Old Scratch Pizza leads with 'Midwesternly Neapolitan' pizza

About this episode

Mandy Detwiler interviews Eric Soller about his journey in opening Old Scratch Pizza and his approach to pizza making.

In this episode of the Pizza Marketplace Podcast, Mandy Detwiler, editor of Pizza Marketplace and QSRweb.com, talks to Eric Soller, founder of Old Scratch Pizza in Dayton, Ohio. With a formal culinary background and years working with mixer giant Hobart, Soller said he was primed and ready to open his own restaurant. "I love pizza," Soller said. "I was thinking about a lot of things, but I kept coming back to pizza. In my experience with Hobart and then later in sort of corporate world, I tra...

People in this episode

Host: Mandy Detwiler

Guest: Eric Soller

Topics covered

• pizza
• restaurant industry
• culinary arts

Keywords

• Midwesternly Neapolitan
• Dayton
• Old Scratch Pizza

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Hobart mixer

Places: Dayton, Ohio

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