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Our line of 22 gauge cold rolled steel Sicilian/Grandma/Focaccia pans in action. John Arena and Chris Bianco recently endorsed them. We use my grandfather’s sausage recipe. He was from Italy and worked 60 years as a butcher/Italian meat maker in Newark NJ. John Arena - “Smiling with Hope Pizza...

We have been working for a year on getting this thing going. Here is a link. Home | Smiling With Hope Enterprises (swhenterprises.com)

We had a wonderful experience today. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto awarded us for our work with people with disabilities and being rated #3 in the USA on Yelp this year. Boy, do we have some inspiring things happen in the little pizzeria. Judy and I thank everyone for enriching our employees...

I found out today Yelp released their top 25 in the USA list. We made #3. The last one we were #1 - we be slippin’… 🙂 Where is the best pizza? Yelp’s list of top 25 pizza places in country includes just one from Chicago (wgntv.com)

I have been working on filling the void on 22 gauge cold rolled steel Sicilian pans since Allied Metal in Brooklyn went out of business. I have a local metal fabricator who is a fan of our pizzas making 12x12 and 12x18 sizes. This is the fist proto type and it was a home run 🙂 We will be selling...

I recently discovered, IMO, the best made peel out there. https://www.thebakersboard.com/ Larry the owner is a true artisan in craftsmanship and customer service. Here is my story. We own Smiling with Hope Pizza, in Reno NV, a small mom/pop model that makes NY style pizza. Growing up in NJ, 15...

We were rated #1 on Yelp. Here is the story and a local TV spot on it. Walter https://www.kolotv.com/content/news/Local-pizzeria-earns-national-honor-564505191.html...

After a year of being bombarded with third party delivery services I was able to get all but Postmates to take us off their websites. They put you on them without asking and then send drivers to place/pick up orders. I sent countless emails, told drivers not to come back (drivers change all the...

I am looking for a gas powered one in very nice shape. We are located in Reno, NV. Thanks. Walter

We made the Yelp Top 100 Places to Eat for 2018. This is the 2nd year we made the list in our 2 years open. Last year we were 46 and this year 98. I think we dropped because most places on the list have more reviews than we do. I know people slam Yelp but the bottom line is people write the...

We can’t believe it and seeing that Yelp is totally customer rated with owners not being able to alter reviews makes it all the nicer. Thanks everyone for a wonderful 1st year. It shows mom/pop operations can still make it in this world of franchises 🙂 Walter/Judy...

Our pizzeria is being included in this app that will be in the Mini Cooper cars - crazy. We are the digital marketing agency for MINI USA and we are developing an app for new MINI owners called The Spontaneous Motoring app. MINI drivers love to take their car for a spin so we decided to curate...

We will be closed for lunch tomorrow, Thursday, in order to introduce Senator Kaine to an audience at UNR at 11am. What an honor this is and all our employees/volunteers have been invited too and they may be in for pizza today/tomorrow. walter/judy

Last night a woman showed up for a take out order. The problem was we didn’t take an order from her. She did some investigation and found out she ordered a pie from a shop in Oregon (we are Reno). Turns out she couldn’t remember our name and typed in smiles on a search and it connected her to...

Today NPR aired a story on us and a video. Here are the links. FYI I am singing and playing the harp-my other life 🙂 . Walter http://kunr.org/post/reno-pizzeria-gives-hope-people-disabilities#stream/0

We are the top rated pizzeria in Reno, NV, on Yelp. This has brought in a lot of business from the many people that travel here for business and recreation. It is very moving to find this out as we have only been open since Jan 6th and have done no advertising/specials of any kind and have just...

http://www.rgj.com/story/life/2016/05/24/erin-breen-smiling-hope/84871368/

the phone rang this morning and I saw the (212) area code (NYC) and wondered who that could be? I figured it was a friend calling to say hi and was I surprised when it was NBC. They interviewed me and some other people for the article and put it out by lunch time. The news world sure moves fast...

We recently bought a Thunderbird 80 quart mixer and it has been nothing but one breakdown after another so we are sending it back to them and buying a Hobart legacy 60 quart. The 662 is billed as a pizza mixer with 2 fixed speeds yet the attachment hub has 5 speeds that go at high rpms. I was...

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