Sean Feeney

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It was a conversation.

It was hospitality.

It was the same language we used at our other restaurants now in this little pizzeria.

And number three, if we could do those two things really well, what I loved about pizzerias growing up was that

whether they meant it or not, the impact they had on their neighborhoods.

And I always loved being on a soccer team or a basketball team that had the name of the pizzeria on the jersey.

I thought it was so cool that a pizzeria would give $200 to a bitty basketball league, and I got that t-shirt.

And I was thinking of, well, what if we took 3% of our revenue and put it really back into the neighborhood?

And then there's things that we could do that actually don't cost money but shows the neighborhood that we love them.

Like, if you read three books in a month, show us the titles and write two sentences, you get a free pizza for your family.

If you show us proof that you did a neighborhood volunteer project...

you get a free pizza for your family.

If you are protecting our neighborhood or are trying to make it a brighter future, you get a 25% discount like FDNY and NYPD and any educator that's possibly helping our neighborhood's future or safety right now.

These ideas were exciting to me.

And then I just had this amazing creative partner who had been with us since he was 20 years old at Lilia and was now 27 looking for a new challenge in his adult life and giving him the opportunity to be an owner of a business was exciting and he got excited about that and we did it.

And it's just been an awesome run of putting that plan into action.

And in that one year of finally opening in 2022, we were able to open three others.

I don't know how many we will do.

I don't think about it like that.