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Tech Startup Slice Helps Local Pizzerias Get Online

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Re: Tech Startup Slice Helps Local Pizzerias Get Online

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Post by scottie_m »

tru3_power wrote: post #17
ardit33 wrote: post #4

Fun fact, some of the best "italian" pizzeria's in NYC are actually owned and/or run by Albanians. There is a whole generation of Albanians that moved in Italy (after the 90s), learned the trade there and eventually moved in NYC and opened their places. Fun fact number 2: A lot of greek places in NYC are actually operated by albanians. (for the same reasons as above). The main reason is marketing: People in the US kn…

I’m Albanian and can confirm. Numerous people in my family are in the pizza business. Most the Albanians I know in general are either in tech or the restuarant industry (more so restaurant industry).

I want to preface by saying that I have no issues with Albanians, this is just based on what I know of how some Greeks fell about Albanians.

Given that plenty of Greeks are, to put it mildly, less than fond of Albanians, is there a lot of tension in the Greek Diner/Pizzaria run by Greeks, and those run by Albanians? I hope not, but I’d guess that there is.

Re: Tech Startup Slice Helps Local Pizzerias Get Online

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Post by iambateman »

Waterluvian wrote: post #9
ardit33 wrote: post #4

Fun fact, some of the best "italian" pizzeria's in NYC are actually owned and/or run by Albanians. There is a whole generation of Albanians that moved in Italy (after the 90s), learned the trade there and eventually moved in NYC and opened their places. Fun fact number 2: A lot of greek places in NYC are actually operated by albanians. (for the same reasons as above). The main reason is marketing: People in the US kn…

Sounds like a feedback loop. They ought to slowly introduce "Albanian" options to their Italian and Greek menus.

Ask the Cambodian guy who runs a Chinese restaurant how that’s workin out ;)

Re: Tech Startup Slice Helps Local Pizzerias Get Online

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Post by PMan74 »

iambateman wrote: post #22
Waterluvian wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds like a feedback loop. They ought to slowly introduce "Albanian" options to their Italian and Greek menus.

Ask the Cambodian guy who runs a Chinese restaurant how that’s workin out ;)

Ask Babu Bhatt

Re: Tech Startup Slice Helps Local Pizzerias Get Online

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Post by geon »

jonaswi wrote: post #11
ardit33 wrote: post #4

Fun fact, some of the best "italian" pizzeria's in NYC are actually owned and/or run by Albanians. There is a whole generation of Albanians that moved in Italy (after the 90s), learned the trade there and eventually moved in NYC and opened their places. Fun fact number 2: A lot of greek places in NYC are actually operated by albanians. (for the same reasons as above). The main reason is marketing: People in the US kn…

Interesting. Here in Switzerland this is also true. A lot of Pizzerias are operated and owned by Albanians. I always thought that this only „happened“ here.

In Sweden, pizzerias are generally run by Turks or Syrians.

Re: Tech Startup Slice Helps Local Pizzerias Get Online

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Post by dgritsko »

> "the opportunity to build a business that could compete with Big Pizza by uniting tens of thousands of mom-and-pop shops"

This summary of Slice's business feels like it ought to be generalizable to other industries. Anyone have other examples of companies trying to do something similar in different verticals? (s/Big Pizza/Big Floral, or something?)

Re: Tech Startup Slice Helps Local Pizzerias Get Online

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Post by benatkin »

ardit33 wrote: post #4

Fun fact, some of the best "italian" pizzeria's in NYC are actually owned and/or run by Albanians. There is a whole generation of Albanians that moved in Italy (after the 90s), learned the trade there and eventually moved in NYC and opened their places. Fun fact number 2: A lot of greek places in NYC are actually operated by albanians. (for the same reasons as above). The main reason is marketing: People in the US kn…

In SF the only pizza place I ate at over a six-month period was owned by jwz, and the only pizza slices I ate were vegan ones. I'm not vegan, but I'm slightly lactose intolerant (or something).

I think that pizza is probably a blind spot for many SF/SV startup people. Not surprised this startup is based in NYC.

Is there an avocado toast startup?

Edit: come to think of it I had vegan pizza in NYC a year and a half ago (and on other days while I was visiting, I had some non-vegan pizza). I wonder if it was at a pizza place run by Albanians.

Re: Tech Startup Slice Helps Local Pizzerias Get Online

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Post by mprev »

scrooched_moose wrote: post #19

> Yet Sela believes consumers have been abandoning local shops--even those with fresher ingredients, better flavors and ties to their communities--mostly because they lack the ability to take mobile orders. That may be part of it, but among people I know the majority of it is cost. A 16" pizza at most of our favorite spots ends up around $25. I can get a 14" 3 topping pizza at Dominos for $7.99. The local pizza is gr…

Interesting. Dominos in the uk is horribly expensive in comparison.
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