TULSA, Okla. — At Two 2’s Pi House, they’re not only baking pizza pies, they’re also rebuilding lives.
“Trial and error. We did it right. We did it so many times wrong first though,” said Matthew West, owner of Two 2’s Pi House.
West got everything he needed to run his pizza business at 7th and Sheridan. He got the license, the supplies and a heavy brick oven too.
“We just built this to just show up and work a job and our job just turned into our lives and our lives are really really great,” West said.
His dough-tossing skills were learned at an exclusive eatery that caters to a specific crowd, where West spent some time in Stringtown at the Oklahoma Department of Corrections.
“It took a really long time for me to get my life back on course. It took a very long time. It’s really hard out here, but the people around me made it possible,” West said.
Those people around him are also former felons, who walked through fire together on the outside.
“We found out that we cook well together. We worked well together and that grew and blossomed,” said West. “This isn’t our second chance. This is our fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth chances.”