefs by 50 Top Pizza in...

Topics People & Pizzerias

Heart of the Community: Tiffany Fixter Brewability – Englewood, Colorado | Women of Influence

Tiffany Fixter builds a business that offers purpose and skills to people with disabilities Tiffany Fixter had a career in special education prior to starting Brewability, a Colorado-based pizzeria and brewery that employs individuals with special ne...

Topics Pizzas

Spring Blossoms Pizza | Leah’s Recipe

Get a spring pizza recipe by Leah Scurto, owner and pizzaiola at PizzaLeah in Windsor, California Edible flowers. Are they bougie and pretentious or beautiful and tasty? It can be a fine line, but I think edible flowers are absolutely delicious – e...

Topics Event News Industry News

Pizza Expo Columbus 2026 | Expo Spotlight

Back to Columbus, Bigger & Better! Oct. 11-12, 2026 – Greater Columbus Convention Center Pizza Expo Columbus 2025, the largest pizza-specific trade show east of the Mississippi river, was a huge success, and we’re expecting to deliver another...

Topics People & Pizzerias

Technology Tastemaker: Jane Grote-Abell Donatos – Columbus, Ohio (headquarters) | Women of Influence

Donatos Pizza’s Tech-forward Mission with Jane Grote-Abell Watching her father create a pepperoni slicer to meet his specifications, a young Jane Grote-Abell was instilled with the belief that technology should serve people and elevate quality....

Topics People & Pizzerias

Industry Trailblazer: Victoria Tiso Tori T’s Pizzeria – Malverne, New York // 914 Pizza – Harrison, New York | Women of Influence

Victoria Tiso, a multi-generational pizzeria owner sets a new path As the owner of two pizzerias on Long Island, Victoria Tiso refuses to stay comfortable. Born into the family behind Louie & Ernie’s Pizza in the Bronx, Tiso could have stuck to...

Topics People & Pizzerias

Operational Oracle: Hengam Stanfield, Mattenga’s Pizzeria – San Antonio, Texas | Women of Influence

A Master Class in Running a Pizza Operations | Hengam Stanfield Hengam and Matthew Stanfield opened Mattenga’s Pizzeria more than a decade ago, growing the pizza powerhouse to seven locations around San Antonio, Texas. Mattenga’s pizza has been v...

Topics People & Pizzerias

Pizza Master: Giorgia Caporuscio Don Antonio – New York, New York | Women of Influence

Trailblazing Pizza Maker Giorgia Caporuscio When Giorgia Caporuscio came to New York City from Italy at age 19, she could not have imagined the trajectory her career would take – starting with industry-leading accolades. Caporuscio was the youngest...

Topics People & Pizzerias

Pizzeria Women of Influence

Honoring women leading the pizza industry into the future Women have been woven into fabric of pizza making since its creation. Napoletana women fried dough to be served as street food. In early America, women were often the backbone of family-owned ...

Topics Industry News

Women of Influence | Commentary

When I took the reins as editor-in-chief, Jeremy White shared details of a project he was hoping to put in motion this year, spearheaded by the pizza queen, Laura Meyer, and our newest columnist, Melinda Carbajal. The idea: dedicate an issue to indus...

Topics Dough

Yeast Choices for Pizza Dough: Rise to the Occasion | Knead to Know

Choice of yeast correlates directly to finished pizza Beans, beans, the musical fruit! The more you eat the more you toot! Yeast might give beans a run for their money in the gas-production department, and rightfully so! For something so tiny, yeast ...

Topics Brand & Marketing Operations

Remaining Authentic in the Age of AI | Slice of Advice

Artificial Intelligence (AI) was designed as a tool, not to replace human connection. With technology developing quickly, it is easy to get caught up in the excitement of having resources at our fingertips. So, how do we decide when and where to util...

Topics People & Pizzerias

Destinations: Mercurio’s, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh-based Mercurio’s draws customers in search of a beautiful, artisan experience. Yet some of what sets the restaurant apart from other pizzerias – homemade gelato and mozzarella, for example – began as a way to save on food costs and l...

