NATIONWIDE PIZZA SHIPPING FOR THE HOLIDAYS VIA MANGIA PIZZA

Let Mangia Pizza FedEx a delicious Heart-Shaped Pizza to friends and family across the country.

Austin, Texas, November 29, 2007  The holiday season is here and Mangia Pizza announces online, nationwide shipping of their delicious Chicago stuffed pizzas, including the wildly popular Heart-Shaped Pizza, at www.mangiapizza.com.  With six restaurants and nearly 20 years of serving fantastic food to Austinites, Mangia's award winning stuffed pizzas are now available online to everyone in the continental U.S..  Mangia's famous Heart-Shaped Pizzas and Football-Shaped Pizzas are especially great holiday gift ideas to send to friends and family.

Eight wonderful Chicago stuffed pies are available online for nationwide pizza delivery (www.mangiapizza.com):

¨           Heart-Shaped Pepperoni

¨           Heart-Shaped Spinach

¨           Heart-Shaped Veggie

¨           Spinach (our number one selling specialty pizza and a vegetarian's delight)

¨           Chicago Special (green peppers, mushrooms, onions and sausage)

¨           Cheese

¨           Carnivore (two layers of beef, sausage and pepperoni)

¨           Football Shaped Pizza (with Carnivore ingredients) 

For the uninitiated, Mangia's Chicago stuffed pizzas are like a pie. A layer of bottom crust, cheese and your choice of ingredients in the middle, then another layer of dough above with Mangia's own pizza sauce to top it all off.   All pizzas are 12 inches and serve three to four people.  Prices range from $18 for the Cheese stuffed pizza to $25 for the Football-Shaped stuffed pizza. 

Ordering a Mangia pizza online is as easy as going to www.mangiapizza.com, clicking on "Order a Pizza" and then clicking on the pie of your choice.  Just a few clicks later and the order is in Mangia's hands.  To ensure freshness, the pizzas are prepared and half-baked, flash-frozen, kept in the freezer overnight and shipped the following day.   All the customer has to do is simply add the Mangia sauce that is included with the shipment and finish cooking the pizza for 15 to 20 minutes.  Shipping is done via a special arrangement with Federal Express®.                                                                  

There's a very unique connection between Austin and Chicago stuffed pies too.  Ike Sewell, a football

star and graduate from the University of Texas at Austin in the 1920's, invented the Chicago stuffed pizza while working at a Chicago pizzeria in 1943.  Mangia brought Ike's idea back to his gridiron home

of Austin and now the whole nation can enjoy his creation.

The idea of making Mangia pizza available nationwide through overnight shipping has been in Mangia ownership's heads for a long time.  "We've had customers complimenting us on how great our stuffed pies are for years," Mangia founder and co-owner Jeff Sayers relates.  "Many of these customers were U.T. students and as their graduation approached, they would tell me that they hoped we would open a restaurant in the town where they would soon be living.  Well, as the saying goes, if the customer can't come to Mangia, let Mangia come to the customer, and now we are."

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Mangia's Heart Shaped Pizza - Mangia's Heart Shaped Pizzas are so popular that Valentine's Day is the company's single largest sales day of the year, every year.  (Yes, larger than Super Bowl Sunday!!!)  Mangia sells around 3,000 Heart Shaped Pizzas every Valentine's Day in Austin alone.  Heart Shaped Pizzas are available online for shipping year around and are perfect for sharing that loving feeling with someone special or any holiday occasion.

Awards - Pizza Today Magazine recognized Mangia Pizza as the "National Independent Pizza Company of the Year" in 2005.  Mangia is the first and only Texas restaurant to receive this lofty industry honor.  Mangia has also been named "Best Pizza in Austin" by most local polls over the years including this year's Austin360.com internet poll, as well as, being a perennial winner in the Austin Chronicle  "Readers' Poll."  Another measure of success is Mangia's national ranking this year as the 19th largest (based on revenue) independent pizza company in the U.S.  What Austinites have enjoyed for years is now available online to everyone coast to coast (except Alaska and Hawaii).

Mangia - (Pronounced "Mon-juh") means "Eat" in Italian.  Mangia was established in Austin in 1988 and currently has six restaurant locations with four in Austin, one in Round Rock and one at Austin Bergstrom International Airport.  For more information about Mangia, please visit www.mangiapizza.com or contact, Rell Rice at 512-374-0800; email rell@mangiapizza.com.