While the rest of the country is tightening its belt, Anthony Bruno is piling on the cheese.
In the last three years, the owner of Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza has expanded his pizzerias from eight in South Florida to a big slice of the Northeast that includes New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware. Anthony’s now totals 25. And he’s not stopping: Bruno plans on continuing to grow in Florida and the Northeast and this year successfully squashed a competing pizzeria in Manalapan that copied his signature dishes.
Asked about his success, Bruno, who opened his first restaurant on Federal Highway in Fort Lauderdale in 2002, quipped, “We don’t sleep. That’s the first thing.”