So your favorite pizza joint delivers. Big deal. Do they deliver if, say, you’re stuck in Vermont?
A Nassau business, IWantNYPizza, has made a living sending our local delicacy far and wide … to California even. Today, Web royalty Yahoo featured the company’s owner, Ed Powell, in its People of the Web feature, which includes an article and a video about the delivery master. The business also ships New York bagels across the country.
From the article:
“We’ve had hundreds of emails from people. Folks have told us that they’ve had loved ones across the country who were going for medical tests and were in dire straits and then opened up the pizza and had a great experience,” says Powers.
In the three years since Powers created IWantNYPizza, he has delivered some memorable pies. “Folks who have gone away to Iraq and Afghanistan, serving in the United States military, had their last pizza from New York before they went over.”
He set up a network of other pizza restaurants to make, bake and ship the pies, which maximizes their efficiency and profits by using their down times to fill the orders.
The pies are cooked for ten minutes, flash frozen, vacuum-packed with dry-ice type gel packs, and then shipped by UPS. Powers recommends next day delivery, but that often costs more than the $15 pizzas.
