{"id":336823,"date":"2026-09-03T08:08:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T08:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/336823\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T08:08:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T08:08:21","slug":"fresh-out-of-the-oven-ziggys-pizza-arrives-in-manhattan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/336823\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh out of the oven | Ziggy\u2019s Pizza arrives in Manhattan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manhattan residents have a new hangout spot located at 1026 Pointz Ave., as Ziggy\u2019s Pizza officially opened its doors on Aug. 28 and became an immediate success.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was awesome,\u201d Bryce Forrest, co-general manager of Ziggy\u2019s Pizza, said. \u201cWe almost went through all of our food that we had.\u201d<\/p>\n

Forrest and Cam Fenwick are co-general managers at Ziggy\u2019s Pizza and have been working for the restaurant since 2017.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe started off as cooks a long time ago, then we went to kitchen managers and then we started working out front, serving,\u201d Forrest said, \u201cAnd then after that, when we turned 21, we could manage.\u201d<\/p>\n

The more time the duo worked for the establishment, the more loyal they became even through their other pursuits. No matter where they went, they always came back to Ziggy\u2019s Pizza.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHe [Forrest] went to the Air Force,\u201d Fenwick said. \u201cI went to school, and we still kind of worked there during the summers, and then when we graduated, we came back to work for the company and started running our own stores, and here we are.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ziggy\u2019s Pizza is a locally-owned family business. Owner Jamie Verbeckmoes is Fenwick\u2019s uncle, and, along with being coworkers, Forrest and Fenwick are long-term, close friends. Jamie Verbeckmoes and his brother, Ryan Verbeckmoes, started Ziggy\u2019s Pizza in Wichita, and the establishment eventually developed into four separate locations.<\/p>\n

\u201cRyan and I had kicked around opening a restaurant for a few years,\u201d Verbeckmoes said. \u201cHe was working for restaurants in Oklahoma, and I was in real estate, and then we just kind of decided to go for it and open our first one. We didn\u2019t ever anticipate growing more than one, and we just were so busy at that one.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"The newly opened and renovated Ziggy\u2019s pizza located next to city park in Manhattan (Ashton Todd<\/a>)<\/p>\n

With the help of Verbeckmoes\u2019 family, Ziggy\u2019s Pizza grew across Wichita.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cMy sister and her husband got involved, and we added more; one of my other brothers also got involved,\u201d Jamie Verbeckmoes said. \u201cSo, we just kept going and kept adding more, and now here we are 15 years later\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Regardless of its success in Wichita, the family was eager to expand their business to the Little Apple.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always wanted to put one of our restaurants here, and it just made sense,\u201d Jamie Verbeckmoes said. \u201cWe come to Manhattan several times a year. It\u2019s kind of like my second home. It\u2019s just always been a dream of ours to put one in Manhattan.\u201d<\/p>\n

Describing themselves as \u201chands-on,\u201d the owners plan to focus heavily on the new location and said Manhattan customers can expect to see them at the new restaurant frequently.<\/p>\n

Despite its popular menu, Ziggy\u2019s Pizza is known for more than just pizza, wings, sandwiches and salads. The establishment\u2019s positive energy and environment encourage customers to come back.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve always been known for our own vibe, and we want to bring that up here, and so far, I feel like we\u2019ve kicked that off to a good start,\u201d Fenwick said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The co-managers are thankful to the community for coming to support the business during its opening.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was pretty cool, thinking back that all these people came to support us,\u201d said Fenwick. \u201cWhether their service was great, or maybe we were hustling around, and ticket times were a little bit slower, they could still come in and support us, so we want to say thank you for that.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manhattan residents have a new hangout spot located at 1026 Pointz Ave., as Ziggy\u2019s Pizza officially opened its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-336823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}