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Punch Pizza opens seventh location in Minnesota
December 14, 2009
Thirteen-year-old Neapolitan chain Punch Pizza has opened its seventh location in its Minneapolis home near the University of Minnesota, according to mndaily.com. The chain is owned by John Soranno and John Puckett, the latter being the founder of Caribou Coffee. Pucket and Soranno could be the first to take true Neapolitan pizza -- with its high-temperature, wood-burning oven cooking method, Italian-sourced ingredients, and special-trained pizzaiolo -- to the masses, if they get the methodology down right for this artesian tradition. No word whether that's actually the strategy.
From mndaily:
Soranno said it takes two years to train someone to master cooking pizzas on the wood-burning stove. The owners said they don't want their business to expand faster than they can train their employees.To cater to the college audience at the new Stadium Village location, Soranno and Puckett added an iPod jack in one of the tables so patrons can play their own music over the speakers. They also increased their usual lineup of tap beers to six.
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