World Champion Siler Chapman Tells Us How He Did It

         We’ve got a number of great interviews lined up and will be posting often. As always, these will be as much about the quest as they are about the pizza. As a reminder, please write to me at Peter@pizzaquest.com if any of you would like to come on our show to discuss your own quest, whether in pizza or anything adjacent (or, as we say, “the celebration of artisanship wherever we find it”). This year I’d like to get more of our listeners’ voices into these conversations, so stay tuned for new episodes on all sorts of interesting topics.  For this week, and to get the new season off and running, we welcome back Siler Chapman (now World Champion anew) who recently returned from winning the Caputo Cup in Naples.

      Siler Chapman, owner of King of Fire Pizza in Charlotte, NC, was already a world champion long before he went to Naples this year but, he first earned that title back when he was a 20-something kid obsessed with acrobatic dough tossing and showmanship as part of the US Pizza Champions Team. Now, twenty-two years later, he’s a serious business operator and a mentor to a new generation of up and comers, and he wants to be known for his pizzas and not just his acrobatic skills. Hear all about how he added a new gold medal to his trophy case at this year’s Caputo Cup Championship, and how he’s teaching new operators the secrets for running a successful pizza business via the Perfecting Pizza training program that he and Tony Gemignani and other fellow mentors have created.