He'd need to make 50 pizzas per day for 50 years to reach 1,000,000 - He said "easily" so what he's at 70 per day? Thats one every 6 minutes or so, 10 hours a day for 50 years - Nope.
@@nuck- probably pyramid scheme math. It's his pizzas plus everyone under him. He is the owner so that would make sense. "He" as in "his restaurant" I think. Now that I think about it
@@GoldStorage-uv6le not sure if this is a joke but pizza is the most popular food in the world for good reason, quick, cheap, simple, completely customizable
As a person whose currently involved in the project management of a larger pizza franchise that's branching out this year into Brooklyn (and other residential areas on the greater New York metropolitan area) - I do agree that the family businesses have certainly their place in the city. But I certainly find a lot of value in bringing more work opportunities for people by instilling a larger chain of restaurants into various parts of the city also! We have currently acquired real estate contracts in various parts of the city for 14 restaurants - and seeing the current trend in the restaurant market, our number will likely keep growing. New York is certainly a pizza lovers town, and we are proud in bringing a great and unforgettable pizza experience for people to enjoy!
Hey corporate drone how are you bringing in “more work opportunities” if your franchise is buying up all the real estate contracts? That just means more workers for your company. It doesn’t actually increase someone’s chance of finding work. It decreases it. Because the more real estate your franchise acquires the less there will be for other companies including the small family businesses. Meaning less places to find work. You say family business has their place in the city. Would that place happen to be under your thumb? Corporations are a disease and a deadly one at that.
I was at Luigi's 50th Anniversary celebration this past Sunday. His pizza is over the top great. Gio looks like an athlete lately. How he slimmed down with all that delicious pizza, no one knows. Keep going Brother. Many thanks to Joe M. for introducing me to Gio, Joe's friend from schooldays.
He's such a nice guy. Whenever I'm working a route in Parkslope I try to grab a couple of slices. Great and affordable pizza I love that he never jacked the price up even though his pizza is worthy of it.
I love how Dave Portnoy’s reviews can change the lives of the owners. Massive respect to both the pizza maker and Dave for putting people on🤲🏼💪🏼 one bite everyone knows the rules💯
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I could cry, Luigi’s is the best slice I’ve ever had. So thin and so flavorful, Gio was in there slinging pies like it was nothing. Cash register from 1942
I was skeptical about the million pizzas title on this, so I did the math even before watching it. I thought 50 pies a day was pretty good for a busy pizza shop and that rate it would take 50 years to make a million. I didn't think the guy even looked 50 so I thought definitely no way. But then yeah he opened his shop exactly 50 years ago and has been making pies since he was 11 so the math is on his side, and time and a pizza diet too since he doesn't look a day over 49. I'm thinking I should eat more pizza.
50 pies a day would be a very slow shop. The shop I used to work at would do about 250 orders on a friday, each order would be at least one pie, often orders would be 3 or 4 or sometimes you would get a big order in the morning for 8-20 pizzas, figure out the average of that over 250 orders, and that's just standard box pies that doesn't include the house pies you make for the showcase and the square pies you proof for hours every day. I'm in Florida, a shop like this in NY could expect to be busier than that.
@@absoluteabsence5973 From what we see here they have one make station, which means he's the only one making pies. The numbers I listed were what I would make myself.
@@AI-mg3hy I haven't been making pizzas as many years as him so maybe I haven't hit 1 million yet but he definitely has. I've definitely done hundreds of thousands.
Did you make 70 pizzas a day for 40 years, 12 months a year, 30 days a month with no days off? No you didn’t. I don’t understand why one would lie about this. Nonsense. Nobody would lie about this. I actually did the math and this guy probably made quite some more. Crazy stuff.
I did the math. This man hasn't even made half a million pizzas in the time he's been alive and that's being generous with the amount he could reasonably make. Edit the video title to reflect the truth and I will remove my dislike but until then nosirree uh uh.
My family and I traveled from Texas to try Luigi's, and their fresh mozzarella slice is one of the best things I've ever had in my life. It was so good we ordered a third slice to go, and shook his hand on the way out.
