Steve Green, Publisher

What is The Pizza Hall of Fame?

It was always a dream of PMQ's to produce the Pizza Hall of Fame and create a place to showcase legendary pizzerias and those who have made this industry so loved. Several years ago, Steve Green and former PMQ editor-in-chief Tom Boyles decided that with so many great pizzerias out there, the best way to honor and applaud them and their operators would be to identify and induct them into the Pizza Hall of Fame.

The first inductee was Lombardi's Pizza, located at 32 Spring Street in New York City in 2005. The reason this location was chosen was it was the first pizzeria to open in the United States and 2005 was the 100th anniversary of their opening. New inductees are presented with a plaque commemorating them. We salute these businesses and business people for their passion and contributions to this industry and congratulate them for being leaders in their field.
PMQ Pizza Magazine was first published in 1997 by Steve Green as a trade publication serving the pizza industry. Steve has built, owned and operated pizza stores in California, New York and Mississippi. He consults with many of the nation's top pizza operators and vendors and has toured thousands of pizza stores worldwide during the last 20 years. Steve was one of the original founders of Cyberslice, which was the first national Web service to sell pizza online. Cyberslice went on to become food.com.

Steve was the president and creator of Pizza Smarts (Green Mail) computer marketing system, which helped pizza operators use their computers and databases to sell more pizza. He has also been a pizza store manager, multi-store Domino's Pizza franchisee, marketing director, marketing consultant and advertising executive. As the former marketing director for the largest Domino's Pizza franchisee, he was responsible for setting the national Domino's Pizza grand opening sales record at $37,000 first week sales. This was only one of the new and innovative store marketing plans he designed and executed, which were adopted by and became part of Domino's renowned marketing savvy of the 1980s.

Since then, PMQ has grown to be the world's largest pizza magazine with a worldwide circulation of more than 50,000. PMQ publishes U.S., Canadian, Chinese and Australian/New Zealand editions, in addition to producing the Orlando and New York Pizza Shows each September and March respectively. The company’s website, PMQ.com is the official website of the pizza industry.