QSRweb Podcast

&pizza CEO talks about restaurant worker pay, brands as community unifiers

It's the counter-culture pizza brand behind "The Hallway Pizza Guy," with those offbeat oval pies and a business mission to unite communities, even in its very ununified home base of Washington, D.C. This week's two-part podcast features &pizza CEO Michael Lastoria who gets down to earth about the pizza business.

March 8, 2019

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Podcast Summary

As the old newspaper-referencing riddle goes, "What's black-and-white and red/read all over?" The answer used to be newspapers (before they started using color), but today you might just as well answer, "&pizza." From its "in-your-face" black-and-white branding, to its habit of inserting its sentiments into the reams of written online chatter, this D.C.-based counter-culture brand is, indeed, black, white and read all over.

In this two-part podcast, the brand's CEO Michael Lastoria talks about building a better-paying pizza brand for employees and a source for unity in communities. So, while some pizza business leaders might disagree with what Lastoria has to say about the business, they will probably has have fun hearing him say it during this first part of today's QSRweb podcast.

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