Andrew Simmons

Andrew Simmons is CEO/master franchiser of Mamma Ramona’s/Pizza Roboto and one of the pizza industry’s leading disruptors. He purchased Mamma Ramona’s, located in Ramona, California, in 2020 and transformed it into a truly innovative, tech-forward concept. Over the past year, Simmons has grown Mamma Ramona’s to five locations—two in San Diego, one in Los Angeles, one in Charlotte, N.C. and one in Tempe, Ariz. Simmons focuses on building pizza restaurants with a small footprint and speedy pizza output using food automation, pizza-making robots and fast-baking ovens. He has also successfully implemented an annual pizza subscription service and a revenue-sharing program to offset subscribers’ costs for signing on. He regularly documents his journey of pizza innovation on LinkedIn and has been spotlighted in Forbes, Restaurant Business, the San Diego Tribune, The Spoon and other print and digital publications. He previously served as president of the Restaurant Marketing Delivery Association, helping to partner independent pizzerias with local restaurant delivery services, and was featured on PMQ Pizza’s October 2022 cover.