Dogtown Pizza started, as many small businesses do, in the family kitchen.
Rick Schaper remembers first making pizzas with his dad when he was 6 or 7 years old. It was 14 pies at a time and a family affair from the outset.
His father, also named Rick Schaper, 58, built the frozen pizza business from the ground up by knocking on the doors of small neighborhood grocers, asking for freezer space and pushing past countless nos…