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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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Mortadella Pizza with Anthony Falco
A classic Mortadella Pizza is experiencing a newfound popularity I’ve never tasted Bologna, a.k.a. “Baloney”. As a child of vegetarians, I was spared that American childhood staple. Today, I am no traditionalist. I may be guilty, in the eyes of...
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Chicken Wings Remain One of the Hottest Appetizers in your Portfolio
Chicken Wings History – No Thing But a Chicken Wing Once upon a time, chicken wings were inexpensive due to the nature of supply and demand in American restaurants. According to legend, this part of the chicken was “undesirable” – and when re...
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Killer Summer Tomatoes — Varieties and Ways to Make Them
A Look at Summer Tomato Varieties, Prep and Recipes Harvesting fruitful tomato rewards from a seedy past In 1521, Hernan Cortez looked upon the smoldering destruction of Tenochtitlan. His 1400 Spanish troops reinforced by 200,000 native tribes had fi...
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Fresh salad toppings bring vibrance and bite to summer pizzas
Salad Pizza: Crunch & Color Pizza and salad are one of those pairings that just make a lot of sense. The lightness of greens cutting through the greasy goodness of pizza creates a complete meal. So why not just make salad pizza? Done, right? I’...
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Diners are in Love with Cocktails — Your Bottom Line Will Love Them, Too
New Cocktails for your Bar Menu — Drink Up While some will say beer is king when it comes to pizza night, the fact of the matter is that cocktails are top-of-mind for many social drinkers. If you have a full bar, offering only beer and wine cou...
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Topping combinations that turn pizza into a winning symphony of flavor
Balancing Act: Flavorful Pizza Topping Combinations “We can form a single united body, while the enemy must spit up into fractions. Hence there will be a whole pitted against the separate parts of the whole, which means we shall be many to the enem...
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Building Blocks: Build Guides and Recipes Create Consistency
“Consistency is what transforms the average into excellence” – Tony Robbins Whether you have one pizzeria or 10, two of the biggest keys to success in the pizza industry are duplication and consistency. Often times, you will hear operators ...
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Create a Dessert Menu that Customers Can’t Resist
Sweet Sensation: Scratch-made Dessert Ideas Desserts are a tough sell. Diners have filled themselves up on your main attraction, pizza. That is why it’s so important to put the idea of having dessert into their minds before they even begin filling ...
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Spring’s Bounty is Ripe for Your Pizza Menu
Spring Fling: Add spring flavors to your pizza menu It was another muddy spring but here I was again, lurking into my favorite “Ramp Holler”, (local vernacular for “hollow.”) This little valley was my favorite foraging spot for the first ...
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When should a restaurant outsource its desserts?
Outsourcing Desserts The question of when a restaurant should outsource desserts comes up frequently among owners and operators. While some pizza shops may be scratch-only kitchens or able to handle a full menu load, the reality for many others is th...
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The Tomato and Pizza Sauce Journey
The story of how our Pizza Sauce came to fruition The Global Tomato Market generates $181.74 Billion in revenue yearly. To put that in perspective, that is larger than the GDP of Ukraine and Morocco, and not far off from Greece, Peru and Portugal. Ac...
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Ricotta Cheese is a Staple Item for Every Pizzeria
Ricotta Cheese: Role Player Ricotta is a whey cheese to which pizzeria operators are no stranger. A menu staple in many pizza shops and Italian restaurants coast to coast, the creamy cheese plays a role in various applications from calzone filling to...