Letting go, learning, leading: Pizza execs look back at a harrowing year
It was a year of excruciating decisions, uncontrollable conditions and lots and lots of leaps -- if not catapult-rides -- of faith in the pizza business. Here, some of the pizza restaurant business's leaders go "on-the-record" about the toughest moments of 2020.
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The restaurant tragedies of the last year are written all over the nation's landscape in the darkened and boarded-up storefronts of what at last count was approximately 120,000 restaurants. Aside from the unestimated and still accruing toll these losses have incurred on business owners and employees, are the ripple effects of all the collateral damage to surrounding communities and the many patrons who depended on these places for a source of connection.