On the menu<\/p>\n
Mandy Krasniqi said their Chilean seabass, which is one of her favorite dishes, takes top ranking on the popularity chart at their Richardson restaurant.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhenever we describe the sea bass\u2014it melts in your mouth and has a lemon wine sauce\u2014that one is very easy to sell,\u201d Tony Krasniqi said. \u201cWe have a lot of people who only get that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Other top-selling items include shrimp scallop diablo and Mandy\u2019s Special featuring breaded chicken cooked in brandy cream sauce with basil, red peppers, tomatoes, pepperoncini peppers, topped with feta and mozzarella cheese and served with fettucini pasta.<\/p>\n
One of Mandy Krasniqi\u2019s responsibilities is making desserts for both restaurants. She said her personal favorite is her amaretto cheesecake, but the most frequently ordered dessert is her Key lime pie.<\/p>\n
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Key lime pie ($11) is a top-selling dessert at Venezia\u2019s Pizza Cafe. (Karen Chaney\/Community Impact)She credits customer appreciation as one of her favorite things about being a restaurateur.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe number one reason I enjoy working here is when I hear customers say how much they love my desserts,\u201d Mandy Krasniqi said. \u201cMy husband and everyone says, \u2018Mommy doesn’t have to cook anymore.\u2019 But I see people enjoying it so much, and I just want to make more.\u201d<\/p>\n
The backstory<\/p>\n
Prior to opening Venezia\u2019s over two decades ago, Benny and Mandy Krasniqi worked in a variety of restaurant kitchens in New York. They chose to move to Texas to start their business because although North Texas was growing, it wasn\u2019t nearly as busy as New York, and they had relatives living in the area. As their three children, Tony, Albiona and Albion Krasniqi, grew up, they worked in the family restaurant in Richardson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As a family-owned and -operated business, the Krasniqi family places high priority on providing a family-friendly environment at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161,82436],"class_list":["post-210390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-venezias-pizza-cafe-in-richardson-venezias-pizza-cafe-near-me-pizza-in-richardson-pizza-near-me-italian-food-in-richardson-italian-food-near-me-desserts-in-richardson-desserts-near-m"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}