Saturday, August 13th, 2011, GoreMade Pizza was invited to be the "food vendor" for a mock-festival party at Hockenhaus. From 7-9 pm, I made pizza in Brian's lovely kitchen. By the way, his kitchen totally kicks ass! I made a total of 8 pizzas over the two hour happy hour. We were trying to figure out how to handle the monetary situation so that brian and I weren't footing the bill for 60 or so people to eat pizza. Brian suggested having a tip jar out for everyone to pay what they want. I was interested in how it would turn out, so we tried it.
It turns out that I got almost exactly what the ingredients cost me, which was awesome. I got to spread the GoreMade name around, got some really positive feedback from practically everyone who tried it out, and I got to step up my production, making more dough at one time that had ever previously been attempted. All of which encourage growth and a better understanding of the goals I am striving for! Howdy All! For those who don't know me, My name is Nick Gore and I currently work for Corporate America. A few years ago, I got the idea to start making pizza at home. It was more just a "see if I can pull it off" kinda thing. This started what would eventually become Pizza Sunday at the Gore household. After a few years of doing the pizza thing, I came to the realization that I actually liked making good food and serving it to good people more than making weekly advertisements that end up piled on your porch every week. This was essentially the start of GoreMade Pizza. Many people have helped me find the path to pizzaiolo, but the joy and satisfaction of making good pizza for good folks is at the heart of it all!
These interweb pages are here to document my journey from corporate peon to glorified pizza restauranteur, with the help of long-time friend Max Hessman, who is currently the general manager of Pizzaria Paradiso in our nation's capitol. We haven't got a place picked out, though Columbus, OH, and more specifically Clintonville, is the area in which the search will be contained. There's something about the folks of Clintonville that I can't help but want to be a part of. The scheduled opening date for GoreMade Pizza is March 3rd, 2013, so there's still a lot of time before it starts getting crazy. In the mean time, I'll be all over the place getting the word out about our delicious pizza and educating myself on how to make it all come together. And of course, I'll do my best to document the journey in this here blog! Here's to a long and challenging road ahead! |
AuthorNick Gore was a corporate peon by day who just made the leap to full time pizza geek. Follow his path to world class Pizzaiolo right here on the GoreMade Pizza blog. Archives
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