Topics Finance & Growth Menu Development

The Product Mix Heatmap | Rickman’s Rule

Avoid emotional attachment and confirmation bias to improve profitability Let me start with a confession: I’m having a love affair with my numbers. Not spreadsheets, taxes or balance sheets. I’m talking about beautiful, raw, truth-telling data �...

Topics People & Pizzerias

Hot Take: Donna Baldwin, Truly Pizza, Dana Point, California

A Q&A with California-based Truly Pizza co-founder Donna Baldwin Las Vegas hospitality veteran Donna Baldwin collaborated with pizza icon John Arena and pizza champions Chris Decker and Michael Vakneen to create a one-of-a-kind pizza experience, ...

Topics Dough

Following the Grain | Adding Whole Grains to Pizza Dough

Incorporate whole grains into your pizza dough for texture, color and variety When Julia Duncan-Roitman set out to open Joy Hill pizzeria in Denver, she hoped to work with a local mill to source heirloom wheat varieties. Inspired by the nutritional v...

Topics Menu Development

A Sauce for Every Course

Expand and enhance your menu with your house-made sauces If you’ve never put pasta sauce on a pizza, why not? Personally, sauce is one of my favorite things to make and eat. Our motto at my shop is, “Don’t mess with the sauce,” and I’ve cre...

Topics Sauces

Amatriciana Sauce

Get Audrey Kelly’s Amatriciana Sauce Recipe I first fell in love with this sauce during a trip to Rome. The deeply savory flavor of the guanciale and sharp, salty tang of Pecorino were unlike any other sauce I’d had. Once I returned, I manica...

Topics Employee Management Operations

Restaurants as a Career | Slicing Through the Stigma

How partnering with career and technical education creates career paths in pizza For decades, public education operated under a singular, rigid mandate: push every student toward a four-year college degree. The cultural narrative was absolute – to ...

Topics Employee Management

FOH vs BOH: Ending the Division | Front of House and Back of House United

Connecting the front and back of house It’s Tuesday afternoon, and lunch has been slow – the kind of quiet that makes every small sound in the kitchen more noticeable. I’m standing at the pass watching a pizzaiolo – really just the back of hi...

Topics Brand & Marketing

Finding Your Voice on Social Media

Personalize your social media to build meaningful connections In today’s business environment, it is necessary for companies to be on social media. If your pizzeria doesn’t have a presence online, it may as well not even exist (at least to anyone...

April 2026

Read the April 2026 Issue of Pizza Today Magazine

Pizza Trendsetter: Marisol Doyle Leña Pizza + Bagels – Cleveland, Mississippi | Women of Influence

Heart of the Community: Tiffany Fixter Brewability – Englewood, Colorado | Women of Influence

Spring Blossoms Pizza | Leah’s Recipe

Pizza Expo Columbus 2026 | Expo Spotlight

Technology Tastemaker: Jane Grote-Abell Donatos – Columbus, Ohio (headquarters) | Women of Influence

Industry Trailblazer: Victoria Tiso Tori T’s Pizzeria – Malverne, New York // 914 Pizza – Harrison, New York | Women of Influence

Operational Oracle: Hengam Stanfield, Mattenga’s Pizzeria – San Antonio, Texas | Women of Influence

Pizza Master: Giorgia Caporuscio Don Antonio – New York, New York | Women of Influence

Pizzeria Women of Influence

Women of Influence | Commentary

Yeast Choices for Pizza Dough: Rise to the Occasion | Knead to Know

Remaining Authentic in the Age of AI | Slice of Advice

Destinations: Mercurio’s, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

The Product Mix Heatmap | Rickman’s Rule

Hot Take: Donna Baldwin, Truly Pizza, Dana Point, California

Following the Grain | Adding Whole Grains to Pizza Dough

A Sauce for Every Course

Amatriciana Sauce

Restaurants as a Career | Slicing Through the Stigma

FOH vs BOH: Ending the Division | Front of House and Back of House United

Finding Your Voice on Social Media

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