08/08/2025
Zander Frost writes: Julie (Hart) Murphy, the third-generation of the local Hart pizza-making family, plans to move her Queen of Harts Pizza across Lafayette Street to a larger space in the Noon Whistle Deli building.
READ: https://www.glensfallschronicle.com/harts-3rd-generation-steps-up/
“We officially bought it in April,” said Julie, adding that she may be the last Hart family member making pizza. “I’m the last standing one in the game.”
The Harts started what is now Talk of the Town in Glens Falls and long operated The Harvest in Queensbury.
Julie said she managed The Harvest from 2000 to 2015 before opening Queen of Harts in 2016.
“I knew there was a hole that needed to be filled, and it was with delivery for this kind of pizza,” she says. “A lot of people want the pizza delivered, and they don’t want to go pick it up.”
Julie’s business model is not focused on sit-down: it’s roughly 50% delivery, 25% pick up and 25% take-and-bake.
The take-and-bakes are frozen; customers heat them in their ovens at home.
“I sell a lot of take-and-bakes. People take them all over this country,” she said, adding that a recent customer “came in with a cooler. He bought 25 pizzas, and he drove them down to Georgia.”
Julie said there are myriad reasons for making the move across Lafayette Street.
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