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Pizza King Podcast: Empowering Pizzeria Leadership

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About this Podcast:

The Pizza King Podcast is where pizzeria owners and operators go to sharpen their skills, build better teams, and grow more profitable businesses. Hosted by Tyrell Reed—franchise leader, coach, and author of Next Level Leadership —each episode delivers practical insights, real-life stories, and expert advice to help you win in the pizza business. Whether you're opening your first shop or scaling your tenth, this show is your guide to pizza business excellence.

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What is Pizza King Podcast: Empowering Pizzeria Leadership about?

The Pizza King Podcast is where pizzeria owners and operators go to sharpen their skills, build better teams, and grow more profitable businesses. Hosted by Tyrell Reed, franchise leader, coach, and author of Next Level Leadership, each episode delivers practical insights, real-life stories, and expert advice to help you win in the pizza business.

What has Pizza King Podcast: Empowering Pizzeria Leadership covered recently?

Recent episodes include "Why Paulie Gee Stepped Off the Make Line" (19 October 2026, 37 minutes), "Stop Guessing Your Pizza Costs | Keisha Miller" (14 October 2026, 44 minutes), and "September Sales Up 108.5%: What Changed at Our Pizzeria" (6 October 2026, 30 minutes).

How often does Pizza King Podcast: Empowering Pizzeria Leadership publish?

Pizza King Podcast: Empowering Pizzeria Leadership publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 42 minutes across 165 episodes.

How hard is it to get booked on Pizza King Podcast: Empowering Pizzeria Leadership?

Booking probability for Pizza King Podcast: Empowering Pizzeria Leadership is 35%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Pizza King Podcast: Empowering Pizzeria Leadership requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Pizza King Podcast: Empowering Pizzeria Leadership's contact route on record: verified email.

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Recent episodes

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  • Episode #165

    Why Paulie Gee Stepped Off the Make Line

    Oct 19, 202637 min

    Paulie Gee expected to spend his days making pizza. As his business developed, he realized other people could make the pies and his attention could help the shop in different ways. I sat down with Paulie on the Pizza...

  • Episode #164

    Stop Guessing Your Pizza Costs | Keisha Miller

    Oct 14, 202644 min

    Can you tell me what your best-selling pizza costs to make? Keisha Miller from Perfect Crust joins me to talk about cheese portions, team training, supplier relationships, and the customer experience after a pizza...

  • Episode #163

    September Sales Up 108.5%: What Changed at Our Pizzeria

    Oct 6, 202630 min

    September sales at Westshore Pizza Valrico reached $36,557, up 108.5% from last September. I share the rewards results, Facebook ads, direct mail plan, box toppers, QR stickers, catering, and operational changes behind...

  • Episode #162

    Conveyor Oven vs. Deck Oven: What Actually Works in a Pizzeria?

    Sep 29, 202621 min

    Someone told me EDGE is the oven for people who cannot make real pizza. I spent nearly 23 years working with deck ovens. Today, my pizzeria runs every pizza through an EDGE conveyor oven. That gives me a clear view of...

  • Episode #161

    You Can't Live in Your Shop Forever | Kevin Abbott

    Sep 22, 202641 min

    Kevin Abbott and his wife Allison own Stoner’s Pizza Joint directly across the street from my shop in Valrico, Florida. On paper, we compete. In real life, we help each other. Kevin shares why he left another industry...

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  • Episode #160

    Takeout Tips: We Set A Record, Then Lost A Whole Day

    Sep 17, 202615 min

    Last week Tyrell came on and said the shop had its best month, up around 75 percent in sales. Three days later the phones died for the rest of the day. This Takeout Tips is about the number you are actually comparing...

  • Episode #159

    How a Small-Town Pizzeria Beats the Big Chains | Aaron Keaser

    Sep 15, 20261h 14m

    Aaron Keaser runs Teaford's Pizza & Subs in Greenville, Ohio, a town of about 13,000 people packed with national chains and local competition. He refuses to compete on price. Aaron joins Tyrell to explain how quality...

  • Episode #158

    The Systems Behind a 76% Sales Increase | Takeout Tips

    Sep 3, 202625 min

    August should have been one of our slowest months. Instead, our Westshore Pizza location finished at $42,143 in sales, up 76.22% from last year and ahead of every month we have on record for the store. That result did...

