Courtesy of Post Pizza & More
By Rod Bacon
Three business associates have parleyed their experience in the hospitality industry into a new venture serving a variety of comfort foods.
Kevin Joyce, Jimmy Murphy and Erika Fass opened The Post Pizza & More in Middle Grove over Memorial Day weekend. It is located in the United States Post Office building in an area that once housed The Post Cafe. Joyce has owned the building for years, and when the cafe closed the pizza parlor was born.
Prior to opening the pizza parlor, Joyce owned Tinny’s on Lake Desolation for 10 years, with Fass serving as general manager. Murphy has extensive experience creating unique pizza dishes and was brought into the business as the pizza chef.
While the search is on to expand their staff, the partners currently do the majority of the work.
“Everything is made here,” said Murphy. “We make the dough here. We make the sauce here.”
The menu includes breakfast sandwiches, slices of pizza, a 16-inch pizza, a 12-inch cauliflower pizza, a pepperoni roll and a Caesar salad.
They are experimenting with rotating offerings such as a hamburger special and quesadillas.
“We are looking at what’s going to take off and offer them weekly or perhaps seasonally,” said Murphy. “The most popular ones we will probably add to the menu.”
“As our staff grows we want the menu to grow, but we also want to keep things simple and provide quality ingredients,” said Fass. “We just added Endico Foods to our list of vendors and we’ll be getting Grande cheese, one of the highest quality cheeses for pizza, from them.”
Fass noted that in the future, daily specials such as grab-and-goes for family night might become an integral part of their offerings.
The restaurant seats 16 people inside with a few seats available outside.
“People are very excited that we’re here,” said Fass. “They’re glad to see that there’s someone in the building and they’ve also been saying that the pizza is really excellent. Jimmy is doing a great job with the recipes and we’ve been getting rave reviews.”
She noted that the Town of Greenfield has been instrumental in promoting the business. They participated in the town’s farmers’ market and they will be selling pizza at the youth soccer league at the town park on Wednesdays throughout the season.
The Post Pizza & More is located at 3 Lake Desolation Road in Middle Grove. Business hours are 8:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m., Wednesday through Saturday. For more information visit postpizzaandmore.com.