Continuing the TIL Totino's isn't just a kinda-Italian sounding name thought up by some some execs to turn out $1 just-barely-edible-when-high frozen pizza, but the name of a Minnesota woman named...
Continuing the TIL
Totino's isn't just a kinda-Italian sounding name thought up by some some execs to turn out $1 just-barely-edible-when-high frozen pizza, but the name of a Minnesota woman named Rose Totino.
Having first experienced pizza for the first time when visiting friends in Pennsylvania, she often made it for her friends. This eventually led Totino to launch an Italian restaurant with her husband Jim, and by 1962, the couple had started making frozen pizzas themselves.
Then sold the company to Pillsbury in 1975 for $20M (after talking them up from the $16M original offer and was given the first female VP position at the company).
Continuing the TIL
Totino's isn't just a kinda-Italian sounding name thought up by some some execs to turn out $1 just-barely-edible-when-high frozen pizza, but the name of a Minnesota woman named Rose Totino.
Then sold the company to Pillsbury in 1975 for $20M (after talking them up from the $16M original offer and was given the first female VP position at the company).