Home Slice Pizza Perry owners reflect on first month in business 

PERRY — Home Slice Pizza Perry, located at 717 Commerce St., has been open for about a month and the community has welcomed them with open arms. Owners Paul and LeAnn Register’s vision for Home Slice Pizza would be a place to sit down, relax and enjoy pizza. According to them, it is just that. 

Living in Kathleen, Paul Register currently works in sales, and LeAnn Register was a nurse before the business took off. 

“Everybody likes pizza and wings, but we wanted an atmosphere that is super family-friendly,” Paul Register said. “We have seven kids at the house, so we wanted a place with not only great food, but a place where they and their friends could hang out.” 

Home Slice Pizza has a wide variety on the menu. They specialize in brick oven pizza and wings. 

“[Brick oven pizza] was our main focus and we wanted to do wings really well,” he said. 

Their appetizers include breadsticks, garlic knots, cheese sticks and their fan-favorite pepperoni rolls. 

Home Slice Pizza also offers calzones, salads, stromboli and pastas. For dessert, they have chocolate chip cookies, cheesecake and sweet stix. 

LeAnn Register said their dough is made fresh every day, as well as the produce. 

Home Slice Pizza has 14, 16, and 18-inch pizzas for customers to choose from, as well as a build-your-own option. Paul Register said they also have specialty pizzas like the Hawaiian-style “Perrydise Pizza.” Other specialty pizzas include Buffalo chicken, a taco pizza and the “Home Slice,” which, according to the owners, has almost everything on it.  

LeAnn Register added the taco pizza comes with a taco kit so that customers can make their taco pizza however they want. 

Home Slice Pizza offers a lunch special Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., which includes two slices and a drink. Paul Register said this idea was to get the lunch crowd in and out due to the time it takes to cook a brick oven pizza. 

“The brick oven can take about 20 minutes if not more,” he said. “If you’re coming for a quick pizza it’s a little harder when you put it into the brick oven. Our to-go orders may take a little while longer, so just call ahead,” LeAnn Register said. 

According to the Registers, the amount of business they have received in one month has exceeded their expectations. 

“I don’t know if we were expecting much at all, and I don’t know if we knew what we were getting ourselves into, but it has been great,” LeAnn Register said. “Perry locals were ready for us.” 

Paul Register said the business side of it has been so far, so good and more than what he could have imagined. The response from the public to Home Slice Pizza has been great as well. 

“We are pretty active at Second Baptist and are involved with sports, so we thought we would have a lot of customers that we knew, but it far exceeded our expectations. [We get] people we’ve never seen before,” he said. 

Owning a business, in general, can have its ups and downs. 

“The worst part about it for me is the time away from home right now. The best part about it is the people,” he said. “The vision is at some point for that to not be the case.”  Paul Register said Home Slice Pizza being a brick oven kind of sets them apart from the other pizza places in town, as well as the way they do their wings. 

“We just really wanted to have a family-friendly atmosphere, so we don’t sell any beer or alcohol. Will we ever? I don’t know because we’re so busy right now,” he said. “We’re kinda unique in that we have a large space for you and your friends to meet.” 

The Registers also want to be more familiar with the people who step foot in their restaurant. 

“We want to know the people that come in here. We want to meet them and be able to serve them,” LeAnn Register said. “Our family is built on service to others and [Home Slice Pizza Perry] just goes along with that.” 

Home Slice Pizza Perry is open Monday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. and is closed on Sundays. To learn more about the restaurant, go to homeslicepizzaperry.com/.