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Wikipedia: Lombardi's was the first pizzeria in the United States, founded in 1905 in Little Italy, Manhattan. The business started out as a a grocery store at 53 Spring Street in 1897 opened by Gennaro Lombardi. In 1905 his employee Antonio Totonno Pero began selling tomato pies wrapped in paper and tied with a string.
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