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Operations
Setting Up Strong Vendor Partnerships
Make building better vendor relationships a priority this year. As we head into Pizza Expo 2025, it’s a great time to look at an often-overlooked part of restaurant success: vendor relationships. Treating your vendors as true partners rather than a...
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Operations
Explore steps to secure your customer and employee data
Data Secured: Secure your customer and employee data from cyber threats Of all the things that we have to think about as pizzeria operators, cybersecurity probably falls somewhere near the bottom of the list of priorities. Yet, the threat of a cyber ...
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Finance & Growth
How to Grow Your Pizzeria Sales
Realities of Growth: Using Growth Avenue, SWOT Analysis and S.MA.R.T. Goals to increase pizzeria sales Stability is a false promise. In the pizza business you are either growing or decaying. But striving for growth is risky if you choose the wrong av...
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Industry News
Top 20 Interesting Hot Slice Podcast Facts of 2024
What a year we had with the Hot Slice podcast in 2024! Looking back over the past 52 weeks, we’ve uncovered some interesting data worth sharing and celebrating. We love producing our weekly podcast — and the numbers show that PT readers love it, ...
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Industry News
Bart Bortles’ Legacy Lives on at Woody’s Wood Fired Pizza in Golden, Colorado
Pizzeria founder leaves mark on community and pizza industry This month, the pizza industry lost a legend in the Colorado pizza scene. Bart Bortles opened Woody’s Wood Fired Pizza over 30 years ago. At Pizza Today, we’ve watched what was once a b...
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People & Pizzerias
2025 Pizzerias to Watch
Standout Pizzerias to Watch in 2025 Each year, we ask pizzeria operators to submit their businesses for consideration in our Pizzerias to Watch feature sharing their total operation, from menu, sales and employee programs to community outreach and ma...
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Industry News
Season’s Greetings from the Pizza Today Team
The greatest gift is our pizza community We want to wish you the merriest holiday season and happiest new year! Take a moment to reflect on the incredible journey of the past year. What a year it has been for pizzerias, from challenges to triumphs an...
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Best of the Best Pizza Spots in the U.S. based Pizza Today’s 2024 Best Pizza Lists
We ranked the Top 20 Pizzerias in America of 2024 based on appearances on national and international pizza lists As 2024 draws to a close let’s look the Top 20 Pizzerias that made the most national and international pizza lists in 2024. Each year w...
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The Hot Slice Podcast: 2024 Year in Review
5 Most Popular Episodes of The Hot Slice Podcast with Pizza Today As we wrap up 2024, The Hot Slice Podcast with Pizza Today has featured some incredible guests from top pizza makers and pizzeria owners as well as the pizza industry’s thought l...
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Katie’s reaches $500,000 in donations to St. Louis area charities
Monthly Giveback Tuesday program celebrates major milestone with December contributions ST. LOUIS (Dec. 17, 2024)– Katie’s has achieved a huge milestone in its efforts to support local charitable organizations. With its December Giveback Tuesday ...
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Concord’s Pizza Game Gets Stronger: Toppers Pizza Arrives with Bold Flavors
Greater Charlotte Metro gets a fifth helping of crave-worthy pizza CONCORD, N.C. (Dec. 10, 2024) – Toppers Pizza, renowned for its unique menu items like Topperstix, adventurous toppings, wings and desserts, is marching into Concord with the openin...
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Little Caesars® Brings Back Fan-favorite Stuffed Crazy Crust Pizza!
DETROIT, Dec. 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Little Caesars is giving pizza lovers everywhere a reason to celebrate this holiday season with the return of its iconic Stuffed Crazy Crust! Starting December 16, customers can enjoy this cheesy, flavo...