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Detroit Style Pizza: A Guide to Detroit Pizza
Discover Detroit-Style Pizza Detroit style pizza is a square, deep dish pizza that is known for its racing stripes sauce on top, cheese crust crown and light crust. Whether you call them red tops or square pizza, Detroit-style pizza is a unique pizza style that hast become one of the hottest pizza styles and one […]
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Smoked Pizza Toppings: The Smoke Ridge Boys
“True barbeque in my opinion is smoking meat. It’s an art form and it’s tricky to get just right.” — Brad Rocco, 2014 World Pizza Champion, Smoked Portobello and Pepperoni Pizza Smoking is one of the oldest techniques for changing the flavo...
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How to make vegan/plant-based options financially feasible
The Dollars and Sense of Plant-based in Pizzerias The plant-based revolution has arrived. We all know this by now. If it wasn’t clear before, look no further than how many plant-based vendors there were at the 2021 International Pizza Expo in Augus...
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Five Plant-based Items to Add to Your Restaurant Menu
Homemade Vegetarian Vegan Buffalo Chicken Wings with Ranch These days you can’t go anywhere or read anything about the food industry without hearing the phrase “plant-based”. For most in the restaurant business this may seem like a “trend” ...
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The Windy City’s signature dish, the Italian Beef Sandwich
Found the Beef Chicago is visited for many reasons: world renowned museums, innovative and jaw dropping architecture, some of the most popular blues clubs in the country, Michael Jordan, Wrigley Field… the list goes on. But like any other city in t...
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The Burrata Obsession
Burrata — how to add this simple, yet lavish ingredient to your menu What’s better than house-made fresh mozzarella? Homemade fresh mozzarella filled with cream. That’s right, I’m talking about burrata. The creamy, rich, silky smooth cow’s ...
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Warm up your winter menu with easy, low-cost soups
Easy, low-cost soups for winter menus I love soup. Always have. As a young child my winters were filled with my mother’s homemade chili and vegetable soup. Chicken noodle soup from grandma when you were sick. Taco soup in the fall. Tomato soup with...
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New Ideas for Onions in Your Pizzeria
Onion Blings Onions. Yes, you know, those giant mesh bags that sit in your walk-in like a second-string quarterback? With a little imagination, it could be time to play this transformative vegetable to make pizzas and pastas more exciting. For cent...
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Man on the Street: The Future is Plant Based
Back in May, one of the most lavish restaurants in the world announced its decision to switch to a plant-based menu. Eleven Madison Park has four stars from the New York Times and three stars from the Michelin guide, which they’ve earned by serving...
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Stuffed Shells are Back!
The Right Stuff If stuffed shells were automobiles, they would be a flock of big, bright pink SUVs driving around town. In any restaurant, the delivery of this oversized, stuffed and sauced pasta is just as awesome a sight and usually followed by smi...
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Pizza Today Team sounds off on pan pizza craze
PANdemonium: Pan Style Pizzas Pan pizza is hot right now. We are seeing an influx of a variety of pan pizzas being added to menus all over the country. There’s no better evidence of its rise than at this year’s International Pizza Challenge at ...
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Bacon Pizzas: Just Add Bacon
Bacon gives intense flavor, appeal to pizza I’ve always loved bacon as a pizza topping. It’s super versatile, for starters. Whether you’re loading up on meats, going the “supreme” route or working with lots of veggies, you can throw bacon i...
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Appetizer Dips: I Dip, You Dip, We Dip
Increase check averages with trending appetizer dips Appetizer dips may be one of the easiest items that you can add to your appetizer menu that will result in the broadest appeal. Hungry and hangry diners will gravitate towards the instant gratifica...