“I’ve been friends with Jim for 15 years now,” said Scherlis. “We still have all these years left on this current lease and were just bouncing ideas around. I thought, why not have your son come in here and work with [Dead Bob’s GM] Martin McTague? Let’s serve your pizzas, and we’ll do the Italian subs.”
For Breazeale, whose family has operated DeLosa’s since 1983, the partnership is about blending his New York-style pizza roots with the comfort food that made Dead Bob’s a neighborhood favorite.
“We’re going to do some traditional stuff like DeLosa’s has had for over 40 years, but then we’re going to try some specialty pies too,” said Breazeale. “We’ll have great sandwiches, like Italian roast pork, roast beef, and old-school chicken cutlets, stuff you don’t see in a lot of pizzerias around here but that we grew up eating.”