When Dorris Shober and her then-husband returned to Chattanooga after living in Atlanta for several years, they found themselves having pizza problems.
“We used to go to a little pizza place there called Fellini’s,” she says. “We’d sit and talk about opening a restaurant ourselves because we recognized a need. There were no local pizza places. You couldn’t go anywhere to get a slice and a soda or a beer.
“So we decided to try it. Our parents thought we’d lost our minds.”
And so, back in 1995, working out of their home kitchen in Lookout Mountain, Georgia, they borrowed a KitchenAid mixer, found a book on how to start a pizza business, and got to work.