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William Willy Theisen is a restaurant entrepreneur from Omaha Nebraska born in Chicago and raised in Clinton Iowa. He was the founder andformer owner of Godfathers Pizza a popular pizzeria chain that has locations in over 40 states. Theisen got the idea to start a pizza chain when he was running his own bar called Wild Willys. He noticed many of his customers carried pizza from a pizza restaurant next door into his bar to eat it.