thanks Pete - i'll try and watch it too but if you get to it before i do - would love to know what kind of info is in it.
foodiebuddha,
Last night, I viewed the entire video featuring Maggie Mieles of DiFara's.
By way of background, Maggie is the middle child of seven DeMarco children (boys and girls). She has been involved since childhood in the DiFara business. Dom DeMarco is now 84 years old and apparently spends little time in the store these days. So, it appears that Maggie is now in charge of the business, which now includes a few pizzerias and a ghost kitchen. DiFara's also struck a deal with Goldbelly to ship frozen pizzas across the country.
In the video, Maggie discusses how they are coping with the Covid pandema and trying to find workers for their operations, which apparently has been a challenge. All of their stores are currently limited to pick-up and delivery.
There is not much in the video in the way of discussion of the DiFara pizzas
per se or how they are made. However, Maggie said that they continue to use the same recipes and related ingredients at all locations and to continue to do so even if the prices of those ingredients increase. The way that they assemble the pizzas will remain the same. One material change that she did mention was with respect to the frozen pizzas. Instead of shipping an 18-inch pizza, the amount of dough was adjusted to make two 12-inch pizza. I believe that I heard Maggie say that they cut the two pizzas in half to facilitate shipping. The two pizzas are the minimum shipping order.
I personally enjoyed the video but there is not much in it for people looking for secrets or even basic information about the pizzas themselves.
Peter