Italian restaurant raises money for NSW Rural Fire Service by baking Australia’s longest pizza

A popular Italian restaurant has broken the record for the longest pizza in Australia to raise money for hardworking firefighters.

The Pellegrini restaurant in Sydney’s south west cooked the 100 metre-long pizza on Sunday, which weighed 400 kilograms. 

More than 50 workers created the huge Margherita pizza and every slice was sold for a gold coin to raise money for NSW Rural Fire Service. 

Restaurant manager Giovanni Convertino told Daily Mail Australia that creating the delicious pizza was not an easy task.  

‘We started to prepare the pizza from 5:30am and we finally got to the 100 metre mark at 11:30am,’ he said.

‘We were going after the Australia record, the world record was in Italy and that one was over 600 metres.’ 

Members of the NSW Rural Fire Service to attended the gathering who collected a gold coin donation for each slice.

‘The firefighters came with the truck and the kids loved it it was such a great time,’ he said.

The process involved rolling one metre sections of dough and then baking them into five metre lengths.

Each part was then carefully taken out outside to the main table where it received its final decoration. 

Mr Convertino said community moral was low due to the devastating impact of the bushfires and the restaurant wanted to do something to help raise spirits.

‘There were people jogging past were stopping and going “hey what is going on,” we were all having such a great time,’ he said.

The process involved rolling one metre sections of dough and then baking them into five metre lengths

Each part was then carefully taken out outside to the main table where it received its final decoration