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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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Appetizers: Let’s Get It Started
Introduce new wow starters When Pizza Today’s 2019 Independent Pizzeria of Year chef/owner Nick Strawhecker of Dante presented us with a spread of shareable delicacies, I knew we were in for a special treat during a visit to sister restaurant, Forn...
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2020 Menu Guide
Get appetizer, pizza, main dish and dessert recipes to take your menu into the 2020s. Browse Pizza Today’s 2020 Menu Guide: Summertime Pie Get the Summertime Pie recipe. Parmesan Zucchini Sticks Get the Parmesan Zucchini Sticks re...
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Stuffed Pizzas: The Stuff of Legends
There’s more than one way to stuff a pizza Stuffed-crust pizzas isn’t a new idea. Pizza Hut has been one-upping its stuffed-crust pizza since it debuted in 1995. The pizza chain has rolled out bacon and cheese, grilled cheese and pepperoni stuffe...
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Man on the Street: “It Just Doesn’t Work”
Something’s wrong. The pizza you thought would be the star of your menu isn’t selling. Did you price it wrong? Is it too weird? Does it just taste terrible? As an entrepreneur, you’re constantly throwing ideas against the wall. Sometimes they s...
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Chicken Wings: Taking Flight
Wings remain as relevant as ever — here’s how to help sales soar I love wings. Something about the vinegary, spicy flavor tempts my taste buds in all the right ways. Baked, fried … doesn’t matter. Prefer them naked, but breaded will do in a p...
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The Climbers: Pizza Topping trends and how to cash in on them
There’s a pizza meme going around of the brutal scene in Casino where Joe Pesci is forced to watch his brother get whacked. However, instead of his brother, it’s pineapple going on pizza. The point of the meme is to show how traumatic it is t...
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Top That: Dollops add gusto to great pizzas
While I can’t remember the first time I ate a pizza with dollops of any cheese, I do remember the first one that wowed me. It was Tony Gemignani’s New Yorker at Pizza Rock in Sacramento I traveled to my first year at Pizza Today. The dollops of r...
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Melter Skeltor
Cheese combinations are on everyone’s minds these days I once went to see a baseball game with my son and a few friends. As we sat around the hotel pool after the game, a friend called to have some pizza delivered. The pizza came piping hot as al...
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Flatbread Pizza: The World is Flat
Flatbread pizzas provide operations a nice limited-time offering Flatbreads have been around thousands of years. Our early ancestors, once they learned to harness fire, took grain, water and salt and cooked the concoction on rocks heated by flames. T...
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Cauliflower Crust: The Chameleon
Cauliflower crust pizza, a go-to alternative Cauliflower is everywhere these days, from rice to mashed potatoes to pizza. It’s a flowering member of the cabbage family. Known as cruciferous vegetable, the nutrient-dense cauliflower is the chamele...
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New Wave of American Pizza
A new crop of pizza makers are ignoring the rules and achieving their own vision Being the rolling stone that it is, pizza has gathered no moss since first gracing America’s lips in the late 19th century. It’s clear that what was once considered ...
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Man on the Street: New Frontiers in Cheese
I’ve got a chip on my shoulder about cheese. It gets all the attention despite being the pizza component that requires the least amount of effort. You toil over your dough’s ingredients and fermentation schedule. You carefully select the right to...