Gorm Wisweh (born in Svaneke, Denmark) is a Danish TV-cook, cookbook author, and restauranteur.
Wisweh began to bake pizzas in his mother's café in Svaneke on the island of Bornholm in 2003. [1] In 2008, he and five others opened the Italian restaurant Magstræde 16, on Magstræde in Copenhagen, where he acted as the head chef. [2]
He founded Gorm's Pizza, a chain of pizza restaurants, which has earned him the nickname "the Pizza King" (Danish : Pizzakongen) in the Danish media. [3] [4] The first Gorm's outside Copenhagen opened in Brandts Klædefabrik in Odense in May 2017. [2] A 67% share of the company was acquired by Orkla in 2018. [5] The opening of eight new restaurants was announced after the acquisition. [6] In 2021, the chain's founders reacquired a controlling stake in the company. [7]
Gorm was born in Svaneke on Bornholm, where his parents owned the local hotel. He started making pizzas for his friends when he was 11 or 12 years old. He moved to Copenhagen to study, but came back to Bornholm to make pizzas in his mother's cafe. [8] He was married in 2018 and has two children. [9]