1 Free Press Staff Writer, “Viet GIs Hold Pizza Chef to Free Delivery Promise,” The Detroit Free Press (Michigan), December 19, 1968; Katie Fraser, “Windsor Pizza Delivered Some 4,000 km to Vancouver Island,” CBC News (Windsor, Ontario), February 1, 2021, https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/windsor-pizza-delivered-vancouver-island-bc-1.5896446; Mike Duffy, “If Madonna Parties, the World Parties Too,” The Detroit Free Press (Michigan), August 9, 1987. ↩ Back
2 George Kalivas, writer, The Pizza City You’ve Never Heard Of, directed by Tristan Laughton (LRG Super, 2022), CBC Gem, 6:17–8:54. ↩ Back
3 Adele Gualtieri-Amato, “Volcano Pizza Recipe,” in “Volcano Pizzeria: A Look into One of Windsor’s Most Famous Pizza Palaces,” CBC News (Windsor, Ontario), June 10, 2016, https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/jonathan-pinto-volcano-pizzeria-1.3628683 . ↩ Back
4 Joe Ciaravino, telephone interview with Ally Peddie, April 30, 2026. ↩ Back
5 Galati Cheese Company, “About Us,” 2026, https://galaticheese.com/about/ . ↩ Back
6 John E. Zucchi, “Mining, Railway Building and Street Construction: Italians in Ontario before World War One,” Italians in Ontario: Polyphony 7, no. 12 (1985): 7–8, Digital Collections University of Calgary; Madelyn Della Valle, Impronte: Italian Imprints in Windsor (Walkerville Publishing, 2009), 9. ↩ Back
7 Joe Dzive, “Italian Pioneers Aid Newcomers,” The Windsor Daily Star (Windsor, Ontario), July 18, 1959, ProQuest; Windsor Mosaic, “Mario’s Restaurant,” Italian Canadian Community, Government of Canada, 2005, https://web.archive.org/web/20250518062042/http://www.windsor-communities.com/italian-business-mario.php. ↩ Back
8 Russell M. Magnaghi, Italians in Michigan (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2001), 3–9; Armando Delicato, Italians in Detroit (Charleston: Arcadia Publishing, 2005), 81. ↩ Back
9 Walter Temelini, “Italians in Windsor,” Italians in Ontario: Polyphony 7, no. 12 (1985): 78; Delicato, Italians in Detroit, 90–91. ↩ Back
10 Della Valle, Impronte, 341. ↩ Back
11 Della Valle, Impronte, 341–345; Kalivas, The Pizza City You’ve Never Heard Of, 12:20–12:30. ↩ Back
12 Kalivas, The Pizza City You’ve Never Heard Of, 24:35–26:17. ↩ Back
13 Duffy, “If Madonna Parties, the World Parties Too”; John Tanasychuck, “Help a Windsor Pizza Fan,” The Detroit Free Press (Michigan), June 16, 1993, ProQuest. ↩ Back
14 Ciaravino, telephone interview; “Capri Pizzeria and BBQ Moved to New Location,” The Windsor Star (Ontario), June 29, 1963, ProQuest; “Windsor City Directory,” Might Directories (Windsor, Ontario), 1972, Southwestern Ontario Digital Archive. ↩ Back
15 Kevin Kalaydjian, telephone interview with Ally Peddie, May 15, 2026; “Windsor City Directory,” Might Directories (Windsor, Ontario), 1976, Southwestern Ontario Digital Archive. ↩ Back
16 Kalaydjian, telephone interview; “Windsor City Directory,” Might Directories (Windsor, Ontario), 1985, Southwestern Ontario Digital Archive; “Windsor City Directory,” Might Directories (Windsor, Ontario), 1987, Southwestern Ontario Digital Archive; Ted Whipp, “Capri Pizzeria Finds Right Recipe,” The Windsor Star (Ontario), December 27, 2007, ProQuest. ↩ Back
17 Kalaydjian, telephone interview; “Our Story,” Capri Pizzeria, 2023, https://www.capripizza.ca/about/ . ↩ Back
18 Ciaravino, telephone interview. ↩ Back
19 Bob Abumeeiz, telephone interview with Ally Peddie, May 20, 2026; “Windsor City Directory,” Might Directories (Windsor, Ontario), 1979, Southwestern Ontario Digital Archive; “Asimina Roupas Obituary,” The Windsor Star (Ontario), December 22, 2006, https://windsorstar.remembering.ca/obituary/asimina-roupas-1066512306 . ↩ Back
