The Pivot That Launched Pizza Girl

So what made you create your business? Do you love pizza? Do you think about if you have a night where you're going to watch a movie or you just want to relax? That's when I think about wanting pizza or sharing it with friends or sharing it in a gathering with a big group of people.

Absolutely.

I also think that there should be more access to really high quality pizza, like really delicious pizza.

I don't understand why it hasn't really come into our freezers yet, where it's not loaded with all kinds of preservatives, where you cannot read and understand the ingredients that are about to go into your body and your family's body.

And also, why does it look so weird and taste so bad? And so I think being able to solve that problem for people Every home in America has always been a dream of mine because, listen, delivery, it's not great.

By the time it gets there, no matter how good the pizza is, it can be cold.

The delivery driver can make it third in line in their car.

They can shift and it can just Spill everywhere.

People can get things wrong.

And I just think that what we have developed to solve that problem, it feels so good to have families call me and reach out and be like, oh my gosh, this is incredible.

My kids come home from school and I have five of these parbaked pizzas on subscription in my freezer that fit perfectly in your tabletop ovens that are super cute and can go on any counter indoors.

are very competitive when it comes to how they cook with the very big and clunky pizza ovens.

And we were told that pizza is supposed to be difficult and intricate and you need these expensive ovens.

But what about college kids? What about moms in apartments? What about people who don't have access to giant, you know, outdoor oven space? By the way, the people that have those ovens, a lot of people have sent me videos of them throwing those out and replacing it with my cute little countertop

oven.

Oh, I love it.

Tell us about your countertop oven.

Yes.

We needed a solution to make these pizzas quickly and delicious wherever we went through our catering department.

And...

Pizza's really hard to cater.

Unless you have, as you've seen in a lot of different catering events, they have a giant dome of an oven and it's like someone's there and he's tossing the dough and it's great, but you can't serve hundreds, let alone thousands.

You're doing small events and your line is miles long because of the turnover time.

So out of tragedy, we discovered Through the fires.

When the fires happened in LA, I started donating thousands of pizzas with the help of the community.