Village People Pizza is the brainchild of Emily and Andrea Bonotto. The pair has been serving the local lismore community since moving to the area in 2006. They opened and operated Il Carretto wood fired Pizza from 2010 to 2019. Dirtys Burger Bar and craft beer fro 2017 to 2022. Village People Cafes in Goonellabah and Lismore CBD in 2022 to 2024 and now operate Village People Pizza. A popular take away pizza shop, making the only traditional italian pizza in Lismore.  Andrea did his first sourdough baking course back in 1999 but it wasn't until moving to Lismore in 2006 that he started regularly baking. In 2010 he build a woodfired oven on top of a trailer and started serving pizza in the byron hinterland. This was the beginning of the "pop up" scene and the food truck scene in the area and the pizza night became popular with locals and tourist. 
Andrea makes pizza using local NSW grown sustainable flours, fermented using a sourdough culture. He has studied pizza making in Italy and the pizza is similar to the one he grew up with back in Italy before moving to Australia in 2001. Andrea has also a history in hospitality, his grandmother was a chef who owend and operated several restaurants. His family also owned a hotel in Vicenza where Andrea got his first job in the cafe' and restaurant at a young age. His auntie and uncle own multiple butcheries and his father a pub. Andrea and Emily after loosing their popular  business, Dirtys,  in the 2022 Lismore flood, opened a new business in Goonellabah.