THE OLIVE WOOD PIZZA JOURNAL
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Olive Wood Pizza in the Conversation
Olive Wood Pizza's work extends beyond the events we serve. Explore podcast conversations with owner Scott Kleckner, features from planners and wedding publications, and outside perspectives on our food, service and growth.
Olive Wood Pizza's work extends beyond the events we serve. Explore podcast conversations with owner Scott Kleckner, features from planners and wedding publications, and outside perspectives on our food, service and growth.
Scott Kleckner Talks Betting on Himself
On this episode of Digital Hospitality from CREATE for Emerging Restaurants, Shawn Walchef sits down with Scott Kleckner to talk about restaurant leadership, catering, entrepreneurship, and what happens when an experienced operator finally decides to bet on himself.
Why Outworking Everyone Else Changed His Life
On The Resiliency Project, Scott Kleckner discusses 18 months of unemployment, the loss of professional confidence, taking the risk of buying Olive Wood Pizza and why resilience sometimes looks less like inspiration and more like returning to work.
Why Hospitality?
Scott co-hosted a Rising Tides Live conversation about the demanding, unpredictable and deeply human nature of hospitality - and why the industry continues to create opportunity for people willing to show up, learn and lead.
The Power of Saying No
In another Rising Tides Live discussion, Scott led a conversation about protecting time, making decisions against a clear North Star and understanding that every yes carries a cost.
Partner features
The Perfect Slice of Service
Method Event Productions explains why its longstanding partnership with Olive Wood Pizza works across weddings, corporate gatherings and private events. The feature focuses on the invisible coordination between food production and polished event service.
Recommended by The French Estate
The French Estate includes Olive Wood Pizza among its recommended mobile caterers and food trucks, describing the company's wood-fired catering and trailer-mounted oven.
Wedding features
A Cozy Industrial Wedding at Hudson Loft
Junebug Weddings featured a downtown Los Angeles wedding where Olive Wood Pizza served bruschetta, meatballs and hors d'oeuvres during cocktail hour, followed by family-style salads and four pizza varieties at each table.
A Tropical Wedding at Valentine
A recent Junebug Weddings feature credits Olive Wood Pizza as the caterer for a colorful Valentine wedding produced by Method Event Productions.
A Garden Wedding Featured by Brides
Brides included Olive Wood Pizza among the late-night caterers for a large California garden wedding at Hummingbird Nest Ranch.
More stories are being written
Follow Scott Kleckner on LinkedIn for an ongoing look at Olive Wood Pizza's growth, hospitality leadership, equipment, team and construction of our second Long Beach commissary.