Jesse Pricer
Restaurateur & Founder · Restaurateur & Festa Founder
Jesse Pricer is the founder of Festa Pizza Co. and the driving force behind the brand's mission: to make home-crafted pizza accessible, social, and genuinely fun. After years of hosting backyard pizza nights, and owning nearly every oven on the market along the way, Jesse set out to build something better: an oven engineered to enable a beginner to make an edible pizza on their first try, and a seasoned pizza chef to push the limits. Every detail of the oven was determined by Jesse with a purpose. "Making pizza outdoors is a completely different discipline than making it in an indoor restaurant kitchen," Jesse says. "Every detail, from the dual-burner system to the oven's geometry, had to be designed with that in mind." Jesse's mission is to restore and strengthen relationships built around the family table. Outside of the world of pizza, Jesse is an entrepreneur, angel investor, and seasoned investment professional with nearly 30 years in the industry. He has been married to his wife, Brandi, for almost 30 years and has three adult children and one grandchild.
Recipes by Jesse Pricer
S'mores Dessert Pizza
Toasted marshmallow, melted chocolate, and graham cracker crumble on a crispy pizza crust. A guaranteed crowd-stopper at any backyard cookout.
Easy NY Style Pizza Sauce
Quick, easy, inexpensive, delicious and healthy NY style pizza sauce.
Detroit Style Pizza
Detroit style might be the easiest pizza you'll ever make in your Festa Oven, and a lot of people who know pizza say it's also the most delicious. No spinning, no stretching, no chasing dough across a peel. You press it into a pan, pile the cheese up to the walls, and let the bottom burner do the work. Two short bakes, about 13 minutes in the oven, and you get a thick, airy crust, a bottom so crisp it crackles, and the caramelized cheese edge people talk about long after the party. A Detroit pizzeria will charge you $30 to $50 for this pie. At home it costs about $4, and one pan feeds a family of four.