Our Story

Between all the screaming about "cheapest" " fastest" and "cheesiest" all the big chains forgot about one thing: you the discriminating customer!

We started making pizzas and Italian food over twenty years ago. Long before there were conveyer belt ovens and before pizza companies started loading their dough with lard and preservatives. This was good old-fashioned hand made pizza baked in big old brick ovens! We traveled near and far, tasting pizza in every hole in the wall or fancy pizza restaurant we could find. One pizza after another, our desire to bring people good pizza grew stronger and stronger. We decided to quit our day jobs, pack the dogs in the truck and head to Georgia to bring that old fashioned goodness back to Woodstock!

Every item we use to prepare your food has been hand picked as the best available. We use the finest Pillsbury flour to make our pizza dough, not just "whatever the distributor brings". Every morning, we make the dough for our famous crust. We begin by mixing filtered water and special yeast. After all the ingredients are added, the dough is mixed for 9 minutes and 30 seconds in our 1983 Hobart mixer. (Yeah, we're pretty sure it was made in 1983!) Each individual dough ball is cut, weighed and hand-rolled to exacting specifications, one of them will be for your pizza! We place the dough balls in special containers in the walk in cooler to "proof" we check each batch carefully, and when it's just right, we hand toss your pizza! Our customers rave about our pizza crust!

We start our pizza sauce with tomatoes grown in california, not some foreign country. The tomatoes are grown in the lush valleys around Modesto and they get packed fresh, never from concentrate, at the peak of their flavor. 100% of the tomatoes have to be fresh packed during the three month vine-ripe season each summer. Once the good stuff is gone, there's no more until next year! Even though it costs more, Decio's wouldn't have it any other way! I promise you, our sauces are loaded with flavor, not just sugar and tomato paste like the others use.

Each and every item that we prepare is created for you when you order it. Even our Alfredo sauce is made to order from the finest cream, imported parmesan cheese, dairy fresh butter and aromatic fresh garlic. No big vats of Alfredo sauce waiting to be ladled on stale pasta. Doing things this way may take a little longer, but our customers think it's worth the wait.

We offer great food, great family fun and great value. But that's for you to judge. After all, you're our best critic! Come to Decio's --- We'll treat you right!