How a Second-Generation Pizza Owner Doubled Revenue
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How did Giuseppe’s 28‑inch pizza become a walking billboard for the brand?
For noon in Philadelphia for the the biggest pizza, we have a twenty eight inch pizza and we cut it into eight and it's a massive slice. So pretty much when people see the slice of pizza, automatically they already know where it's coming from. So it's like a like a walking billboard.
Giuseppe Polizzi is a dedicated entrepreneur, family business leader, and the owner of Lorenzo and Sons Pizza. Drawing from his father's wisdom and his own education, he has grown the family business while honoring the legacy that shaped him and creating one of his own.
My father started back uh nineteen seventy and then I started tweaking it and I won up doubling his revenue within like eight months of being there. And that's where I believe my education came in to grant me that success to do that and to flip what he did. And it was just it worked. What's the key to running a successful restaurant? You never have a day off. Your phone is always on. There's something that's gonna happen to you. You gotta pick up that phone. And then if you teach your the team the proper way, they don't need to call you. They're able to manage and handle things without you being there.
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Hey, welcome back everyone to another episode of Living Your Legacy Podcast, where we have the uh privilege to talk to some of the best entrepreneurs around the country. And today we got a special guest. Uh I like the shirt he's wearing. It's talking about pizza. We're gonna dive deep into it. But uh yeah, introduce yourself, what's your name, where are you from, and what's your business?
Okay, so I'm Giuseppe Belize. I'm from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and we have the place called Lorenzo and Sun's Pizza in Philadelphia.
All right, cool. So is it just pizzas or come out of Philly you guys do cheesesteaks or So
we're known in Philadelphia for the the biggest pizza. We have a twenty-eight inch pizza. So and we cut it into eight and it's a massive slice. So pretty much when people see the slice of pizza, automatically they already know where it's coming from. So it's like a like a walking billboard, basically. Yeah,
yeah, yeah. Uh so guizepe, is that Giuseppe. G Giuseppe. So Giuseppe, um Where does your dough come from? I know pizza's all about the dough, right? So are you importing it from Italy? You making it yourself?
Why did Giuseppe turn down the family pizzeria keys and what changed his mind?
Everything everything's homemade. But uh actually for me the best ingredient is the sauce.
Is the sauce.
Okay. I anyone can make a dough. I believe you can go buy it frozen in the supermarkets here nowadays, but the sauce you buy, but we actually we make everything in house. So the sauce is made in house, the dough is made in house. And I have my own line of uh mozzarella cheese.
Oh right.
So which means other places can't purge the same cheese 'cause my name my name, my logo, everything's on in. So it's pretty much my brand.
Nice, nice, nice. So what's the secret to a good sauce? That's
why it's a secret.
Okay, okay, okay. Uh keep it
fresh. Keep it you keep it fresh. Fresh ingredients, right? Always
always like keep it simple.
Yes. Keep it simple. Don't over overpower it. A lot of people think you need to put all the spices. I love the taste of the natural like tomatoes. So especially of my other location we have in Westchester, we do a gourmet sauce. So the tomatoes are from Italy. They come over here and then we break it down and I actually make it and then I add no water whatsoever to my uh sauce. Because I want you to taste the actual flavor of the tomatoes.
Uh who's gonna water it down? Come on, who would know what's a watered down sauce? Yeah,
to make more money they wanna water it down, so you can't tell, but I I can tell.
Oh uh so people often they they come to America and they're like, Oh what's American food like?
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
How did Giuseppe’s 28‑inch pizza become a walking billboard for the brand?
0:00–2:33
2
Why did Giuseppe turn down the family pizzeria keys and what changed his mind?
2:33–4:33
3
How did a health crisis and a career in perfusion medicine lead him back to pizza?
4:33–6:35
4
What technology and operational tools did Giuseppe add to modernize the shop?
6:35–8:36
5
How did training the team to solve problems independently reduce his daily workload?
8:36–10:16
6
Why does location matter and how did the stadium and casino sites fuel growth?
10:16–12:24
7
What low‑cost marketing tactics turned the pizza into a free Instagram‑able billboard?
12:24–14:54
8
How can listeners find Lorenzo & Son’s locations and order online?
14:54–18:04
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