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October 2025

Published: September 29, 2025Denise Greer
Pizza Today Magazine, October 2025, halloween themed cover

Read the October 2025 Issue of Pizza Today Magazine

It’s National Pizza Month! We’re celebrating all month long with pizzeria community impact stories. See how pizzerias are making a difference in their communities. The inaugural Pizza Expo Columbus takes over the Columbus Convention Center on October 26-27. Get a preview of all the excitement to expect. In this issue, we also dive into what makes the perfect pepperoni slice and breakfast pizza inspiration. Find tips leadership traits and how to maximize user-generated content.

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

 

Topics People & Pizzerias

Punxsy Pizza, Punxsutawney, PA | Pizzeria Community Impact

EDITOR’S NOTE: Happy National Pizza Month! This October, we are celebrating America’s favorite food and the people who make it by featuring pizzerias that give back to their communities. To have your pizzeria included, email dgreer@pizzatoday...
Topics Industry NewsPeople & Pizzerias

Rochester, NY- based Linda’s NY Pizzeria Helps Make Kids Dreams Come True | Pizzeria Community Impact

EDITOR’S NOTE: Happy National Pizza Month! This October, we are celebrating America’s favorite food and the people who make it by featuring pizzerias that give back to their communities. To have your pizzeria included, email dgreer@pizzatoday...
Topics People & Pizzerias

MOD Pizza | Pizzeria Community Impact

EDITOR’S NOTE: Happy National Pizza Month! This October, we are celebrating America’s favorite food and the people who make it by featuring pizzerias that give back to their communities. To have your pizzeria included, email dgreer@pizzatoday...
Topics People & Pizzerias

Greenville Avenue Pizza Co. | Pizzeria Community Impact

EDITOR’S NOTE: Happy National Pizza Month! This October, we are celebrating America’s favorite food and the people who make it by featuring pizzerias that give back to their communities. To have your pizzeria included, email dgreer@pizzatoday...
Topics People & Pizzerias

Spinato’s Pizzeria & Family Kitchen | Pizzeria Community Impact

EDITOR’S NOTE: Happy National Pizza Month! This October, we are celebrating America’s favorite food and the people who make it by featuring pizzerias that give back to their communities. To have your pizzeria included, email dgreer@pizzatoday...
Topics People & Pizzerias

Slice Out Hunger | Pizzeria Community Impact

EDITOR’S NOTE: Happy National Pizza Month! This October, we are celebrating America’s favorite food and the people who make it by featuring pizzerias that give back to their communities. To have your pizzeria included, email dgreer@pizzatoday...
Topics People & Pizzerias

Down North Pizza | Pizzeria Community Impact

EDITOR’S NOTE: Happy National Pizza Month! This October, we are celebrating America’s favorite food and the people who make it by featuring pizzerias that give back to their communities. To have your pizzeria included, email dgreer@pizzatoday...
Topics People & Pizzerias

Adam Sweet, Problem Child, Little Rock, AR | A Conversation

A Quick Q&A with Adam Sweet, owner of Problem Child in Little Rock, Arkansas PIZZA CONCEPT: A little rock-and-roll pizza shop with a killer cocktail menu and wine list – the best cheeseburger in town, too. It’s my answer to everything I grew ...
Topics Dough

The Perfect Pizza Dough Ball Weight | Knead to Know

Dough ball weight matters for every pizza style How to pick the perfect size dough ball. It’s one of millions of questions any pizzeria operator needs to decide upon when starting something new. There are a couple of ways to go about this, but ulti...
Topics Industry News

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year | Commentary

As our cover may indicate, it’s “Spooky SZN!” I’ve always loved Halloween. Even before I was old enough to know that October was National Pizza Month, it was already my favorite month of the year. It is, to me, “the most wonderful time of t...
Topics People & Pizzerias

Brewability | Pizzeria Community Impact

EDITOR’S NOTE: Happy National Pizza Month! This October, we are celebrating America’s favorite food and the people who make it by featuring pizzerias that give back to their communities. To have your pizzeria included, email dgreer@pizzatoday...
Topics Award NewsEvent NewsIndustry NewsPeople & Pizzerias

Midwest Style: Pizza Expo Columbus Preview

First-ever Pizza Expo Columbus is making its debut in the Midwest on Oct. 26-27, 2025, in Columbus, Ohio. This inaugural event is designed to bring the vibrant energy of the pizza industry to a new region, offering a unique opportunity for profession...
Topics Award NewsIndustry NewsMenu DevelopmentPeople & PizzeriasPizzas

Breakfast for Dinner

Brunch pizzas turn Friday night feast into fuel for weekend mornings After a long day working catering jobs, Ryan Mondragon often comes home hungry for pizza – but not the wood-fired American pies he serves up as a mobile pizza catering operator in...
Topics DoughMenu DevelopmentPizzas

America’s Favorite Slice

Building the perfect slice of pepperoni pizza Everyone always talks about the ultimate cheese slice, but what about the perfection that is a pepperoni slice? A well-made pepperoni slice should have the right balance of spice, salt, meatiness and, yes...
Topics Employee ManagementOperations

More Than a Pizzeria Manager

Be the leader your pizzeria needs While some are natural-born leaders, most leaders are made over years of intentional progress. Developing strong leadership traits and skills often gets lost in the weeds in the day-to-day operations of running a piz...
Topics Employee ManagementOperations

Liquor Liability

Train staff members about alcohol service to minimize risk Pizzerias that don’t adhere to the legal nuances of serving alcohol can face serious consequences. The biggest risk to restaurants happens when a patron who imbibed onsite later gets into a...
Topics Brand & MarketingOperationsPeople & Pizzerias

User-Generated Content

Pizzeria owners can leverage comments and photos that customers post on social media It’s good to get positive feedback from customers, and if it’s on social media, even better. Savvy pizzeria owners can do more than just read the approving posts...
Topics Pizzas

Tezza Pizza | On Deck

Pizza recipe features guanciale, pear, apple mostarda, radicchio, arugula and balsamic Is everyone feeling the best season of the year!?! If not, this recipe will get you there. This pizza is my take on pork and apples, with a twist. I used guanciale...
Topics Brand & Marketing

Implementing your Marketing Plan | Building Blocks

“I love it when a plan comes together!” – Col. John “Hannibal” Smith, A-Team You can have the best ideas, but if you cannot execute them, then they are useless. In last month’s column, we talked all about ideas for marketing. Now, it’s ...
Topics Operations

Outsourcing: the Smartest Move You’re Likely Ignoring | Mike’s Monthly Tip

If you’re assigning marketing or creative tasks to someone on your team because they’re “kinda good with Canva,” you’re setting yourself up for disappointment. You’re also likely to overload the staff members who were not hired for that j...
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