Golden Country Pizza Express is located on Highway 24 in Camp Point Illinois at 201 East Wood Street. The business was started in March 1987. Golden Country Pizza was developed two years earlier in a small restaurant in Golden Illinois called Golden Country Restaurant. After perfecting their own pizza sauce & dough, which they make fresh daily, they came up with the idea to take their pizza to customers in the small towns in the area.

They purchased a 14ft trailer, and designed the inside to make & bake pizza, then went on the road with a truck & trailer and a mobile phone. They took their pizza to a different small town in West Central Illinois each night, and Camp Point was one of those towns. Other towns were Mendon, Ursa, Liberty, Payson, Augusta, Bowen and Plymouth. They would pull into town on the same night each week at 4:00PM and make pizzas until 8:00 PM.

As business grew, and after selling their restaurant in Golden in 1989, they purchased and designed a permanent 24ft trailer to handle the increase in business in Camp Point. The permanent trailers was located at 307 E Wood on Highway 24. Now Pizza Express would be open 5 nights a week in Camp Point, and the larger trailer would serve as a commissary for the mobile trailer, which still traveled to other towns. With two ovens and more employees, the Pizza Express continued to grow in Camp Point. In June of 1995, a new larger mobile unit with two ovens was put into service to handle the increase in business in all other towns. On October 1995, Golden Country Pizza Express incorporated.

A new building was designed and built at 201 East Wood in Camp Point, to take the place of the 24 foot trailer which the business had outgrown. The new Golden Country Pizza Express building opened in June 1997 with four ovens to handle the growing business in Camp Point. The new building would also store and service their larger mobile unit from it’s drive-through garage area. Now Pizza Express has 10 employees, a small eat-in dining area, a drive-up window, and new menu items like Buffalo Wings, Dessert Pizza and a Double Crust Chicago Style Pizza.

A franchise unit was opened in April of 1997 based in Perry, Illinois, South of Mt. Sterling. This unit serves the towns of Perry, Chopin, Griggsville, Meredosia, and Barry. Golden Country Pizza Express Mobile units now serve 10 small towns in Western Illinois.

We thank our customers for their continued patronage, and plan to continue to give them friendly small town service and "Pizza made with Homemade Pride".