After a sequence of COVID-19 induced cancellations and postponements, Worldwide Pizza Expo lastly made its triumphant return to Las Vegas in August 2021. Keen attendees and exhibitors alike poured into the town’s Conference Middle to have a good time and elevate the trade after a protracted absence that left many lacking the world’s most prestigious pizza occasion.
“With the ability to have Pizza Expo once more, after such an extended layoff, was merely superb” says Jeremy White, who helps put collectively the seminars, demonstrations and workshops for the present. “It was an extended, and infrequently harrowing, 29 months between exhibits. That span was crammed with anxiousness and heartbreak all too usually because the pandemic gripped our nation and compelled Pizza Expo — in addition to just about each different reside occasion from live shows to county gala’s — into momentary exile.”
Present Director Invoice Oakley says suggestions from exhibitors was constructive, signaling a presence of attendees trying to conduct critical enterprise on the present flooring.
“Many exhibitors had extra certified leads than in 2019, and that’s as a result of these attendees who had been in a position to journey to Las Vegas had been actually excited to be there,” says Oakley. “After not staging a present in 2020 and coping with the consequences of the pandemic and the labor scarcity, pizzeria operators didn’t simply need to do enterprise on the present flooring — they wanted to do enterprise on the present flooring.”
Seeing hundreds of trade professionals come collectively once more was a particular spotlight of 2021. And it serves as an indication of higher issues to return, says White.
“With such an engaged and energetic viewers, it felt like there was an actual buzz at occasions inside the Expo, such because the Worldwide Pizza Problem or the World Pizza Video games finals and our block occasion,” he says. “Pizzeria house owners had been genuinely completely happy to be collectively once more, conducting enterprise, swapping tales, sharing experiences and merely relishing the second that was 29 months within the making.”
For a listing of competitors winners, go to PizzaToday.com. For many who needed to miss this yr’s occasion, a number of the academic seminars will probably be out there all through the autumn on PizzaExpo365.com. Lastly, for extra data on the upcoming Pizza Expo that’s proper across the nook — March 22-24, 2022 — go to PizzaExpo.com.
After a sequence of COVID-19 induced cancellations and postponements, Worldwide Pizza Expo lastly made its triumphant return to Las Vegas in August 2021. Keen attendees and exhibitors alike poured into the town’s Conference Middle to have a good time and elevate the trade after a protracted absence that left many lacking the world’s most prestigious pizza occasion.
“With the ability to have Pizza Expo once more, after such an extended layoff, was merely superb” says Jeremy White, who helps put collectively the seminars, demonstrations and workshops for the present. “It was an extended, and infrequently harrowing, 29 months between exhibits. That span was crammed with anxiousness and heartbreak all too usually because the pandemic gripped our nation and compelled Pizza Expo — in addition to just about each different reside occasion from live shows to county gala’s — into momentary exile.”
Present Director Invoice Oakley says suggestions from exhibitors was constructive, signaling a presence of attendees trying to conduct critical enterprise on the present flooring.
“Many exhibitors had extra certified leads than in 2019, and that’s as a result of these attendees who had been in a position to journey to Las Vegas had been actually excited to be there,” says Oakley. “After not staging a present in 2020 and coping with the consequences of the pandemic and the labor scarcity, pizzeria operators didn’t simply need to do enterprise on the present flooring — they wanted to do enterprise on the present flooring.”
Seeing hundreds of trade professionals come collectively once more was a particular spotlight of 2021. And it serves as an indication of higher issues to return, says White.
“With such an engaged and energetic viewers, it felt like there was an actual buzz at occasions inside the Expo, such because the Worldwide Pizza Problem or the World Pizza Video games finals and our block occasion,” he says. “Pizzeria house owners had been genuinely completely happy to be collectively once more, conducting enterprise, swapping tales, sharing experiences and merely relishing the second that was 29 months within the making.”
For a listing of competitors winners, go to PizzaToday.com. For many who needed to miss this yr’s occasion, a number of the academic seminars will probably be out there all through the autumn on PizzaExpo365.com. Lastly, for extra data on the upcoming Pizza Expo that’s proper across the nook — March 22-24, 2022 — go to PizzaExpo.com.
