There's no dining room and never has been; it's a call-ahead, order-by-phone, pick-it-up operation, which keeps the overhead low and the focus entirely on the pizza itself. The original sits right on the Berwyn/Stickney border -- different sources place the exact address in one town or the other, which says more about how blurry that boundary is at Pershing Road than about the restaurant itself -- and the family has since opened sister locations in Lockport, Illinois, Chesterton, Indiana, and New Buffalo, Michigan.
The Italian sausage topping is consistently the most-recommended order among regulars, a straightforward, no-frills choice that matches the restaurant's whole approach: keep doing the one thing well instead of chasing trends. Seventy years of carryout-only operation in the same corner of the Chicago area is its own kind of credential.
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