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Honoring Women's Pizza Month with Delicious Tributes, Scholarships
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Honoring Women's Pizza Month with Delicious Tributes, Scholarships

When pizzaiolo and influencer Christy Alia created her popular Instagram account, @realcleverfood, most people assumed she was a man based on pizza pics alone. It was a disappointing start to her business — but one that also spurred a movement. Along with Alexandra Mortati, marketing director of Orlando Foods, Women In Pizza/Women’s Pizza Month was founded with the idea that pizza making is for everybody.

Pizza Expo Competition Preview: Jimmy Hank Pizza
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Pizza Expo Competition Preview: Jimmy Hank Pizza

Having competed at Pizza Expo, Jimmy Hank knows what to expect. His first Pizza Expo was in 2022, and it was the first one since the pandemic shutdown. Attendance was light due to international restrictions, but nothing can bring a pizza party down! Jimmy Hank shares with LloydPans his take on the growth of Pizza Expo since that year, and he opens up about why LloydPans is his pan of choice for this year’s Pizza Expo competitions.

Ask LloydPans: Questions from Instagram
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Ask LloydPans: Questions from Instagram

A few of our followers have some great questions for the LloydPans innovation team. They tackled your customer service and technical questions about LloydPans baking and pizza pans.

LloydPans Customers Make PETA’s Top 10 Vegan Pizzas
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LloydPans Customers Make PETA’s Top 10 Vegan Pizzas

Instead of bringing home the bacon, PETA’s Top 10 Vegan Pizzas in the U.S. list honors mouthwatering plant-based pies that showcase how delicious and easy eating pizza the vegan way can be.

Influencer Interview: Kara’s Bread
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Influencer Interview: Kara’s Bread

When Kara first started selling bread on Facebook, it was upon her husband’s encouragement. It was a hobby at first, starting with following other bakers on Instagram to learn more about bread making. She was working full time alongside baking bread, but the “hobby” took off in a way that surprised her. In June of 2019, with her daughter in tow, she and her husband started selling bread at farmers markets — and something struck a chord. 

Top 5 Best Selling LloydPans of the Year
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Top 5 Best Selling LloydPans of the Year

The results are in, and the LloydPans team has crowned the pizza pan winners of the year! The Detroit-Style 8x10x2.38-inch and 10x14x2.5-inch were the top two best sellers of 2023 for our Spokane Valley, Wash.-based team, followed closely by 2-, 14- and 16-inch Quik-Disks. We took a trip down 2023 memory lane to reflect on why our customers chose these pans as their favorites. 

Influencer Interview: Richard Payne of Dough and Behold
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Influencer Interview: Richard Payne of Dough and Behold

Richard Payne of Dough and Behold had been making pizzas for a year or two before he heard about LloydPans during the pandemic. He had just started @dough_and_behold, and through conversations with the pizzaiolo community, he found that LloydPans was a brand that received high recommendations. Payne spoke to us about the pizza and dough making process with LloydPans, geeking out on the industry and how he’s built a pop-up and collaboration business from across the pond. 

Influencer Interview: Ryan Mondragon of Sanctuary Pizza
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Influencer Interview: Ryan Mondragon of Sanctuary Pizza

Before the pandemic, Sanctuary Pizza Owner Ryan Mondragon was working for a pizza catering company, traveling for birthdays, weddings and parties. Once the pandemic happened, the company moved to Nashville, leaving Mondragon without a job like so many others. With the knowledge he had after 7 years at the previous company, he offered local COVID-friendly pizza pop ups out of his backyard and quickly realized that he was going to be in the full-time pizza business once again. He invested in trucks and a portable Ooni oven — all he needed was the perfect pizza pan.

LloydPans Celebrates National Cookie Day
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LloydPans Celebrates National Cookie Day

It’s cookie baking season, everybody! December 4 is National Cookie Day, and the LloydPans Innovation Team is celebrating with some of our holiday favorites. This year, bakers are ditching the boring ol’ frosted sugar cookies and trying something new and unusual. We turned to Simporter and its AI-powered platform to share more about the hottest cookie trends this National Cookie Day.

Winter Baking Trends
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Winter Baking Trends

As 2023 winds down, we look forward to seeing what our baking customers are doing in the world of trends this holiday season. The LloydPans Innovation Team turned to Puratos’ Taste Tomorrow research initiative for insight on what’s new in the baking world to help you get a leg up on the competition.

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