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Fast & Tasty! Wood Fired Pizza: Downtown Santa Rosa! by Rachel Damerjian All of their ingredients are fresh


Santa Rosa, CA. ~ Santa Rosa lo- cal, Nick Ulrich, has worked every job in the restaurant, bar, and night club industries from a busser to the director of operations. In Decem- ber of 2014, Nick took on his next role as, “Restaurant Owner” and he became a franchisee to Persona Wood-Fired Pizzeria. Today, Ul- rich runs the popular build-your- own format pizzeria with his two brothers, Kyle and Jordan.


Nick opened his Persona Pizzeria franchise because he fell in love with the quality of the product and the company. He said that, “Per- sona Pizza felt like a streamlined mom-and-pop


restaurant with


quality and love put into every pizza,”. Within the fi rst hundred days of being open, Persona Pizze- ria’s fi rst location in Santa Barbara became the city’s top-rated pizza restaurant on Yelp.


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The eatery allows diners to design their own pizza using any combi- nation of 30-plus Artisan toppings, and bakes the pizza in as little as 90 seconds in an authentic Italian “Marra For- ni” wood fi red oven. Persona Piz- zeria, co- founded by World Pizza Champion and certi- fi ed Italian pizzaiolo Glenn Cy- bulski, uniquely bridges


speed, qual- ity and val- ue-pricing, offering customers an excep- tional ex- perience at both lunch and dinner.


Pizzas are 12 inches in diameter and start at just $7.95. They recent- ly began offering delivery of their fresh, customized pizzas to their customers. Persona Santa Rosa’s delivery has become the fastest in the area with no extra delivery fee and they’re using their staff rather than a third-party to ensure quality.


and the sauces and meat options are made in the kitchen every day. Persona chooses to have ingredi- ents on their menu that are grown locally to ensure fresh-


ness and support local


farming. The


meat-


ball and sauce recipes have won


double gold


medals and their Chipotle Chicken specialty pizza won ‘Best


Pizza in North America’ at the world pizza championship. There’s something for everyone at Persona whether you’re an adult or kid it’s great to watch your pizza baked hot and fresh in as little as 90 seconds.


Photos by P.A.D. Find Persona here


Weird Facts & Fun Trivia - 3


Albondiga is Spanish for meatball, and also the name of a Spanish and Mexican dish of spicy meatballs, usu- ally cooked in tomato sauce.


California’s vineyards were less than 100,000 acres before Prohibition, and by the end of Prohibition had expanded to over 600,000 acres!


During Prohibition years when alcohol sales were banned by the 18th amend- ment to the U.S. Constitution (1920-1933) wine growers would put large labels on their grape juice that stated: ‘Warning: Will Ferment and turn into wine,’ and then proceeded to give detailed instructions of what NOT to do so the grape juice would not accidentally turn into wine!


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