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The Foundation of Great Pizza: Why Quality Tomato Part 3 of What Makes a Great Pizza Great Sourcing Matters: by Prosciutto's Pizzeria @ Pub After nearly 20 years in the pizza business since opening our doors on November 1st, 2005, I've learned that great pizza isn't just about technique—it's about starting with the best possible ingredients. And when it comes to pizza, nothing is more fundamental than your sauce. Today, I want to share why we've built our entire sauce program around one trusted supplier: Stanislaus Food Products. The Sauce is Your Foundation Think of your pizza sauce as the foundation of a house. You can have the most beautiful toppings and the most perfectly crafted crust, but if your foundation is weak, the entire structure suffers. Your sauce sits between your crust and toppings, influencing every single bite. It needs to have the right acidity to complement your cheese, the right consistency to spread evenly, and the right flavor profile to enhance—not overpower—your other ingredients. The Problem with "Off the Shelf" Tomatoes Let's be honest about something: buying random tomatoes off the shelf and trying to make consistent sauce day after day, year after year, is a recipe for disaster. Those tomatoes are going to vary wildly. Where are they from? What was the weather like during the growing season? Tomato batch one might be from California, tomato batch two from Florida, and tomato batch three from Mexico. Each one probably came from a different state, different growing conditions, different harvesting times. You want to make consistent sauce with this many variables? It's impossible. Not to mention the price variations that change daily, or how long those tomatoes have been sitting in the supply chain before they even reach your restaurant. There are countless variables with no way to know or control them. The Solution: Premium Canned Tomatoes This brings us to the next logical step: finding a great company that takes pride in their canned tomatoes and can almost guarantee that 90% of those variables that appear when buying off the shelf are reduced down to about 5. ## Why Stanislaus Food Products? When you're looking for a tomato supplier, you want four key things: quality, reputation, longevity, and customer service. Stanislaus delivers on all fronts. Quality That's Uncompromising Stanislaus picks their California-grown tomatoes at the peak of flavor every summer and "Fresh Pack" each one within 6 hours of harvest. None of their products are made from re-manufactured tomato concentrate. They flavor-blend their tomatoes like fine wine grapes for a precise sugar/acid ratio that delivers perfect consistency and flavor every time. Reputation Built Over Decades This isn't some fly-by-night operation. Stanislaus has been offering their selection of tomato products prepared and packaged in traditional Italian methods for over 70 years. They cater mainly to pizzerias and Italian restaurants that are looking to enhance their recipes by using real, traditional ingredients. When you're in business for seven decades, you don't survive by cutting corners. Family Legacy, Not Corporate Profits Stanislaus remains family-owned by the Cortopassi family, whose roots trace back to Amerigo Cortopassi who came to the United States from Lucca, Italy at age 17 in 1921. As current president Tom Cortopassi puts it, making their tomatoes "best of the best" isn't just business—it's highly personal. This family takes great pride in knowing that restaurant families across the US and Canada have counted on their tomatoes for generations. Customer Service That Understands Your Business Because Stanislaus focuses specifically on pizzerias and Italian restaurants, they understand our challenges. They know that consistency isn't just nice to have—it's essential for our survival. Their customer service team speaks our language because they've been serving restaurants like ours for decades. www.stanislaus.com