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[–] MercurysBall2 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago  (edited ago)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6467437/Pizza-Express-founder-Peter-Boizot-89-dead.html

Pizza Express founder Peter Boizot has passed away at his home in Peterborough. His sister Clementine Allen confirmed her brother and former Peterborough United Football Club owner, 89, had died. The entrepreneur opened his first Pizza Express in Soho in 1965 and has been widely credited for introducing pizza to the masses and revolutionising the casual-dining experience.

.. In 1969, Peter started PizzaExpress Jazz Club, with the likes of Ella Fitzgerald and Amy Winehouse starring there. Ever since, music has been at the heart of the dining experience ...Amy Winehouse celebrated her 26th birthday with dinner in Pizza Express in Marylebone in 2009

From 2014: Pizzagate: Student's delightful review of Pizza Express goes viral

Holly, 17, took her mum to share the 'Two for £10' deal and wrote about the 'wow' factor of their pizzas. We got in touch with Holly, who wrote the piece as part of her Journalism Diploma, to ask her what having her review go viral had been like.

Odd story and odd articles about Pizza Express:

https://www.stylist.co.uk/people/why-holly-astons-pizza-express-review-is-one-of-the-loveliest-things-weve-read/21287

We love the fact that when every other place is heaving on a rainy weekend lunch, Pizza Express will be always able to squeeze you in somewhere. And it’ll stay open after late-night cinema showings on a Sunday when everyone else has buggered off home. We love the fact that you can take noisy kids there and nobody bats an eyelid – they’ll even give you a colouring kit.

Nor does anyone raise an eyebrow if your drunken, crying relative disappears into the toilet for half an hour while you munch uncomfortably on bread sticks. But that’s another story.