{"id":4588,"date":"2022-04-20T09:39:22","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T16:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/?p=4588"},"modified":"2022-04-20T17:09:44","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T00:09:44","slug":"pizzeria-moves-from-franchise-to-local-eatery-village-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/2022\/04\/20\/pizzeria-moves-from-franchise-to-local-eatery-village-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Pizzeria Moves from Franchise to Local Eatery &#8211; Village Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>(Jana Rossi)<\/pre>\n<p>EL DORADO HILLS, CA. \u2014 After 15 years working under a Mountain Mike\u2019s franchise agreement, Sal and Sandi Viscuso wanted to call their own shots. Earlier this year, when the franchise lease was up at their El Dorado Hills restaurant, they chose not to renew \u2014 deciding instead to add their own spin to what was a cookie cutter operation under their franchise agreement.<\/p>\n<p>The Viscusos kept the location, changed the name, spiced up the menu and couldn\u2019t be happier.<\/p>\n<p>Sal and Sandi\u2019s story began in the mid \u201980s when they met while attending California State University, Sacramento. Sal was working in finance and Sandi in electronics and they had two young girls at home they didn\u2019t want to miss time with. Both knew they needed to ditch the 9-to-5 world to make that happen. Sal, being Sicilian, said pizza was a natural choice. They opened the El Dorado Hills Mountain Mike\u2019s Pizza and later followed with two additional Mountain Mike\u2019s in Cameron Park and Granite Bay, both of which have since been sold.<\/p>\n<p>So, what has changed now that the franchise is gone and Viscuso\u2019s Pizza &amp; Draft House is open?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything,\u201d Sal shared. \u201cOur dough and sauce are made from scratch and our cheese is made using [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.villagelife.com\/news\/pizzeria-moves-from-franchise-to-local-eatery\/?utm_source=InEDC&amp;utm_medium=News&amp;utm_campaign=Placerville&amp;utm_content=Eyeballs-via-Placerville-Newswire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Jana Rossi) EL DORADO HILLS, CA. \u2014 After 15 years working under a Mountain Mike\u2019s franchise agreement, Sal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ScreenHunter-2022.jpg",634,586,false],"thumbnail":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ScreenHunter-2022-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ScreenHunter-2022-600x555.jpg",600,555,true],"medium_large":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ScreenHunter-2022.jpg",634,586,false],"large":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ScreenHunter-2022.jpg",634,586,false],"1536x1536":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ScreenHunter-2022.jpg",634,586,false],"2048x2048":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ScreenHunter-2022.jpg",634,586,false],"darknews-slider-full":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ScreenHunter-2022.jpg",634,586,false],"darknews-featured":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ScreenHunter-2022.jpg",634,586,false],"darknews-medium":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ScreenHunter-2022-634x530.jpg",634,530,true],"darknews-medium-square":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ScreenHunter-2022-350x350.jpg",350,350,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"News MoLo","author_link":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/author\/admin\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/News\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a>","tag_info":"News","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4588"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4590,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4588\/revisions\/4590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}