How a Pizza Restaurant Curates Toppings for Maximum Flavor
Walk into a well-run pizza restaurant during prep and you can tell, almost immediately, whether toppings are treated like decoration or like ingredients with a job to do. The difference shows up long before a pie reaches the oven. It is there in the way mushrooms are sliced to control moisture, in how sausage is seasoned to stand up to tomato acidity, in whether basil is added before or after the bake, and in how a team talks about balance rather than abundance.