How to Make Money Selling Pizza in New York City
Odd Lots
Bloomberg
4.4 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Everybody knows that New York City has a ton of pizzerias. And yet, new ones are opening up all the time. Why do we need more? And how is there still money to be made? On this episode, we speak with Alex Xenopolous, Evan Xenopolous, and James Shields, three restaurant entrepreneurs that recently opened up Xeno's Pizza, a shop close to the Bloomberg offices in Manhattan. We talked about everything from location scouting, to the cost of ingredients, to oven technology, the state of New York City, and how any given establishment differentiates their brand in the hopes of making money by selling what on the surface looks like an abundant, commoditized market.
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| 1:25.6 | We are recording this July 8th and we've done back to back to back episodes and we haven't had time for lunch. |
| 1:34.3 | So I, too, am going to eat this bite of pizza. |
| 1:38.0 | It's really good. |
| 1:39.2 | We're eating really good pizza in this studio. |
| 1:41.3 | It's really good. |
| 1:42.4 | People are probably wondering what's going on, why we're |
| 1:45.9 | all right. One second, I'm going to swallow my food. But I swear we're not going to be sounding like |
| 1:51.0 | we're eating pizza the entire time. Maybe we'll- Speak for yourself. Okay. Tracy, a few months ago, |
| 1:56.5 | I noticed a new pizza restaurant had opened up in the East Village. And I thought to myself, what kind of person looks at the East Village and thinks, |
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