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Dough Production/Development
How to Make a Sourdough Starter | Knead to Know
A Step-by-step Guide to Making a Sourdough Starter (and Maintaining One) Sourdough isn’t for everyone. Making it, eating it, maintaining it. There are plenty of preferments that can add great complexity, flavor and texture to your dough – and ext...
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Industry News
Vocelli Pizza Launches ‘Pizza With Purpose’
Vocelli Pizza Partners With The Jerome Bettis’ Bus Stops Here Foundation to Launch ‘Pizza With Purpose’ PITTSBURGH (Aug. 5, 2025) – Vocelli Pizza is proud to announce a new community initiative in partnership with The Jerome Bettis “Bus St...
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Operations
Launching a Mobile Pizzeria: Pricing Pizzas (Part 11)
(Editor’s note: This is the 11th installment in a series about opening a mobile pizzeria by Jason Cipriani, co-owner of Sips & Pies. You can read the other articles here.) My family eats a lot of pizza. Prior to our journey of opening a mobi...
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Leona’s Pizzeria Celebrates 75 Years With 75-Cent Pizza on Aug. 14
Chicago icon honors milestone with deals and giveaways for longtime fans CHICAGO (Aug. 4, 2025) – Leona’s Pizzeria & Restaurant, the veteran-owned Chicago favorite known for serving “Chicago’s Original Pizza,” is celebrating its 75th an...
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Menu Development
Building a Seasonal Pizza Menu That Actually Works
Chris Decker of Truly Pizza Highlights Classic Flavors in New Ways While some pizzeria owners roll out seasonal menus customers love, others struggle to move beyond a classic pepperoni pie. The secret isn’t just creativity, it’s strategy, timing ...
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PizzaForno Heats Up West Coast Expansion with 24/7 Pizza Vending Machines at Southern California College Campuses
PizzaForno rolls out across LA City College, Rio Hondo College and Long Beach State to address the student demand for budget-friendly, fresh-baked pizza LOS ANGELES (Aug.1, 2025) – PizzaForno, North America’s pioneering automated pizzeria kno...
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Salvatore ‘Tore’ Trupiano Wins California Pizza Contest With ‘Creamery Crown’ Pizza
Edward Stalewski of Mercurio’s and Marcus Medina of Hella Pie Pizza Co. Claim Pizza Category Wins After submitting applications to participate in the California Pizza Contest for seven years, Salvatore “Tore” Trupiano is heading back to San Die...
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Menu Development
Green Season | Fresh Green Chile Menu Ideas
The smoky flavor of green chiles makes a welcome addition to appetizers, pizzas and more New Mexico’s Hatch Valley is known as the chile capital of the world. Starting in late July or early August, visitors travel to New Mexico to experience “gre...
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Menu Development
Bar Bites | Appetizer Ideas from Bar Menus
These dough-based small plates are sure to please Bar food is addictive. From chicken wings and mozzarella sticks to fried pickles, nachos and sliders, customers are looking for a prequel to their pizza main event. Including bar bites on your menu ca...
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Brand & Marketing
Answering your pizza fans’ APP-etite
Build out your restaurant ordering app to engage with your customers Third-party ordering apps have found enormous success and restaurant apps can too. It may be time to develop or update your first-party channel to capture app users. The reason? Foo...
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Industry News
Kevin King, President and CEO of Donatos Pizza, is Coming to Pizza Expo Columbus!
Donatos Pizza President and CEO Kevin King tapped to give Keynote Address at Pizza Expo Columbus We’re excited to announce that Kevin King will be the keynote speaker for the inaugural Pizza Expo Columbus, which will take place Oct. 26-27 at The Gr...
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Pizzeria of the Year | Mattenga’s Pizzeria! | Commentary
I want to take this opportunity to be the first to congratulate Matt and Hengam Stanfield. The co-founders of Mattenga’s Pizzeria in San Antonio are a pizza power couple like no other. They have steadily grown their Texas-based pizza company into a...