(hands clapping) - Who doesn't like pizza?

(laughs) (upbeat music) I'm Janine Hudak.

Go ahead.

- No, go ahead, you go ahead.

- Take two.

(Janine laughs) - And I'm Tammy Lemelin, and we own Pizza Perfect in Trucksville.

- Pennsylvania, woo-hoo.

(upbeat music) Our whole lives have been in this building.

- Well, it's just not a box of pizza you're opening up, you're opening up a story.

It was started in 1975 by our parents, two partners and their wives as well.

- [Janine] They hated their jobs.

They said, "Let's open up a pizza place."

- Even though we had three children and everything, you know, we thought, "Well, if we don't do it now, "we're always gonna say, woulda, shoulda, you know, didn't."

So we took a chance, took a chance, and it worked, it worked.

(upbeat music) - [Tammy] It's fried Sicilian.

It's a fresh dough.

It's not a shell.

- It's a lot of love that goes in, a lot of labor, a lot of love, and we're very consistent.

- [Tammy] We have never changed anything.

All the ingredients are the same.

- Well, this is the best pizza in the world.

It's crusty.

It's just delicious.

- You have to have it with the onions.

That's the important part.

- There's a lot up here places that have the thick crust, but I think this is the best.

- I mean, once people leave the area, sometimes they come back.

It's just like a taste of home.

- And I'm from Tucson, Arizona.

We're originally from Dallas and Wilkes-Barre, and the first thing we do, we get into town, pick up my sister, we come to Pizza Perfect.

- Anywhere in Brooklyn, I like, I'll get a tray and they're like, I don't know what that means.

This pizza does not exist there.ú - Right.

- Which is a blessing and a curse because it tastes so much better when I come home.

- [Tammy] I would never say that we do it all ourselves.

- [Janine] No, we can't.

- [Tammy] We can't.

- [Janine] We can't, and- - [Tammy] It takes a village.

- A whole village.

(Tammy laughs) A village.

Like, it's our house.

- [Tammy] It is our house, and these are all our kids.

We've watched them grow up.

- We've had people who've worked there, or just customers that come in, have had kids, and then they grew up, and then those kids are coming, and then they have kids.

And then those kids are coming.

- Brian, he's been with us since he's 15?

- 15, yeah.

- And I love doing it, and I love everyone.

I love the who I work for.

- [Janine] He is our primary baker because he's so meticulous.

We make him teach everybody, because everything gets explained the same exact way as when you walked through the door the first time in 1975.

- You know, family's not blood.

Family's love.

And it's not just the workers.

I mean, there's so many customers- - Customers - throughout the years, customers that have become family.

- We feel like family.

I've been here since pretty much the beginning because my mom used to come pick up pizza for us when it first started.

And we just struck up a conversation, just became friends.

- They make you feel very welcome here.

We came here the night my husband died.

That night when I went to pay the bill, Tammy said, "It's paid."

Had to have been $400 or more.

- I think their legacy is how they treated people and that in itself will resonate in this community for a very long time.

- [Worker] Hello, hello.

- Good morning.

- [Worker] Louise is here.

- Hello.

- It wasn't for her and dad.

We wouldn't have our work ethic.

The way they taught us - Still comes to work.

- Yep, Fridays.

- She loves it though.

- [Tammy] She's a good person.

- [Janine] She's the best.

- [Tammy] Yep.

- Yep, definitely.

But they both were.

- Yep.

- They both were the best.

(quiet music) My father loved to cook.

Every Monday, he cooked a meal for every delivery driver that came in or salesperson that came through.

- [Tammy] Or anybody who walked in the door.

- Or, or friends, they'd sit and just chat and BS about things, you know, and eat.

But I'll never forget the day of my father's funeral luncheon.

There was a customer out there and he's, "What's going on?"

And so he came in and he ate too.

(Tammy laughs) So it's like my father was still feeding everybody after he was even gone.

(upbeat music) It's been a great ride.

- [Tammy] Yeah.

Not that it's over or anything.

- Not that it's over.

- What?

- What?

(Tammy laughs) - You mean they're gone?

- No.

- No.

We're just the fool for the next generation, the next people to carry it on.

We would love for it to stay here forever.

It's very gratifying- - [Tammy] Yeah.

- [Janine] To know that just by serving a slice of pizza, or wings, how much impact that that causes on someone's life.

It's just pizza.

- [Tammy] Yeah.

- [Janine] But it means so much to so many people.