After the dough has risen and the sauce has been made, Giuseppe Scotto builds a pizza, sometimes adding pepperoni and other toppings, always adding whole-milk mozzarella cheese. The owner of Napoli’s Pizza with three locations across Hall County eats a slice or two every day, and it’s because of the way he grew up that he’s been able to keep his business growing.

“My mom, she was born cooking,” Scotto said through a thick Italian accent, sitting in a booth at his 2-year-old Lula location. “My mom, she's five-star. You go inside of the house when my mom comes in and it’s like, ‘“Wow, who’s cooking?’”