He brings his tricked out Weber Grill to different venues, making pizzas for his hungry and adoring fans. He doesn’t have a food truck and doesn’t really ever aspire to have one.
He considers himself “an outsider in the food universe” and ask him from one day to the next, he’ll tell you his future could include software, a pizza restaurant to call his own or some combination of both. It’s all part of the interesting story of Jeff Krupman, better known to many as the Pizza Hacker.
“I don’t want to go through the hassle of purchasing an official food truck, which will cost $50,000-60,000,” Krupman said. “It could be a great life, but I haven’t really run the numbers because it’s not what I’m really dying to do.”
And while his first love is still software, his pizza journey took an unexpected turn more than a decade ago. He visited Naples famed Antica Pizzeria Da Michele, what he called a “life-changing” experience. “I didn’t know I could be that happy, it was so good,” he said. The experience made Krupman want to replicate that pizza pie, something he is still trying to do; make the perfect pizza.
“I gauge my nights by how many people say this is the best pizza I ever had in my life,” he said. “That’s what I’m shooting for. That’s all there is for me. If someone gives me four stars on Yelp, it brings down my average and it’s disappointing.”
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