Javi Lushaj, left, and her mother, Mirsada, co-owner of Hysen’s Nizza Pizza, work at the Colleyville location.[/caption]Mirsada Lushaj, co-owner of Hysen’s Nizza Pizza, said she believes if a person has a passion for something, no matter where he goes, he will succeed if he is dedicated.Mirsada and her husband, Hysen, found out first hand how far their passion for creating quality pizza and Italian food could take them when they moved from New York City to Texas in 1997.Prior to moving to Texas, the Lushajes were working at the original Nizza Pizza, which opened in 1975 in New York City near Union Square. However, Mirsada said city life started to become too much for the couple and their young children.“We had a lot of family members that had already relocated to Texas, and we thought it would be a better place to raise our children,” she said. “Raising four kids in [New York City] is really expensive, and the city life can be wild, which isn’t the best for children. Not to mention our restaurant was located downtown in Manhattan, New York, at 192 Third Ave.”Mirsada said once she arrived in Texas she realized that Texas would provide her with more opportunities and a booming economy. One thing she noticed was the lack of pizza restaurants.“When I first moved here I was like, ‘Where are the pizza places?’” she said. “We weren’t used to not seeing one on every corner like we did in New York. Noticing that made us say we really need to bring [Nizza Pizza] here. They need a good pizza place here.”The Lushajes would open their first location in Fort Worth; the location in Colleyville on Glade Road was established in 2013.“In July it will be two years [since] we opened the Colleyville location,” she said. “We decided we should open a location here because we had people driving from Grapevine to our Fort Worth location, and we had a lot of recommendations to locate another one here. We also live in this area so that made the decision easier.”Mirsada and her daughter, Javi, work at the Colleyville location, and Hysen and their son work at the Fort Worth location.“We are family-owned and-operated, and that’s how it will stay,” Mirsada said. “Our recipes for our sauces and cheeses have been handed down generation after generation. We are very specific with how we make our cheese and sauces. Even though it may be cheaper to use different ingredients or cheaper options we don’t want to do that. It’s never going to taste the same if you don’t use the same ingredients, and we want to make sure it remains perfect.”

“One of the things that we added to our menu that we didn’t have when we first opened is seafood. We offer a lot of entrees with shrimp. Texans love it.”– Mirsada Lushaj, owner

Mirsada said her dressings and sauces are so popular that customers often ask her to bottle them and sell them.Customers can try the Lushaj’s creamy Italian, original or spicy blue cheese dressing on the popular Nizza’s Antipasta Salad ($6.95–$8.95) made with salami, ham, pepperoni and provolone cheese.Another dish that highlights the Lushaj’s sauces and Italian flair is the Deep-Dish Lasagna Pizza that can be bought by the slice ($4.95) or by the pie ($24.95). Mirsada said the pizza offers customers a meal they cannot get anywhere else.Nizza Pizza also delivers within 5 miles of both of the locations and caters.Although the Lushajes like to stick to their Italian roots, they do change things up on the menu from time to time.“One of the things that we added to our menu that we didn’t have when we first opened is seafood,” she said. “We offer a lot of entrees with shrimp. Texans love it.”