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About Famous Johnny's Pizza

Famous Johnny's Pizza provides pizza lovers with traditional authentic Italian Pizza at our new pizzeria in San Bruno, California. FJP's management has gone through extensive hands-on training at the best locations around the globe to bring you the very best flavor experience. This includes cities like Rome and Serra San Bruno Italy, Munich Germany, Las Vegas, New York, Chicago and of course Famous Johnny’s home base in the Greater Bay Area. The result is incredibly delicious pizza! Here at Famous Johnny's Pizza we celebrate famous Johnny's, Johns and Jons from music, film, TV, art, politics and beyond. Stop on by to see what the buzz is all about and help keep Famous Johnny's Pizza, famous!

Almost every American food is covered in the phone book under the generic heading “Restaurants.” Only pizza stands alone. Pizza, a Johnny-come-lately compared with such long-standing national favorites as the hamburger and hot dog, has secured a special place on the American table. Everybody likes pizza. Even those who claim to be immune to its charms must design to have the occasional slice; a staggering 93 percent of Americans eat pizza at least once a month. According to one study, each man, woman, and child consumes an average of 23 pounds of pie every year.

Modern pizza originated in Italy, although the style favored by Americans is more a friend than a relative of the traditional Neapolitan pie. Residents of Naples took the idea of using bread as a blank slate for relishes from the Greeks, whose bakers had been dressing their wares with oils, herbs, and cheese since the time of Plato. The Romans refined the recipe, developing a delicacy known as placenta, a sheet of fine flour topped with cheese and honey and flavored with bay leaves. Neapolitans earned the right to claim pizza as their own by inserting a tomato into the equation.

Cheese, the crowning ingredient, was not added until 1889, when the Royal Palace commissioned the Neapolitan pizzaiolo Raffaele Esposito to create a pizza in honor of the visiting Queen Margherita. Of the three contenders he created, the Queen strongly preferred a pie swathed in the colors of the Italian flag: red (tomato), green (basil), and white (mozzarella). Thus begins the story of pizza.