From the start, Ah-Beetz wasn’t designed to be just another local pizzeria. Founder Nicholas Laudano, born and raised in New Haven, Connecticut, and a 40-year industry veteran, built the concept with national expansion in mind. By Tamara Rahoumi
Nashville Hot Chicken didn’t begin with a trend forecast or a flashy launch. It began with a simple test. In 2018, Co-founder and CEO Tigran Melkonyan and his brother, Sam, were running a pizzeria when they decided to slip samples of their Nashville-style chicken tenders into customer orders just to see what would happen. By Tamara Rahoumi