Fregene's chef picked for World Pizza Champions team
April 24, 2007
PETALUMA, Calif. —Chef Glenn Cybulski, owner/founder and executive chef of Fregene's Pizza, has now been elected to a position on the World Pizza Champions, America's Number One Pizza Team.
Chef Glenn took second place in his heat out of more than 50 contestants at the International Pizza Challenge at the Las Vegas Pizza Expo last month with his original recipe, the Chipotle Chicken Pizza. Members of the World Pizza Champions team took notice of Chef Glenn's abilities and invited him to join the team.
The World Pizza Champions Team is a group of the some of the best pizza chefs and pizza "acrobats" in the world. They bring their top quality pizza recipes to worldwide competitions and give demonstrations in pizza dough spinning, flipping and stretching.
The World Pizza Champions US Team just returned from the Pizza Olympics held in Salsomagiorre, Italy, where they won the Gold Medal in the Team Acrobatics Competition for a record second year in a row and brought home a total of six medals and awards.
Chef Glenn will be traveling to debut with the team in Naples, Italy in June for the World Pizza Cup.
Fregene's Pizza currently has three Sonoma County, Calif., locations in downtown Petaluma, Cotati and Sebastopol, with a fourth location slated to open in Santa Rosa before summer.
For more information, visit www.Fregenes.com.