Pizza Marketplace Podcast
Pizza Marketplace Podcast
Networld Media Group
&pizza CEO doubles down on franchising efforts, increasing growth
22 minutes Posted May 14, 2025 at 10:00 am.
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In this episode of the Pizza Marketplace Podcast, host Mandy Detwiler, editor of Pizza Marketplace, talks to Mike Burns, CEO of &pizza based out of Washington, D.C. The brand was founded in 2012 by Michael Astoria who's still involved with the brand today. Astoria traveled the country and found D.C. was a blank slate and ripe for a gourmet pizza brand. "Really, there wasn't a staple pizza here in D.C.," Burns said in the podcast. Astoria built one shop, unsuspecting that it would take off...