Michael LaMarca

Michael LaMarca is the owner and CEO of Master Pizza Franchise Group, LLC in Mayfield, Ohio. Master Pizza has appeared several times in Pizza Today’s “Hot 100 Pizzerias in America,” placing as high as 69th, and LaMarca himself was featured on PMQ Pizza’s cover in September 2017. He also won “Best in the Midwest” on Hulu’s “Best in Dough” show in 2022. When he was 15, LaMarca started his pizza-making career at Gina’s Pizza in Strongsville, Ohio, and became a manager at 17. His family purchased Master Pizza in 2001, and LaMarca opened the second location in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, in 2012. In 2013, he started Master Pizza Franchise Group and has grown the company to 15 locations. He is a member of the U.S. Pizza Team and has won numerous pizza-making competitions around the country, including 1st place in the Best Non-Traditional Division at the 2013 International Pizza Challenge and 1st place in the U.S. Pizza Team’s Best Pizza in America competition in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017. Master Pizza was also honored for the best pizza in Cleveland Magazine’s “Best of the East” edition in 2013, 2014 and 2015.