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Building Blocks: Three Bottlenecks, and How to Fix Them
After all the hard work, customers are flowing into your pizzeria, drawn by a unique menu and attractive marketing. However, are you seeing there are parts of your operation that are working great when you’re slow, but as soon as you get busy, they...
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How to conduct proper restaurant forecasting
AccuForecast Restaurant forecasting for your pizzeria is as vital to your restaurant’s health as your recipes or your customer service. To not forecast is as reckless as driving an 18-wheel truck with a blindfold on. It’s imperative not only to k...
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Cleaning Best Practices
COVID-19 has made constant cleaning paramount It’s not enough to wipe down guest tables with a damp cloth any more. In the COVID-19 world, restaurant operators need to clean and sanitize everything that anyone touches. Pizzeria owners are establish...
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Mental Health: Happy Hour is Not an Option
Learning to cope with the tremendous stress of these times “Scott…two weeks’ notice. This job currently is leaving me mentally exhausted after every shift and causing enough stress for me where I am jeopardizing personal relationships.” ...
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Mike’s Monthly Tip: Just Get It Wrong Already
Netflix was started by Marc Randolph and Reed Hastings while they were in job limbo. Not too dissimilar from a COVID limbo of wondering where life would land. They worked for a company that got acquired, and they were getting paid to go to work and d...
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Pizzerias focus on front-of-house updates
Much Needed Attention Dining restrictions amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic have resulted in restaurant operators taking a hard look at their interiors. Without guests filling seats, some have taken the time to spruce up their dining rooms. When we survey...
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Operational and Capital Improvements During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Survey Participants Detail Improvement Made Since March 2020 Bought a food truck right before the pandemic happened. Also now just getting that food truck wrapped Working on full new me nu and decals/wraps for pizzeria. Looking to push our brand and ...
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How to successfully navigate supply chain disruptions
Supply Chain Solutions Even in the challenging age of the novel coronavirus, John Patrone and his crew at Patronies Pizza in Supply, North Carolina, were dishing up more than 500 pizzas on a summer Friday night. That’s high demand the 11-year-old p...
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Mike’s Monthly Tip: Food-Borne Complaints Tip
It’s the end of a long day, and you see a message come through. Maybe it’s an e-mail, a review, a direct message or a voicemail from someone complaining they got violently sick a few hours after eating at your restaurant. What do you do? How do y...
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Man on the Street: DELCO, Keep it Crispy
Like it or not, you’re in the DELCO business now. The foreseeable future doesn’t look good for restaurants relying on huge dining rooms. Fortunately the pizza business has been thriving on mobility since the industry’s birth. As profitable as p...
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Customer Appreciation
Now, more than ever, is time to give thanks I’ve been thinking a lot about pizza consumers lately. Strange, I know. My job requires me to think about pizzeria owners 24/7. We have a Man on the Street, Scott Wiener, whom we task with keeping the p...
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How to Improve Ticket Times
Ticket Time Management A restaurant’s ticket times and speed of service are the heartbeat of that restaurant. Every time I walk on the line as I go from store to store, my first question to the person running the line is: “where are we at?” ...