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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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Motor City Pizza
How to do Detroit-style pies in your shop In the past couple of issues I’ve described my lifetime love of pizza and the value pizza has brought to me and my family’s life. While I have experimented with making many pizzas, Detroit-style pizza has...
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Knead to Know: Help! Emergency!
Emergency Dough You need dough NOW — what do you do? Have you ever had one of those nights where a storm kept you awake? Then, after getting a few hours of sleep you go to your store to open and find that your dough has blown courtesy of a power ou...
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Slice Life: Pizza by-the-Slice
Explore tips to up your pizza by-the-slice game Slinging slices isn’t an easy business. It’s an intricate balance of anticipating what customers want when they want it. Pizzerias take different approaches to their slice strategies. Some offer a l...
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Detroit Style: Pizza as a Career
In part two of his multi-part series on Detroit-style pizza, Jeff Smokevitch takes a look at turning from pizza fanatic to pizza purveyor Like many new college graduates, I didn’t know what I would do as a career. Life was coming at me fast and my ...
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Motor City Memories
In this multi-part series, Jeff Smokevitch of Brown Dog Pizza and Blue Pan Pizza reminisces on how he came to serve Detroit-style pizza for a living My journey to Detroit-style pizza is personal. Growing up in the suburbs of Detroit, pizza was a stap...
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Man on the Street: Sharing is Caring
Pizzerias have been obsessed with ownership since the dawn of time. When the first American pizzeria opened in 1905, it wasn’t called Lombardi’s. The front window said “Pizzeria Napoletana,” but locals called it Lombardi’s because that was ...
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Pizza Topping Trends: The Hot List
Operators tell us what they’re using in 2019 Every year, we ask operators to tell us their favorite new ingredient. In the past, operators have gone from the benign –– like taco meat –– to the less traditional (quail eggs were not easy to f...
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Make Me a Sandwich
Your customers want them — are you doing them the justice they deserve? The “Ihob” ad campaign where “Ihop” let the public know they were rebranding to International House of Burgers was a success for the company. I’ve heard people say, �...
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Path to a Menu Item
How to grow your lineup We get ideas for new menu items all the time. When I first started my restaurant I was in love with the idea of having specials each night based on in-season produce. The fact is that every time I tried to do something on the ...
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Rotating Beer Menus: Winter Warmers
Beer ABVs tend to rise when temps fall, but should your beer list follow? Technically, winter warmers are a category of beer, but there’s no doubt that beer enthusiasts are looking for dark, richer and boozier beers when the weather turns cold. �...
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Hot Off the Press
Panini offer lunch growth opportunities he panini sandwich is one of those foods that produce a “double-take” after the initial bite. It’s just natural to look down in amazement at this thin-ish flavor bomb and wonder why you don’t eat these ...
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2019 Menu Guide
Explore new and trending pizza, app and entrée recipes specifically engineered for pizzeria kitchens Peach & Pecan Pizza Spicy Goat Cheese and Sun-dried Tomato Bruschetta Monster Mash Pizza Southwest Heat Pizza...