“From Avocation To Vocation: How I Turned My Hobby Into A Career” With Nick Bogacz of Caliente Pizza & Draft House

An interview with Phil La Duke

…The second thing I wish someone told me is how important communicating with your team is. When we had one or two stores, we could get away with not having flawless communication. When we started to expand and our number of employees kept rising, I knew that was going to have to change. Now we have weekly meetings with our general managers and monthly meetings with our entire management team.

As a part of our series about entrepreneurs who transformed something they did for fun into a full-time career, I had the pleasure of interviewing Nick Bogacz, the President/Founder of Caliente Pizza & Draft House. Nick founded Caliente in 2012 and has since expanded to five locations throughout the Greater Pittsburgh Area, winning a multitude of awards along the way. After beginning his journey in the pizza industry as a delivery driver over twenty years ago, Nick has since become a World Pizza Champion, member of the World Pizza…