Yesterday, Anu and I were out with friends in the vicinity of Seattle downtown, and we discovered this excellent pizza restaurant called MOTO Pizza. It’s a hidden gem to be sure, not easy to find when you’re walking by. Great Detroit-style deep dish pizza (with many vegetarian options), along with a cool ambiance.

From what I can tell from their website, they only started operations post-2020 (The Great Pandemic of the 21st century) beginning with their West Seattle location, and now have 5 stores with 2 more “coming soon”. That sounds great — they even have a Bellevue Square store — but I sometimes worry about cafes and restaurants, especially the good ones, expanding too fast, then discovering that they can’t carry the risk of inflation, economic slowdown, or any cooling of customer interest.