

Then when you get older you start making the pizzas, learn how to fly ‘em, do it the right way.” “Father chasing us around making us do all the work as little grunt workers. “We started here when we were little kids - 8 years old,” Tony said. Tony and Frank Graci are now second generation owners of the popular pizza joint know for its signature New York Style. I mean hard work, hour after hour, year after year, to get to where we’re at right now.” “When you look back, it’s about my father, his brother and uncles,” John’s son and Co-owner Tony Graci said. 1, 1971 when John Graci opened the original location in downtown Dayton.

The pizzeria was started by John Graci in 1971, and is now carried on by his sons Tony and Frank after he retired.The Original Flying Pizza is celebrating 50 years in business in Dayton.
