The concept behind the Pittsburgh Pie Guy is simple: Make good pies that people want to eat.
The business plan was simple, too, if a little unusual. Two philosophy students, Louis Butler and Wren McGalliard, had $300, no formal culinary training and no business experience.
To translate into pie vernacular: Their plan to make dough looked a little flaky.
But less than a year later, the Pittsburgh Pie Guy has turned a profit, has regular customers and Mr. Butler is now employed full time by the still-mobile business.
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