[编者按] 这是本刊记者Jack Wynberg初次出征所写的采访稿。作为Seneca学院的退休教授，他的文笔与风格更看重用词与造句，对于所谈话题他尽可能用最原始但最优雅的辞藻来描绘。估计当读者欣赏本文时，绝对不觉得这是一篇采访稿，而是一篇小散文。当然，主题还是相当突出的，那就是Pizza Nova是非常特别的，比你想象还要好。Anyway，希望大家喜欢。
“When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie. That’s Amore”
Last week I interviewed him at one of his Pizza Nova locations, to ask him about his business, and the introduction of his new pepperoni that is made from beef and pork “that is raised without hormones or anti-biotics” pepperoni. He says Pizza Nova is the only pizza chain in Canada, so far, to use pepperoni that contains no hormones and no anti-biotics. He says he’s always on the look-out for improvements that make his pizza taste good and that are also good for you. He says “Healthy can taste good”.
Pizza Nova has always been a family business, that started in 1963. Their tomato sauce is made from tomatoes that are packed within 6 hours of being picked. They say that this freshness improves the product and is one of the reasons why their slogan is: “Taste the Difference.”
Domenic hasn’t forgotten the days when he was growing up in the business where, as a kid, he did menial jobs, like washing dishes. Today, he’s a hands-on executive, who hasn’t forgotten where he came from. He was featured in an episode of “Undercover Boss”, where he was “hired” as an employee in one of his stores. He said he loved returning back to basics, to the days where he started, at the bottom.
He strongly believes in giving back to the community, through his many philanthropic activities. One of the projects that he’s most proud of is his annual “That’s Amore Pizza for Kids” event for Variety Village, for which he’s raised over 1.2 million dollars over the past 15 years.
For Domenic Primucci, he can say of his business: “That’s Amore!”.
