Make Better Pizza and Grow Your Business in 2027
Running a pizzeria is a lot like making pizza. You can have a great recipe, the best ingredients and all the right equipment, but eventually something is going to go sideways.
An employee calls out. A system that worked six months ago suddenly doesn’t. Training falls through the cracks. Sales aren’t where you want them to be.
Or maybe you’ve built a great reputation but haven’t figured out how to turn that reputation into something that actually moves the needle.
That’s why we’re taking a slightly different approach with our next Level Up webinar.
On Tuesday, Oct. 6 at 2 p.m. EST, we’re bringing together three experienced pizza professionals — U.S. Pizza Team Captain Salvatore “Tore” Trupiano, Enrico “Rico” Lunardi and Kira Zabrowski — for an Ask Me Anything-style conversation about the real-world challenges of running and growing a pizzeria.
And while we’ll leave plenty of room for your questions, this isn’t going to be three people sitting around waiting for somebody to raise a hand. We’ve got a roadmap.
Tore will dig into some of the systems, training and operational lessons he’s picked up over decades in the restaurant business and through his work with the U.S. Pizza Team. Rico brings the perspective of an operator who has built and managed multiple restaurant concepts, along with years of competition and team experience. Kira brings her own mix of restaurant operations, education, creativity, branding and marketing — including the challenge of turning a reputation into something that creates real business opportunities.
That’s the point of this conversation. Not recruiting or a sales pitch. Not another webinar where somebody tells you that there’s one magic answer to every problem.
It’s a chance to pick the brains of people who have been doing this for a long time.
We’ll talk about building better systems and getting your team to actually use them. We’ll talk about training employees, developing people and making sure the knowledge you gain doesn’t disappear when you walk out the door. We’ll talk about collaboration, competition and mentorship, and how those experiences can give you new ideas to take back to your own operation.
We’ll also talk about something every independent operator understands: reputation.
You’ve worked hard to make good pizza, serve your customers well and establish a name for yourself. But what happens next? How do you turn that reputation into publicity, opportunity, customer engagement and, ultimately, revenue?
And then there’s the best part: your questions.
Got a problem? Yo, we’ll solve it! Trying to figure out how to improve a system? Bring it. Wondering how another operator handles something that’s driving you nuts? This is your chance to ask people who have been in the trenches.
Think of it as part panel discussion, part problem-solving session and part pizza-industry group therapy.
Or, as a certain ’90s rapper once put it: Stop. Collaborate and listen. We’re bringing the experience. You bring the questions.
Level Up: Make Better Pizza and Grow Your Business in 2027 takes place Tuesday, Oct. 6 at 2 p.m. EST.
Register here: https://tinyurl.com/Level-Up-Social
Sponsored by Galbani Professionale and brought to you by the U.S. Pizza Team.
