Pizza Quest: Shannon Mangini — Things Can Happen Fast
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Sometimes it just takes moxie. Shannon Mangini (aka @ThePizzaiola on Instagram) is living proof of that. In just a few short years since graduating from college in 2018 with a degree in economics, entrepreneurship, and finance (Univ. of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, where she was also a lacrosse star) Shannon has, among other things, brought DiFara Pizza to the North Fork of Long Island and staged numerous pop-ups during the Covid years, been interviewed on Women in Pizza, and, most recently, been serving as Senior Director of Brands and Partnerships for the OTG Management Group, which owns and operates food concessions in airports around the country. We discuss all of this, how it happened so quickly, and what’s next for this dynamic rising star, in this week’s episode of Pizza Quest with Peter Reinhart.
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