Congratulations to Lou Siecinski and Mark Gold, homeowners of Pizza Shuttle, Inc. in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. We’ve named Pizza Shuttle our 2009 Impartial Pizzeria of the Yr primarily based on their quarter-century of success. Final 12 months, Pizza Shuttle was ranked No. 32 on our annual checklist of America’s Sizzling 100 Impartial pizza operations with $5.75 million in gross sales. Pizza Shuttle has just one location — its gross sales are far increased than different unbiased firms with 5, six and even 9 shops.
Amongst America’s one unit pizzerias, Pizza Shuttle is the second largest. Solely Moose’s Tooth Pizza & Pub in Anchorage, Alaska, does a better quantity. Moose’s Tooth was our 2003 Impartial of the Yr. Satirically, Pizza Shuttle made its first Pizza Right this moment cowl that exact same 12 months. In late 2002, we ran a “Cowl Contest” — the winner obtained to be featured in our January 2003 version. Pizza Shuttle obtained probably the most votes on our Web page, incomes them the excellence and an in-depth profile contained in the journal.
What makes Pizza Shuttle so spectacular? Its homeowners credit score a relentless give attention to high quality. From the place I sit, that’s by no means a nasty place to begin. To study extra about Pizza Shuttle and its success, try Mandy Wolf Detwiler’s article on web page 54. Additionally, make sure you watch the video that we’ll have up on the house web page of PizzaToday.com for the primary two weeks of August. It’ll offer you a greater sense of how Mark and Lou run their enterprise and what makes Pizza Shuttle the predominant pizza pressure in Milwaukee.
On one other word, I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out that our September situation is simply across the nook. I do know we’ve been teasing you with it for a while — we’re promising a serious trade occasion, in print, for 09.09.09. Don’t miss it.
Finest,
Jeremy White, editor-in-chief
