The recipe for increasing guest frequency and earning returning customers Dan Costello understands regularly returning customers remain the lifeblood of any restaurant business. “If you’re one and done with customers, then it’s not a sustainable business model,” says...
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Picnic to Showcase Its Acclaimed Automated Pizza Assembly Robot at Pizza Expo
Expo Attendees Will Experience Pizza Made by A System Producing 300 Pies an Hour Using AI, Cloud, Automation Tech and Robotics-as-a-Service Seattle-based Picnic, an innovator of food production technology and Robotics-as-a-Service (RaaS) solutions, will demonstrate...
Self-Pour Technology: Pizza’s New Best Friend
PourMyBeer is a global market leader for self-pour beverage technology. Pizza restaurants, bars and others who use PourMyBeer enable their customers to become their own bartenders. Patrons take control of which beers, wines, cocktails or even kombucha, they pour in...
Prolific Point of Sale
All in One Business Management Software Dine in / Take out / Delivery Online Ordering Mobile for Events Inventory Tracking and Modifiers Recipe Tracking Invoicing for Corporate Parties Scheduling for future orders and parties Reporting P&L, re-order,...
Caputo Cheese Introduces Elevated Cow CBD-Infused Fresh Mozzarella
Melrose Park, IL. Award-winning Caputo Cheese is set to launch Elevated Cow (www.elevatedcow.com), a new brand of CBD-infused crafted fresh mozzarella. The new range of unique cheese is created with 100% organic hemp sourced in the United States, lab tested and...
Burke Corporation Launches New Plant-Based Alternatives
NEVADA, Iowa (February 7, 2020) Burke Corp. (Nevada, Iowa) a subsidiary of Hormel Foods Corporation (NYSE: HRL) and an industry leader in foodservice fully cooked meat toppings and ingredients, announced the launch of newBurke Alternatives plant-based products...
Hobart to Again Host Custom-Designed Mixer Giveaway at the International Pizza Expo
TROY, Ohio (January 27, 2020) — Hobart, the premium commercial food equipment manufacturer known for designing and building some of the most reliable, must-have equipment, is maintaining tradition this year at the International Pizza Expo. During the show in Las...
Man on the Street: “Sauce On Top”
The world’s highest rated pizzeria is doing it all wrong. Literally. The flagship pie at Pepe in Grani, located just 30 km north of Naples, is called the Margherita ha Sbagliata, which means “Margherita Made Wrong.” Among the pizza’s multiple abuses, perhaps the most...
Sidewalk Seating: Dining Right-of-Way
Getting a sidewalk permit for outdoor seating is a complex process, but can result in higher revenues Outdoor seating can help a pizzeria accommodate more people during busy times, and it can also attract more customers. A full patio makes the place seem inviting, and...
Vegetables on Pizza: V-edgy
Take vegetable toppings to rockstar status Over the years of being in the pizza business I’ve realized that there are three types of people: there are pizza people, people who think they are pizza people and others. You can tell right away what category someone falls...
Taking stock of third-party delivery contracts
Read carefully before signing on the dotted line Amid a mounting driver shortage and an increasingly competitive landscape, Papa John’s – that industry behemoth that long enjoyed a seemingly endless army of delivery drivers – has done what some would have once termed...
Six Ways to be Transparent
Build customer relationships based on trust Being clear and open with customers can draw them in and keep them coming back. Among consumers, 67 percent say a good reputation may entice them to try a product from a trustworthy company, according to the 2019 Edelman...












