THE ACCLAIMED CHAIN IS TAKING AIM AT 100 LOCATIONS.

Wayne Jones visited 38 Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza locations before signing on as chief executive in 2017, succeeding founder Anthony Bruno. Each stop tugged at his roots.

Jones grew up in California, with little money, and got into restaurants so he could eat. And there was a local pizza place where the owner would put pies in the oven and take them out a little burnt. Well charred, you could say. It was the foldable, thin, but not soggy pizza purists search for.

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