A popular Italian restaurant has broken the record for the longest pizza in Australia to raise money for hardworking firefighters.<br /><br />The Pellegrini restaurant in Sydney's south west cooked the 100 metre-long pizza on Sunday, which weighed 400 kilograms. <br /><br />More than 50 workers created the huge Margherita pizza and every slice was sold for a gold coin to raise money for NSW Rural Fire Service.<br />Restaurant manager Giovanni Convertino told Daily Mail Australia that creating the delicious pizza was not an easy task.<br />'We started to prepare the pizza from 5:30am and we finally got to the 100 metre mark at 11:30am,' he said.<br /><br />'We were going after the Australia record, the world record was in Italy and that one was over 600 metres.' <br /><br />Members of the NSW Rural Fire Service to attended the gathering who collected a gold coin donation for each slice.<br />'The firefighters came with the truck and the kids loved it it was such a great time,' he said.<br /><br />The process involved rolling one metre sections of dough and then baking them into five metre lengths.<br /><br />Each part was then carefully taken out outside to the main table where it received its final decoration. <br /><br />Mr Convertino said community moral was low due to the devastating impact of the bushfires and the restaurant wanted to do something to help raise spirits.<br /><br />'There were people jogging past were stopping and going "hey what is going on," we were all having such a great time,' he said.<br />
