Minneapolis, Minnesota When Rose and Jim Totino opened their first pizzeria in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1951, they probably never imagined that they'd be serving up 300 million Totino's Party Pizzas each year.

1968 The Pizza Roll was the apparent brainchild of Jeno Paulucci, who invented them in 1968 and sold them as Jeno's Pizza Rolls until the Pillsbury company bought the rights in 1985. And from Pillsbury came Totino's Pizza Rolls, also otherwise known as the absolute superstar of all Pizza Rolls in every frozen food category.

They also founded a frozen-pizza manufacturing company. The Totinos eventually sold their frozen pizza business to the Pillsbury Company, where Rose Totino was named as vice-president. Totino's brand was acquired by General Mills with its purchase of Pillsbury.

Wellston, Ohio General Mills is investing $100 million to expand its Wellston, Ohio, facility, which manufactures Totino's pizza and pizza rolls.

They were created in Duluth, Minnesota, United States, by food industry entrepreneur Jeno Paulucci, who specialized in canned and frozen Chinese food. Jeno's began using the Pizza Rolls trademark in 1967. In 1985, Paulucci sold Jeno's to Pillsbury, which owned Totino's pizza.

entrepreneur Jeno Paulucci Totino's Pizza Rolls are a frozen food product created by food industry entrepreneur Jeno Paulucci, who specialized in frozen Chinese food, in 1951. After Jeno's sold the brand in 1985, it was acquired by Pillsbury which owned Totino's pizza In 1993, Jeno's Pizza Rolls were rebranded as Totino's Pizza Rolls.

A decade later the Totinos had the idea to offer frozen pizzas to go, so customers could bake the pizza at home. By the 1970s, the Totino frozen pizza was the top-selling frozen pizza in the United States, sold as Totino's Pizza. Rose Totino patented a dough product specifically designed for frozen pizza in 1979.

Married couple Rose and Jim Totino began mass-producing frozen pizzas from a plant in St. Louis Park, Minnesota in 1962. (A decade earlier, when the couple took out a loan to open an Italian restaurant in Minnesota, Rose had to bake a pizza for her bank's loan officer because he'd never heard of pizza.)

Married couple Rose and Jim Totino began mass-producing frozen pizzas from a plant in St. Louis Park, Minnesota in 1962. (A decade earlier, when the couple took out a loan to open an Italian restaurant in Minnesota, Rose had to bake a pizza for her bank's loan officer because he'd never heard of pizza.)

Here are some interesting facts about the first pizza roll inventions:

• The pizza roll was first invented by Jeno Paulucci in 1968.
• Traditional pizza dough is used to make pizza rolls, which are then baked to perfection with cheese, pepperoni, chicken, or steak.

Jeno Paulucci created the first pizza roll in the 1960s. He stuffed Chinese egg rolls with pizza toppings instead of the traditional Asian filling. In 1968, he patented the product and sold it to the Pillsbury Company. Later, the company changed its name to Totino's, which it still manufactures today.

The pizza roll was first invented by Jeno Paulucci in 1968. He made a company called Jeno's Pizza Rolls, which was later sold to Pillsbury and they changed the name to Totino's. He first made them by replacing the inside filling of an egg roll with pizza toppings.