Sean Feeney

And how do you continue to create those moments in different mediums, but make people feel the same?

I think it's possible and it's exciting to experiment with.

Do you tell me the story of Feeney?

Feeney was a dream that I've always had since we opened restaurants.

I've grown up in New Jersey and I love pizzerias.

It is a place where I would go celebrate with my parents.

It's a place where we would have birthday parties.

It's a place where we would go after funerals.

It was just neighborhood pizzerias.

were very comfortable places.

And I loved them, not just because of the pizza they served, which I obsess about, but I loved what they meant to the neighborhoods that they were a part of.

They brought them together.

It was a place unlike any other restaurant that I had ever been to, where a little less formal, a little casual, but people came to be a part of something and they felt comfortable inside of them.

It was during the pandemic, for a couple years, I was putting it off because every time I would bring up pizza to Missy, she would say no.

And I knew when not to push.

But during the pandemic, around the end of 2020, I knew that our company was gonna be okay.

And I was able to start thinking about what is next.

And I got excited about this little space

three blocks away from my home.

Every morning I would walk from my house to Lilia and I would stop in front of this location and just stare.