Congratulations to Lou Siecinski and Mark Gold, house owners of Pizza Shuttle, Inc. in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. We’ve named Pizza Shuttle our 2009 Impartial Pizzeria of the 12 months primarily based on their quarter-century of success. Final yr, Pizza Shuttle was ranked No. 32 on our annual record 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 larger than different impartial 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 the next quantity. Moose’s Tooth was our 2003 Impartial of the 12 months. Mockingly, Pizza Shuttle made its first Pizza At this time cowl that exact same yr. In late 2002, we ran a “Cowl Contest” — the winner obtained to be featured in our January 2003 version. Pizza Shuttle obtained essentially the most votes on our Website online, incomes them the excellence and an in-depth profile contained in the journal.
What makes Pizza Shuttle so spectacular? Its house owners 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, you’ll want to 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 drive in Milwaukee.
On one other notice, 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.
Greatest,
Jeremy White, editor-in-chief