20 Brian Vallee, “Milano Tavern Interest Expanded,” The Windsor Star (Ontario), January 16, 1973, ProQuest. ↩ Back
21 Bob Meyer, “Franco’s a Pizza Success,” The Windsor Star (Ontario), March 5, 1984, ProQuest; Chris Vande Doelen, “Pizza,” The Windsor Star (Ontario), March 30, 1985, ProQuest; Sheila King, “Hard Work Fulfils Family Knead,” The Windsor Star (Ontario), March 24, 1990, ProQuest. ↩ Back
22 Bob Meyer, “Tedesco Sells Franco’s Restaurant,” The Windsor Star (Ontario), February 4, 1997, ProQuest. ↩ Back
23 Colleen Cross, “Expansion, Armando’s Style,” Canadian Pizza Magazine, April 18, 2016, https://www.canadianpizzamag.com/expansion-armandos-style-6535/ ; Rebecca Wright, “Armando’s Pizza: 50th Anniversary,” The Windsor Star (Ontario), November 15, 2017, https://windsorstar.com/special-features-3/armandos-pizza . ↩ Back
24 Cross, “Expansion, Armando’s Style”; Wright, “Armando’s Pizza: 50th Anniversary.” ↩ Back
25 Ted Whipp, “Naples Founder Got Start at Harvey’s,” The Windsor Star (Ontario), June 22, 2006, ProQuest; “Success Stories,” The Windsor Star (Ontario), April 12, 2011, ProQuest. ↩ Back
26 Ciaravino, telephone interview; Details surrounding the number of pizzerias in Windsor were accessed using Google Maps. This number is not exclusive; it represents only those available in this project’s search efforts within Windsor–Essex County (not Windsor-style locations in other cities or countries). ↩ Back
27 Ciaravino, telephone interview. ↩ Back
28 Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (New York: First Mariner Books, 2012), 14–16. ↩ Back
29 Brian Bannon, “Windsor’s Pizzerias Brace for ‘Invasion,’” The Windsor Star (Ontario), December 2, 1986, ProQuest. ↩ Back
30 Bannon, “Windsor’s Pizzerias Brace for ‘Invasion’”; Alan Abrams, “Everybody Wants a Slice of the Pie,” The Windsor Star (Ontario), March 7, 1987, ProQuest. ↩ Back
31 Karen Dybis, Detroit Style Pizza: A Doughtown History (Charleston: American Palate, 2023), 19, 29; Bob Talbert, “Buddy’s Ranks as a Pizza Valhalla,” The Detroit Free Press, October 11, 1974, ProQuest. ↩ Back
32 Carol Helstosky, Pizza: A Global History (London: Reaktion Books, 2008), 52, 65, 67; Mitch Albom, “Slice of Life,” The Detroit Free Press, July 17, 1992, ProQuest. ↩ Back
33 “Sold Again: Can This Iconic Pizza Brand Reclaim Its Crown Under New Owners?,” PMQ Pizza, April 3, 2026, https://www.pmq.com/a-truly-iconic-pizza-brand-has-new-owners-whats-next-for-buddys-pizza/ . ↩ Back
34 Ciaravino, telephone interview. ↩ Back
35 Cross, “Expansion, Armando’s Style”; Wright, “Armando’s Pizza: 50th Anniversary.” ↩ Back
36 Trevor Wilhelm, “‘Entrenched in Our History’: The Passion, Mystery, and Controversy of Windsor Pizza,” The Windsor Star (Ontario), August 19, 2025, https://windsorstar.com/news/local-news/entrenched-in-our-history-the-passion-mystery-and-controversy-of-windsor-pizza . ↩ Back
37 Kalaydjian, telephone interview; Abumeeiz, telephone interview. ↩ Back
38 Trevor Wilhelm, “Pizza Lover Has Pie Delivered from Windsor to Regina,” The Windsor Star (Ontario), January 27, 2015, https://windsorstar.com/news/pizza-lover-has-pie-delivered-from-windsor-to-regina ; Sheena Goodyear, “Why This B.C. Man Spent $600 to Order Pizza All the Way from Windsor, Ont.,” CBC Radio, May 6, 2022, https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-the-friday-edition-1.6444447/why-this-b-c-man-spent-600-to-order-pizza-all-the-way-from-windsor-ont-1.6444452 . ↩ Back
39 Free Press Staff Writer, “Viet GIs Hold Pizza Chef to Free Delivery Promise.” ↩ Back
40 Albert Dumouchelle, “Episode 44: Armando’s Pizza in Clawson, Michigan,” Instagram reel posted by WinCity Pizza Reviews, March 18, 2026, 00:00:30–00:00:35. ↩ Back
41 Ciaravino, telephone interview; Abumeeiz, telephone interview. ↩ Back