Columbus-style pizza has a circular thin crust with a bottom dusting of cornmeal and toppings that meet the edges. It is also served with a party cut — that's a round pizza cut into rectangular strips instead of wedges. Massey's Pizza has set the standard for the style since the 1950s.

The original patriarch, Papa Pete Corrova, in need of a name for his new business, looked to the sky and saw the answer on the side of an airplane. As the first restaurant to serve pizza in Columbus, and perhaps Ohio, TAT offered pizza to the public in 1934.