June 11th 2021
Old Mole brings his pizza back to school
The Year 8 boarders were treated to delicious stone-baked pizzas on Thursday night, served to them by Old Mole Tom Stuart who has launched his own pizza takeaway business.
Tom, who is studying A-levels in business, photography and music at Shiplake College, learned to make pizzas during last year’s lockdown. He borrowed an oven from the Barn café at Turville Heath, where he has worked part-time for four years, and watched online videos to help him perfect his recipes and techniques. He then asked members of his family to taste them and their positive response convinced him to set up Pizza Please and sell to the public using ovens, which he has now bought with money saved up from working at the café.
We were impressed with his entrepreneurial spirit and invited him back to his old Prep School to treat the boarders who had finished their Common Entrance. Their verdict was ‘bellissimo’!
