Spinato’s Pizzeria & Family Kitchen is celebrating its 50th Anniversary with special events and promotions throughout the year. A big highlight is the new “Stay Golden Pizza.” A portion of proceeds will benefit Magicians on Mission. Founded by magician and comedian Chris Rose, the Phoenix-based nonprofit recruits magicians from North America to boost the morale and emotional health of American service members deployed overseas. The special pizza includes a fig and roasted red pepper base, mozzarella cheese, nduja sausage, cherry tomato confit, pickled red onion, ricotta cheese, lonzino salami, Stracciatella cheese, fresh basil, Saba Italian drizzle and gold flakes. For more visit SpinatosPizzeria.com.
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00:00 Magicians and chefs are usually people who don't share their secrets, but Spinato's Pizzeria
00:06 and Family Kitchen is happy to share the spotlight with magicians on a mission for their 50th
00:12 anniversary celebration.
00:13 Jamie and Chris are here to tell us maybe some of their secrets?
00:17 A couple maybe?
00:20 So Spinato's is celebrating 50 years in business this year and we have a bunch of fun stuff
00:25 going on in celebration of our anniversary.
00:28 That's incredible.
00:29 Tell us a little bit about it.
00:30 So we are, one of our core values is community, so we decided to come up with a pizza.
00:37 It's called State Golden Pizza to celebrate our Jubilee year.
00:41 Because 50 years is your golden anniversary.
00:43 It is.
00:44 Okay, I love it.
00:45 So with a portion of proceeds from this pizza, it will go over to Magicians on Mission.
00:50 Great.
00:51 But I want to tell you a little bit about this pizza too.
00:53 Tell me about it because this looks absolutely gorgeous.
00:55 Thank you.
00:57 So this pizza has three cheeses.
00:59 It is stracciatella, mozzarella, and ricotta with the base of fig and roasted red pepper.
01:07 It has a nougat sausage, it has lanzino, salami, confit tomatoes, and then it is topped with
01:15 basil and a little sprinkle of golden dust.
01:20 Ooh, golden dust.
01:22 What's golden dust?
01:23 It's edible golden dust.
01:24 It is like sparkling, you guys.
01:27 This pizza is so beautiful, which is a great way to celebrate the pizza, the 50 years.
01:32 This is so exciting.
01:33 And I was reading a little bit about your guys' family history, and it says here that
01:37 on the first day you guys were open, they only made 69 cents.
01:41 Is that right?
01:42 Yeah, that's correct.
01:43 It was an iced tea that we sold.
01:44 Oh my goodness.
01:45 And you have come so far since then.
01:47 I mean, the history of Spinato's is incredible.
01:49 You are definitely a staple here in the Valley, which is really, really beautiful.
01:52 Thank you.
01:53 So, you guys have been open for Magicians on 50 years, and I think we should celebrate
01:57 a little bit more.
01:58 I don't know, Jamie, can we do one of these guys?
02:00 Yes, let's do it.
02:01 Okay, how do we open these?
02:02 Okay, so I think you, you know, like a push-up pop.
02:05 I think you just kind of push up with it.
02:07 All right, ready?
02:08 Yep.
02:09 One, two, three.
02:10 Woo!
02:11 Woo, it's so exciting!
02:12 Yay, congratulations.
02:13 All right, well, since you guys are partnering with Magicians on Mission, tell us a little
02:20 bit about how that's going to work.
02:22 Yeah, so like I was saying, a portion of proceeds from this pizza will go over to Magicians
02:27 on Mission, and I'll let Chris take it away with me.
02:30 Yeah, so Chris, welcome.
02:32 First of all, I have to say that we're super excited to have you in here, but also that
02:35 you've recently been on Penn & Teller, which is a show that we have here on The CW7.
02:39 Tell us a little bit about that experience.
02:41 So that was 2016, so I was on season three, episode 12, and I got invited up to Vegas,
02:49 and I was actually one of 11 people that year that succeeded in fooling them.
02:53 Wow, oh my goodness, that is a huge feat right there.
02:57 But tell us a little bit about what you guys do.
03:01 So Magicians on Mission, what we do is we provide active duty military support.
03:06 So I put together teams of magicians, and I send them overseas to bring a touch of home,
03:12 time to relax, time to de-stress for a little bit, and show our service members that they're
03:18 not forgotten.
03:19 Wow, that's really cool, because there's nothing quite as special as a magic show, right?
03:24 Like you were saying, you actually fooled Penn & Teller, which is a huge deal, and it
03:29 really is kind of super magical and special, right, when you see a magic trick.
03:34 So I hear you're going to do one for us?
03:35 Sure.
03:36 Okay.
03:37 We'll do one that's kind of centered around this.
03:38 Oh, great.
03:39 It's actually a test of perception.
03:41 What I have here is some $1 bills.
03:42 Just by the weight, how many $1 bills do you think are there?
03:46 Probably six or seven.
03:47 Six or seven, fantastic.
03:48 Do you know how many locations Spinato's has in the Valley?
03:52 I don't know.
03:53 We have six.
03:54 Exactly.
03:55 Oh, my goodness.
03:56 Okay, so we've got it for almost each one.
03:57 There you go.
03:58 And then we have concessions.
03:59 So I have six $1 bills here.
04:00 Okay.
04:01 One, two, three, four, five, six.
04:02 Now, here's the cool thing about being a magician.
04:03 I can change things, smush the ink around, change them to like fives, tens, twenties,
04:07 fifties, hundreds.
04:08 What would you like to see?
04:09 $100 bills, absolutely.
04:10 Oh, I was going to give you a clue.
04:12 We're celebrating what year?
04:14 Oh, 50.
04:15 Okay, so 50.
04:16 Let's do 50.
04:17 Yeah.
04:18 And the cool thing is that we always celebrate.
04:19 Oh, my gosh.
04:20 And making these.
04:21 Oh, my goodness.
04:22 We have six $50 bills.
04:24 You can check it out.
04:25 And I get to take this home today, right?
04:26 No, I have a nine-year-old to pay for.
04:27 All right.
04:28 Well, that was incredible.
04:29 Is that one of the tricks that you did on Penn & Teller?
04:34 It is not.
04:35 Oh, okay.
04:36 Well, that one would have fooled them because that was incredible.
04:37 And you probably would have won them over by giving them a couple extra bucks in their
04:41 pocket.
04:42 That's called bribery, but sure.
04:44 That also works, Chris.
04:45 Thank you so much.
04:46 All right, Jamie.
04:47 Can you tell us a little bit about some of the things that you're doing throughout the
04:49 year that everybody can be involved in for your 50th anniversary?
04:52 Absolutely.
04:53 So, we have a cocktail that we're...
04:57 It's called the Golden Hour, and so that's a fun little thing that we could celebrate
05:01 with.
05:02 And then we're also doing a wedding dress era party.
05:06 So, that is in the works, which we'll be able to wear our old wedding dresses and come to
05:13 spin on those.
05:14 That's perfect because I have some laying around.
05:15 Okay, that sounds great.
05:16 And you can put a little pizza on it because you've already worn it for your wedding.
05:18 Yeah, exactly.
05:19 All right, this is so great.
05:20 Why don't we pour some of the champagne to celebrate?
05:22 Chris, thank you for fooling everybody.
05:24 And congratulations to Spinatas on 50 years.
05:27 Yeah.
05:28 Cheers.
05:28 - Yay!
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