Hello friends and pizza lovers! We want to share a pizza our dream with you all! And I promise that is my only cheesy pizza joke. Ok, now I’m done, I swear!
Our Mission:
We are Leah and Jeremy, and we are a partnership in business and in life and we share a love for cooking and baking and bringing people together over a meal. Our mission is to bring you amazing pizza that you can feel good about eating!
We live in Charleston, SC with a food scene that is alive and thriving, but quality pizza is something that has been a slow comer to the scene.
We both grew up in the Northeast, Jeremy in New York City, and me in Boston (with a mother from the Bronx) where getting a slice or a pie was a daily or weekly occurrence. Getting a good quality slice was something we both missed while living here in Charleston. So we started doing research on what makes our favorite pizza so good, and testing things out in our kitchen. Trying out new foods and cooking has been staple in our relationship, and something we love doing together. What started as a hobby turned into a real passion that we couldn’t stop obsessing about!
Our Journey:
Anyone who knows Jeremy and me, knows that for the past few years we’ve eaten, breathed, and lived pizza. From doing as much R&D all over the country as we could ( our friends know that lunch with us means 3 stops at 3 different pizza places ), to spending nights cooking pizzas on the line at an Italian restaurant. We've spent months and months tweaking recipes and babying our sourdough starter, and cooking pizza after pizza in our home oven trying to perfect our style. We’ve been working our butts off to gain the skills and knowledge that goes into owning a pizza restaurant.
Our Passion:
In addition to having a love for pizza and cooking we have both been in the food and beverage industry for a combined 30 years in a variety of positions. We decided it’s time to take our restaurant experience, passion for pizza and joy of working together and turn it into a business! We are opening a mobile pizza food trailer called Rosalie’s. It is a melting pot of flavors over the backdrop of pizza.
Our Project:
In November 2018 we drove to Oklahoma to buy a pizza concession trailer. The trailer needed a fair amount of modifying, and as things go with starting any business, there have been many unexpected costs and repairs, aside from refitting to suit our needs. We have been doing all the designing, constructing and repairing ourselves and funding it all out of pocket. We took an initial small loan to help purchase the trailer but it wasn’t enough to cover anything after that.
Making Our Dream Happen Soon:
We are so thankful for all our friends and family and community who have been so excited and encouraging, and we wish we could send you all a pizza through the internet! We want more than anything to bring our pizza to the people and bring people together over our pizza. We are very close to finishing the trailer but there are a few more essentials we need, like a hood system and paying for prep equipment, and helping to start paying down the debt we have acquired in this process, so we can secure our future down this path. This money will truly make a HUGE difference in us being able to open as soon as possible.
This money will also help us embody our ethics in our business: recycling, composting, using organic food and sourcing locally. We strive to make a pizza you feel good about after eating. We chose to do all naturally leavened dough (even though it takes a lot more effort) because it is much easier to digest, and tastes amazing. We choose to use high quality ingredients so our pizza is real food that you don’t have to feel guilty for enjoying. It is also our goal to be part of our community, and give back by donating money to local causes. But it takes money to make money and we need some help getting there!
Any donation or social media share of this fundraiser means the world to us and we are so grateful for the people in our lives near and far who have been believing in us, helping us, teaching us and supporting us on this journey!
Our Thank You:
We truly appreciate everyone who supports us and would love to give you a token of that appreciation:
For Locals or anyone who wants to visit us:
For a donation of $20+ your first slice is on us!
For a donation of $50+ your first whole pizza is on us!
For a donation of $100+ you get a whole pizza supper on us (including a whole pizza, a salad, a sorbet and gelato, and 2 drinks)! OR a Rosalie's t-shirt (coming soon)!
For a donation of $500 or more you get a pizza named after you!
For a donation of $1000 get a pizza named after you and 25% of the proceeds from that pizza go to a charity of your choosing.
For non-locals:
For a donation of $20+ you will get a Rosalie’s sticker (coming soon)!
For a donation of $100+ you get a Rosalie’s t-shirt (coming soon)!
For a donation of $500 or more you get a pizza named after you!
For a donation of $1000 get a pizza named after you and 25% of the proceeds from that pizza go to a charity of your choosing.
