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Why short videos are wildly popular over social media
Pizza Today has been singing the praises of online videos for a while now. With Vine’s 8-seond and Instagram’s 15-second video apps that are able to produce high quality, stop-motion video, you can get creative in your pizzeria. The popul...
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Mobile pizza units add sales, street cred
Lloyd Helber owns six Pizza Cottage restaurants located throughout Central Ohio, but ask him about the wave of the future and he’ll tell you mobile kitchens. “Food trucks are the next generation of restaurant,” says Helber, who launched his fir...
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Pizzeria Social Media Marketing
buy essay Pizza Media Facebook.com/PizzaToday • Twitter.com/PizzaToday • Instagram.com/PizzaToday • Youtube.com/PizzaTodayMagazine PizzaToday.Tumblr.com • Twitter.com/PizzaExpo • Facebook.com/PizzaExpo • iPad • Google Play • Vine: @Pi...
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5 quick, painless ways to make social media marketing easy
Social media is a powerful marketing tool. With all of the ins and outs of running a restaurant, how can you keep up social media that is active 24/7? Huffington Post offers five ways to make your social media marketing work for you. They include: Ke...
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21 Ways to wear pizza with pride
Have you noticed all of the pizza swag that people sport these days? From buttons, T-shirts and hats to earrings and cell phone cases, pizza fans are wearing their favorite food with pride. Buzzfeed has introduced “21 Ways to Wear Pizza with Pride....
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Taste of Chicago in full swing, other cities follow suit
Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria is churning out so much pizza from its four ovens at Taste of Chicago this week, it would make brick-and-mortar restaurants envious. The Windy City food festival attracts more than million visitors each year. From large m...
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Pizza Experts Weigh in on Creating a Disaster Preparedness Plan
Whether it’s a hurricane that pounds a coastal region, a fire that destroys an entire city block or a snowstorm that shuts down the town for a week, no one likes to think of potential disasters that could close restaurant doors for several days –...
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PIZZERIAS SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING BEST OF JUNE 2013
PIZZA MEDIA: Facebook.com/PizzaToday • Twitter.com/PizzaToday • Instagram.com/PizzaToday •Youtube.com/PizzaTodayMagazine • PizzaToday.Tumblr.com • Twitter.com/PizzaExpo • Facebook.com/PizzaExpo • iPad • Google Play • Vine: @PizzaTod...
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Papa John apologizes for delivery driver’s racist rant on customer’s phone
Monday, Papa John’s Chairman and CEO John Schnatter posted an apology on Facebook after a Florida customer received a racist rant on his voicemail. After delivering pizza to the customer, a driver accidentally called the Florida man, leaving a near...
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Social Media: Pizza Tweets and Feeds
Pizza Tweets Denver Pizza Company @DenverPizzaCo Stop in soon for our Lunch Deal. Monday-Friday until 3pm. $5 for a personal pizza, 2 toppings, and a drink. Why it works: Posting a special the day of doesn’t give customers a whole lot of time to pl...
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Employee Incentives: Winning Attitudes
Pizza Antica was not selling much bottled mineral water. The servers at the four-unit concept, part of the Bacchus Management Group of restaurants in San Francisco, were not even mentioning bottled water to customers. So Pizza Antica launched the Bot...
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Ask Big Dave: Employee morale
Q: I have a large group meet here on Thursdays, and they spend a lot of money. My staff gets bummed when they come because it’s frantic for a few hours. What gives? A: One of my customer service counter people turned to the kitchen and announced th...