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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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Spiral Out
Rotini presents perfect pasta opportunities Rotini pasta might just be the world’s perfect pasta. Its corkscrew shape beautifully allows whatever sauce it’s tossed in to grab hold and nestle between the spirals. This pasta shape allows for the ma...
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Pasta la Vista, Baby!
Pasta is the easiest menu addition you can make Pasta always seems to be on those “trending” lists –– either it’s hip or it’s going away. Any way you view pasta, it has had a wonderful history. Researchers have found that this delicious c...
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Product Perplexity
Handle a product change with finesse Something’s different about this slice.” Your customer just zeroed in on your change in dough, cheese or sauce. Maybe you changed because your distributor went bankrupt. Or maybe you want to switch to fresh, o...
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Man on the Street: In the End, Is Easy Better than Good?
I just read a quote that completely terrified me –– and for once it wasn’t spoken by a politician! In late 2015, the head of a major food company suggested to investors that their ailing pizza chain should concentrate less on making good food a...
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Styles of Pepperoni, America’s No.1 Pizza Topping
Pepperoni is America’s Top Pizza Ingredient This is a true pepperoni story. One night, six years ago, I received a call from an older customer saying that we made her pizza incorrectly. “You screwed it up! I ordered a plain pizza, and this doesn�...
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Pizza Styles: Neapolitan vs. NEOpolitan
Pizza with similar names just isn’t the same When pizza first became popular in the United States, it had already changed dramatically from its original southern Italian expression. Newly arrived immigrants couldn’t afford wood to fuel their oven...
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Sweet Sell — Dessert Cookie Pizzas
Dessert pizzas take finesse to make, market Desserts are a hard sell for pizzerias, where that extra slice most customers don’t want but just can’t say no to can mean a sweet finish won’t be added to the check total. But when made right, advert...
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Turn the Other Cheek
Guanciale offers a time bomb of flavor I have many farmer friends who raise pigs in rural Ohio. Over the years, they’ve turned me on to some great “off cuts” that most people don’t see like liver, trotters and neck. One of the most delicious ...
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Pork Project
Savory, sweet Italian sausage is a menu master for the ages There’s no two ways about it: Italian sausage is an undisputed menu rock star. Prized for its flavor and versatility, the uses for it in a pizzeria setting are abundant. When it comes righ...
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Eggplant: Purple Passion
Eggplant Parmesan is hit with both diners and the bottom line, so use the classic dish for inspiration A few friends of mine recently gave me the same answers when I asked them which of their menu dishes were the most profitable. Among the favorites?...
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Knead to Know with John Arena: Understanding Ingredients
The key to better dough is to understand what you’re working with Truly memorable dough that produces a crust with just the right amount of crunch and an open, complex crumb structure is the Holy Grail for most pizza makers. I rarely meet a pizzaio...
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Man on the Street: The Thrill of Discovery
I honestly wasn’t planning on eating any pizza during my lightning-fast mini vacation in North Carolina. The trip was all about seeing family so I did zero research beyond the obligatory tweet asking for recommendations in the area. The lack of res...