The Story Behind The Slice
In 2020, like most people, Gearóid found himself stuck at home. Cooking became the daily outlet, but it wasn’t new. Having grown up in a family of restaurateurs, food was already in his DNA. What was new, though, was the obsession with Neapolitan pizza.
The goal was simple: recreate that proper, blistered-edge, fire-cooked flavour at home. After months of recipe testing, flour-dusted trial and error, and encouragement from family and friends, the idea to launch something real took shape.
Happy Dough Lucky opened in early 2021 as a humble pop-up — a tiny hatch run by Gearóid and his sisters, Alannah and Tara, with their first team member Jayson (who’s still with us today). Dough was limited. Posts went out when it was available. And somehow, we sold out most nights.
That little hatch kickstarted everything.