  • Episode #157

    Florida Pizza Is Better Than You Think

    Sep 1, 202649 min

    Jeff Berman has visited more than 500 pizzerias across the country. During one New York trip, he reached 53 shops and tried 70 slices in four and a half days. Jeff is the founder of Pizza Lovers of Florida, a Facebook...

  • Episode #156

    The 14-Week Pizzeria Operators Playbook

    Aug 19, 202620 min

    Most struggling pizzerias do not need more ideas. They need a clear order of operations. In Episode 156 of the Pizza King Podcast, Tyrell Reed breaks down the 14-week Pizzeria Operators Playbook he used to bring...

  • Episode #155

    Small Team, High Standards with Chef Peter Garces

    Aug 18, 20261h 9m

    A great pizzeria needs more than a strong recipe. Chef Peter Garces built By The Chef Pizza around premium ingredients, skilled people, simple systems, and hands-on leadership. In this conversation, Peter shares his...

  • Episode #154

    The Pizzeria Advice Nobody Wants to Hear: Just Do It

    Aug 13, 202620 min

    Four years ago Tyrell picked up "Podcasting for Dummies" in a bookstore and never bought it — because you learn more from doing than from reading about it. In this Takeout Tips Thursday, he makes the operator's case for...

  • Episode #153

    From Merrill Lynch to Best Pizza in Chicago | Sal Guagliardo, Pizza Protector

    Aug 11, 202650 min

    Sal Guagliardo ran from the family pizza business, became a Merrill Lynch investment banker, then couldn't stay away — and a month after buying a little Chicago shop, the Chicago Tribune named it a top-3 pizza in the...

  • Episode #152

    Japanese Dough Science, Hater Comments & $30 Pizzas

    Jul 28, 20261h 13m

    Two of the most respected names in the pizza world sit down with Pizza King for a no-filter conversation. Uncle Rico brings the Florida-style, 26-years-behind-the-counter perspective; Vito brings Michelin training...

  • Episode #151

    The Kid Takes Over the Pizza King Podcast | Takeout Tips

    Jul 23, 202612 min

    This week's Takeout Tips got a special guest host — my son Dallas Reed grabbed the mic and turned the tables on the Pizza King. What starts as a hard-hitting debate (sausage vs. broccoli) turns into a surprisingly real...

  • Episode #150

    How the Right Oven Solves Your Labor Problem | George Clark, Edge Ovens

    Jul 21, 202656 min

    New episode this week on the Pizza King Podcast. George Clark drives the Edge Ovens test truck across the country — Maine to Miami, Seattle to San Diego — baking real pizza in real shops to prove one thing: a conveyor...

  • Episode #148

    The Direct Mail Playbook Every Pizzeria Owner Needs to Hear

    Jul 14, 202648 min

    I sat down with Kevin Slaughter, owner of Mailwise Solutions, a direct mail and print company that has been serving pizzeria operators across the country for almost nineteen years. Kevin started at Mailwise in college...

  • Episode #147

    33 Years in the Pizza Game: How Gary Wilson Built a Legendary Shop on Service and Community

    Jul 3, 202638 min

    Edge will bring their oven to you! Learn more at Edgeovens.com/Test-bake Gary Wilson has been running Wilson's Pizza and Grill in Kansas City, Kansas since 1993, and what he's built there — through flyers, radio...

  • Episode #146

    How Odie O'Connor Runs Two Pizza Shops From Two States | Pizza King Podcast

    Jun 23, 202651 min

    I sat down with Odie O'Connor, co-founder of Boxcar Pizza in Portland and Odie's Pizza Co. in Oceanside, California. Odie shares how he went from making vegan pizzas in his backyard to running two sourdough pizza shops...

  • Episode #145

    What Reps, Relationships, and One Book Did for Eddie Stalewski | Pizza King Podcast

    Jun 2, 20261 hourS0

    <p>I talked to Eddie Stalewski — @eddiespizza412 — about going from the Pizza Bible in 2013 to standing on the main stage at Pizza Expo as a World Pizza Champion, and every connection, competition, and late Saturday...

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Jake Johnson

Brand & product marketing, Johnson Consulting Group

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Aaron Keaser

Teaford's Pizza & Subs

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Jeff Berman

Pizza Lovers of Florida

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Peter Garces

By The Chef Pizza

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