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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 based mostly on their quarter-century of success. Final yr, Pizza Shuttle was ranked No. 32 on our annual listing of America’s Scorching 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 impartial corporations 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. Paradoxically, Pizza Shuttle made its first Pizza At the moment cowl that exact same yr. In late 2002, we ran a “Cowl Contest” — the winner acquired to be featured in our January 2003 version. Pizza Shuttle acquired essentially 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 house owners credit score a relentless give attention to high quality. From the place I sit, that’s by no means a foul place to start out. To study extra about Pizza Shuttle and its success, take a look at 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 provide you with 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 be aware, I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out that our September concern is simply across the nook. I do know we’ve been teasing you with it for a while — we’re promising a significant trade occasion, in print, for 09.09.09. Don’t miss it.
Greatest,
Jeremy White, editor-in-chief
