Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Jason Phillips. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Hi Jason, thanks for joining us today. Do you have a hero? What have you learned from them?

My father. He always did what he thought was right despite what others thought and followed the beat of his own drum while doing what was necessary to raise us. We had alot of hard time financially growing up but as kids we never really knew about it because he did whatever it took to keep the roof over our head and never needing anything. He used to have a saying he would tell me ” don’t blame the dynamite if you can’t light the fuse and dont blame the shoes if you cant dance” and as cliche as they sound that’s always stuck and meant so much to me through out my life. Always reminding me to take responsibility for everything in my life. I’m not sure how well he communicated with my sister but he always took time to speak with me and to teach me how to be a man in this world. Most kids growing up wanted to be a cop or a fire fighter but all I ever wanted to be was to be a father Like him. I miss him everyday.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

I’ve always had many interest and jump on any opportunity to learn about them when I could. When I can do something I’m interested I tend to become very good at it as I become consumed with what I’m doing. Though I become very good at these things I’ve never really have been great at anything and when I dove into making pizzas and all that encompasses it I do feel I’m great at it and take great pride in it and to feel that way about something really does alot for your soul. I also take great pride in my wife for putting up with all of my shenanigans over the years especially the dirty kitchen over the last couple of them. Luckily, i do feel she might think having pizza whenever she wants is a halfway decent trade off. I started off delivering pizza for extra cash during covid and had the opportunity to learn how to make pizza thanks to the owner of where I worked and who I can call a friend Anthony Pacitto. He was actually taken back after my second pie at how natural it came to me and it just became apart of me after that. I would practice for at least 2 hours after work making dough at home trying to perfect my own dough. When I came home from Iraq years before I dabbled a little with wild fermentation/sourdough and because of that and Anthony’s leaning towards that way as well with his pizzaria I was able to incorporate it in everything I’m making. It just makes everything thing better and judging by my customers I’d say they 100% agree. So thats all I do now. There is no yeast to be found in my place. The feed back from customers has been amazing they love the sourdough pizza and what I am capable of creating on that canvas.

What do you think helped you build your reputation within your market?

Actually loving what I’m doing. I belive the customers can see and taste how much I actually enjoy doing this. And the 2nd thing I’d say is never being satisfying with “good enough” I try to make everything as perfectly as I can no matter how small it may seem to most and that alone really pushes everything over the top.

Any advice for growing your clientele? What’s been most effective for you?

Just trying to put myself out there as much as possible and trying to get to know everyone on a semi personal level , actually listening to whatever they are talking to me about. Having an actual interest in them as a person and hopefully build a friendly as well as professional relationship with them.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: @The_mozz_pit
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