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Luca Iovine

Owner of Gianni's Pizza in Richboro, Pennsylvania, featured on The First Customer podcast about running a neighborhood pizzeria.

Oct 2, 2026

7:39
[laughs]
7:40
And after that he like looked at me.
7:43
He's like, you know, "Like you can't be yelling or saying anything to the other employees.
7:47
You could come and talk to me.
7:48
We could, you know, figure it out, go past that and, you know, see if we gotta fix the resolution." But I took that as like, I guess like I was hardheaded and I like kinda looked at it and I kinda understood what he was saying and I just like, I'm like, "You know what? You're right.
8:06
It's probably best if I walk away." And I ended up getting a job as a server at another restaurant for a little bit and, and even that transition I was like, I'm like, you know, "I'll be a server, bartender, BS." Did that, and while I was doing that back in, it's a little before 2011, he came up to me.
8:22
My dad was trying to do his own thing at the time.

12 MINS LATER

20:52
And then tell everybody why starting a restaurant is a fantastic idea.

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