August 2025

Published: July 29, 2025Denise Greer

Read the August 2025 Issue of Pizza Today Magazine

In this issue, we announce Pizza Today’s 2025 Pizzeria of the Year. Find out how the owners turned a failing pizzeria purchase into a fast growing pizza business. Learn how it make a sourdough starter. It’s Green Season! Green Chile, that is. Explore menu ideas that add New Mexican flavors to your pizza menu. Find out which strip mall locations work best for pizzerias – and how to maximize traffic. Discover why pizzerias are investing in custom mobile apps to capture sales and return visits. Tap into addictive bar menu options to increase check averages.

Check out the full Digital Edition — Pizza Today August 2025.

Topics Dough

How to Make a Sourdough Starter | Knead to Know

A Step-by-step Guide to Making a Sourdough Starter (and Maintaining One) Sourdough isn’t for everyone. Making it, eating it, maintaining it. There are plenty of preferments that can add great complexity, flavor and texture to your dough – and ext...

Topics Menu Development

Green Season | Fresh Green Chile Menu Ideas

The smoky flavor of green chiles makes a welcome addition to appetizers, pizzas and more New Mexico’s Hatch Valley is known as the chile capital of the world. Starting in late July or early August, visitors travel to New Mexico to experience “gre...

Topics Menu Development

Bar Bites | Appetizer Ideas from Bar Menus

These dough-based small plates are sure to please Bar food is addictive. From chicken wings and mozzarella sticks to fried pickles, nachos and sliders, customers are looking for a prequel to their pizza main event. Including bar bites on your menu ca...

Topics Brand & Marketing

Answering your pizza fans’ APP-etite

Build out your restaurant ordering app to engage with your customers Third-party ordering apps have found enormous success and restaurant apps can too. It may be time to develop or update your first-party channel to capture app users. The reason? Foo...

Topics Event News Industry News

Kevin King, President and CEO of Donatos Pizza, is Coming to Pizza Expo Columbus!

Donatos Pizza President and CEO Kevin King tapped to give Keynote Address at Pizza Expo Columbus We’re excited to announce that Kevin King will be the keynote speaker for the inaugural Pizza Expo Columbus, which will take place Oct. 26-27 at The Gr...

Topics Industry News

Pizzeria of the Year | Mattenga’s Pizzeria! | Commentary

I want to take this opportunity to be the first to congratulate Matt and Hengam Stanfield. The co-founders of Mattenga’s Pizzeria in San Antonio are a pizza power couple like no other. They have steadily grown their Texas-based pizza company into a...

Topics People & Pizzerias

2025 Pizzeria of the Year: Mattenga’s Pizzeria in San Antonio, Texas

Pizza Today Names Mattenga’s Pizzeria in San Antonio, Texas, the 2025 Pizzeria of the Year | Mastering the Mattenga’s Playbook Hengam and Matthew Stanfield set out to work side-by-side to build a restaurant business and prioritize their famil...

Topics Finance & Growth

The Hot-selling Move | Building Blocks

“Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time.” – Henry Ford As a very young manager, I learned the importance of marketing. I was a 22-year-old manager working for one of the big pizza companies. Once per month, ...

Topics People & Pizzerias

Lover’s Deli, Merced, California | Pizzeria Destinations

Learn How Lover’s Deli Uses ‘Hispanic flavors’ on Its Pizzas in California’s Central Valley Inspired by classic mom-and-pop shops portrayed on screen, Lover’s Deli was created to look like it’s always been there, says co-owner Eli Torre...

Topics Operations

Soda: The No. 1 Pricing Decision You’ll Make | Mike’s Monthly Tip

You know what people notice most on your menu? Your highest-priced item. If the pizza is over $30 – even if it feeds eight – the average customer thinks, “Oh, wow, that’s an expensive pizza.” That’s the one they talk about, compare and cr...

Topics People & Pizzerias

Mona Lisa and Michael Sharp of Sharpiros Pizzeria | Conversation

Q&A with Mona Lisa and Michael Sharp, who were presented with a $50,000 check by TikTok sensation Keith Lee to recognize their community outreach in Convers, Georgia Pizza Concept Mona Lisa Sharp: Our pizzas originate from Buffalo, New York, and ...

Topics Operations

Standing Out in a Strip Mall | Restaurants & Pizzerias

Eight ways to draw positive attention to your business in a commercial hub With more than half of all U.S. adults living in suburban areas, strip malls – or “strip centers,” as they are called by real estate developers – are popular real es...

August 2025

Read the August 2025 Issue of Pizza Today Magazine

How to Make a Sourdough Starter | Knead to Know

Green Season | Fresh Green Chile Menu Ideas

Bar Bites | Appetizer Ideas from Bar Menus

Answering your pizza fans’ APP-etite

Kevin King, President and CEO of Donatos Pizza, is Coming to Pizza Expo Columbus!

Pizzeria of the Year | Mattenga’s Pizzeria! | Commentary

2025 Pizzeria of the Year: Mattenga’s Pizzeria in San Antonio, Texas

The Hot-selling Move | Building Blocks

Lover’s Deli, Merced, California | Pizzeria Destinations

Soda: The No. 1 Pricing Decision You’ll Make | Mike’s Monthly Tip

Mona Lisa and Michael Sharp of Sharpiros Pizzeria | Conversation

Standing Out in a Strip Mall | Restaurants & Pizzerias

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