Millville Spotlight: Paradise Pizza

Photo of Star Yaman by Bill Horin/ArtC. Story by Rob Laymon/ArtC.

No one says making pizza leads to wandering. You don’t hear folk songs about itinerant pizza-making nomads lured by the sound of train whistles, or riding town-to-town in the circuit of pie-spinning jamborees.

Nevertheless, Paradise Pizza's Star Yaman has been around. Yaman has worked at restaurants and diners for 35 years, in such a variety of locations it would make your head spin. The common theme was pizza. She worked in diners for a while but prefers pizza restaurants. She was a General Manager at Pats Pizza, a chain of 50 shops in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, for 25 years.

“Every time they opened a new one, it seemed, I was there,” she said. “I was at the Lancaster location for 14 years.”

In 2016 she opened her own restaurant, now called Paradise Pizza, once called Four Seasons Pizza Restaurant, at 2 E. Main Street, and is happy to be venturing no further.

“I don’t want to move anymore,” she said. “Let me do my own thing.”

It turns out that Yaman’s own thing is a menu filled with wraps, classic Italian dishes, cold and hot subs and sandwiches, stromboli, calzones, gourmet pizza, burgers, classic clubs and much else. A new menu just went up, with a change or two in item particulars, but no change at all to the depth of deliciousness.

All this adds up to a lot of time spent working, but it’s working in the service of something Yaman loves.

“Yeah, I have been working seven days a week, and many hours a day, in addition to being a mother, and it’s hard. But it’s worth it.”

Paradise Pizza

2 E. Main St Millville, NJ

(856) 300-5570