They Didn't Name It King By Accident.

There is a particular kind of respect that South Jersey gives to a pizza place. It isn't given easily. It isn't bought with a loyalty app or a discount coupon or a glossy ad in a magazine. It's earned — one pie at a time, one honest transaction at a time — until eventually the neighborhood just decides: this is the one.

The Famous & Original King of Pizza earned it. And it started with a Sicilian immigrant who had the right idea and the work ethic to back it up.

When the Gazette sat down with Anthony Scaturro, we weren't there to review the pizza. We were there because of something Chris Borsello — one of South Jersey's most trusted tradesmen, CMEC — said to us almost without thinking, in the middle of talking about something else entirely. We asked him who he trusted. Who he recommended. And without hesitating, without spinning it, without any buildup, he said: "Anthony Scaturro, King Pizza."

In South Jersey, that's the kind of recommendation that means something.

It Started With Frank.

Frank Scaturro came to the United States from Sicily in 1963. He eventually made his way to South Jersey — and built something that his family is still running today. The Famous & Original King of Pizza became a Cherry Hill fixture, the kind of place that gets woven into a community's routine the way only the best local spots do.

Today, Frank's children — Mario, Anthony, and Roseanna Scaturro — run the operation. That's not a footnote. That's the whole point. This is a family that stayed, kept the standard, and kept the doors open.

And they've been tested. In March 2004, a fire destroyed the original Cherry Hill location. They rebuilt. By October 2004, they were back open — with a menu expanded to include sandwiches, hoagies, and wings. The only thing left from the original building is the iconic 1960s road sign. It's still standing out front today. Make of that what you will.

The Name Says Everything.

You don't put "King" in the name of your pizza place and expect it to be a throwaway. It's a statement. A declaration. And the Scaturro family has been backing it up for decades.

What makes the Famous & Original King of Pizza what it is isn't a secret formula. It's the combination of things that sound simple until you try to actually maintain them over years — and years — of business. The dough is right. The sauce is right. The cheese is right. The oven temperature is right. And the people behind the counter actually care whether the box you walk out with is something you're going to be happy about when you open it at home.

That last part is rarer than it sounds.

What a South Jersey Pizza Place Really Is.

People who didn't grow up here sometimes underestimate what a local pizza shop is to a South Jersey neighborhood. It isn't just food. It's where you go on Friday nights when nobody feels like cooking. It's where the team goes after the game. It's the first place you call when you need to feed twenty people fast and you know it has to be good. It's comfort, convenience, and community wrapped in a cardboard box.

The places that earn that role don't get there by accident. They get there by showing up consistently. By not cutting corners when they could get away with it. By treating customers like neighbors — because in South Jersey, they often literally are.

The Scaturro family understood that from the beginning. And that's why King Pizza is the kind of place where you walk in after a few years away and someone still recognizes you. Where the order you used to always get is somehow still right. Where the place itself feels like proof that some things in the neighborhood haven't changed, even when everything else around them has.

The family's commitment to quality goes even deeper than the pizzeria itself. Over the years, the Scaturros started their own food distributorship — Turro Foods — to ensure consistent quality for their customers. They've also owned and operated Scaturro's Italian Restaurant in Marlton, NJ. This is a family that takes what they do seriously enough to control it at every level.

Three Locations, One Standard.

The famous Cherry Hill flagship on Route 70 is where it all started — and it's still the one people drive out of their way to visit. But the Scaturro family has expanded the business thoughtfully over the years, adding a Berlin location on South White Horse Pike and a spot at Philadelphia International Airport, Terminal D. If you're flying out of Philly and you know, you know.

The Gazette Standard.

We don't feature businesses because they paid us to. We feature businesses because they're worth featuring — because there's a real story behind the name, and because people in this community deserve to know about the people and places that are quietly doing things right.

The Famous & Original King of Pizza qualifies on every front. The product is real. The family behind it is one of the good ones. And the track record speaks for itself in the only way that matters — a loyal following that comes back, recommends the place to others, and considers it part of what makes South Jersey home.

If you haven't been in a while, go back. If you've never been, now you know. And if you're looking for proof that South Jersey still has businesses built on something real — this is it.

The Gazette's rule is simple: we only spotlight businesses we'd actually send our own readers to. The Famous & Original King of Pizza passes that test without question. It's been passing it for decades.