Local Pizza Shop Gives “Heat” Bonus To Employees

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Pesci's Pizza and Wings is the best. The owners Chris + Jim are the owners of Pesci's Pizza in Western New York and they gave all of their employees a bonus for working hard in the hot weather all this week.

Buffalo had temperatures that were floating around 90 degrees all week long and it seemed like, at times, that it was completely unbearable. That didn't stop the the owners from making sure their employees knew that they were appreciated. In every single employees paycheck they received an extra $20.

Take a look at their Facebook post below:

Buffalo is packed with great, local pizza joints. That is why you hear so much about 'Buffalo pizza' when you are out of town. But, that is also why a lot of National pizza chains do not even try their luck here.

Buffalo, New York, has 17.8 pizza restaurants per 100,000 residents — the highest rate of any city and more than double the national average of 8.4 per 100,000", according to ListWithClever.com. Now, Buffalo ranks at the top of the list for pizzerias per capita, more pizzerias per person than any other city in America, but what about the world? It HAS TO be a world record. Nobody eats more pizza than the United States, even Italy

Buffalo scored a 92 out of 100 in our pizza passion metric based on local Google search activity, which is 28% higher than the average city's score of 72.

Buffalo had a chance to earn the No. 1 spot overall but was hurt by low affordability. Buying a weekly cheese pizza costs typical residents 1.91% of their annual income — 30% more than the average city's cost of 1.47%.

There are so many good pizzerias in Western New York, but people tend to always go what they are familiar with. What is your go-to pizza place around Buffalo?