1 million pies over 40 years is 25000 per year. A little over 68 per day. That’s every day with no days off. nobody can make a million pies in a lifetime unless they worked for over 80 years with almost no time off and not dying
this is exactly who you want telling you where to get food in you're borough, this dude is happier when others are. i bet this place is somewhere that people not only travel over an hour for, but also one that see's hundred's of regulars every other day.
let's assume he makes 1 pizza every minute that means it would take 694 days if he worked 24/7 ofc he's not. maybe working 8 hours a day so 2082 days which is 5.7 years. so yes more than reasonable
I'm not sure how "easily" that million figure comes. If he's been working for 40 years (which is a lot), working 300 days a year (which is a lot), then he would personally have to average 84 pizzas a day (which seems like a lot).
I tried doing the math because I didn't buy the 1 000 000 pizzas thing but I think it checks out: If they make 200 pizzas a day (let's say they're open 12hrs a day), that's 16 pizzas an hour or a pizza around every 4 minutes - probably an overestimation but still correct within the same order of magnitude. If they are open 360 days a year (I'll exclude Christmas and/or health and safety inspection days, etc), that's 72 000 pies in a year (!). So according to these calculations, it only took them 15 years to reach a million pizzas! As I mentioned, the 200 pizzas a day thing is probably exaggerated, but even if it was 100 pizzas/day, that's still more than feasible in 30 years, which fits the story very easily!
1973 - 2023 50/yrs 50 x 365 days 18250 days 1,000,000 pies / 18250 days 55 pies a day 10 hour days 5 and half pies an hour. Generally, a double stack can bake 40 pies an hour. Yeah, the math works even by a factor of 10.
What a great guy. He owns his pizzeria mortgage free, complete freehold, could sell his place for millions in Brooklyn…but maintains a $2.50 price per slice to do what he loves and to help his community.
I need to visit New York and try OG style pizza man, I’ve had Chicago Deep dish to Saint Louis style. But never the real deal yet. Gotta go soon to visit
@@user-wo7dl6tb2q true true, not gunna argue that. Italy is my next out of country travel for that reason plus the pasta and also I wana try a true croissant(from France)But sadly funds atm make my travel within the states only for now.
1,000,000 pizzas? I’m not doubting this guy knows his way around a pizza but the math just doesn’t support that. That would be just over 53 pizzas every single day since the day they opened.
Damn, y'all really just made a short re-run clip from a video you released 6 years ago? Y'all really don't wanna continue with The Pizza Show, huh? Wack...
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I walked in to Luigi’s and ordered a pie because that’s what I do lol no slices and I’m fit not fat 😅. I looked at Gio and he gave me a look like 😏 “what’s up guy” I noded and said how ya doooooin and walked out munchin on that gaaaaas pizza! Love it and I work near by 😭
A million pizzas seems like a lot - that’s a little over 90 pizzas a day, every day, for 30 years. It’s possible if that’s literally all he does at work and nothing else, e.g. no prep, paperwork, dishes, management, and so on.
You guys killed your channel for the second time by not giving Frank the chance to do a world pizza tour. It actually hurts my soul that Frank hasnt been all around the globe checking out all the different pizza in different countries.
honestly the luigi hype on the internet is kind of annoying. ive lived in the neighborhood for 10 years and it was always the best pizza in all of south slope, and part of what made it great was the sleepy vibes. it just never got busy and people around just knew it was the best place for a slice. thats it. but ever since dave portnoy gave a big review, everyone and their mother is making it seem like they ALWAYS went to luigis and grew up going to it and that its some legendary spot. its not legendary -- its just really tried and true. people just wanna jump on the hype of and old school place and beef it up as they try to write themselves into it.
A million doesn't seem like a lot today but after doing the math, there's no way this guy has made 1,000,000 pizzas in his lifetime , still think his pizza looks fuckin delicious
He'd need to make 50 pizzas per day for 50 years to reach 1,000,000 - He said "easily" so what he's at 70 per day? Thats one every 6 minutes or so, 10 hours a day for 50 years - Nope.
"people say the were the worst of times; but really they were the best, but really in two years..." glad it worked out for y'all but cut the b.s it wasn't equal opportunities for everyone back then.
