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Dough Production/Development
Knead to Know: Smooth Operator
The Dough Doctor addresses mixing protocols and reducing agents There seems to be an abundance of questions on how much a pizza dough should be mixed. While there are just too many variables involved to give any hard and fast numbers, the best advice...
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People & Pizzerias
Destinations: Jay’s Artisan, NY; Mifflin Pizza, PA; The Now, NY
A look at pizzerias around the U.S. Jay’s Artisan Pizza | Buffalo, New York The Neapolitan-influenced, wood-fired pizzeria started in 2015 as a food truck and grew into its brick-and-mortar location in 2017. “We are constantly striving to ...
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Operations
Digital Menu Boards: Let’s Get Digital
Digital menu boards can keep customers engaged with all that’s happening at your restaurant Menu boards supply invaluable information to your customers. From the slice of the day and the chef’s signature dish to happy hour specials, menu boards a...
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Menu Development
Craft Soda: Bubbling Up
What You Need to Know about the Craft Soda Trend What beverages should you offer up alongside your beautifully crisped, fresh-out-of-the-oven pies? While customers used to be content with a modest selection of beer, wine and major soft drink brands, ...
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Finance & Growth
Leveraging Technology
Creating a smart, manageable plan to investigate and integrate business-boosting technology into the pizzeria Tony DiSilvestro admits he’s a bit of a tech junkie. From digital menu boards touting restaurant specials to comprehensive software for hi...
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Finance & Growth
Having Designs on The Place
New store considerations include everything from where to put the oven to how to best reflect the brand Whether it’s your first restaurant or the fifth location of your growing company, there are many design elements to consider when opening a new ...
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Operations
Mike’s Monthly Tip: Wabi-Sabi
How to make your pizzeria perfectly imperfect As a child, I lived in Okinawa on a Marine Corps base. I was young, but I vividly remember living there and all the amazing culture and people I came into contact with. At one time, a local woman who was ...
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Menu Development
Next Level Antipasto
Taking the traditional app from basic to stand out An antipasto is your chance for a wow factor at the beginning of a meal. Eight hundred years ago, in Italy the antipasto was a social starting point for the beginning of a meal. For me, as a kid I th...
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Operations
Walk the Lines
Beer draft system maintenance vital for beverage sales #Pizzaandbeer has over 100,000 Instagram posts. Must be a classic combo, right? Their dual appeal relies on more than mere tradition or compatible comfort-food allure. Beer’s bitterness and aci...
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Menu Development
Pork Project
Sausage combos never go out of style A staple of your pizza protein offerings, sausage is one of the undisputed customer topping favorites. Second only to pepperoni on a national scale, it’s a flavorful option you simply cannot go without. A histor...
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Menu Development
Pizza Toppings: Egg-cellent
Eggs on Pizza Egg takes rightful spot on the pizza menu Last month, through trial and error — we were able to successfully cook eggs directly on a pizza in the Pizza Today Test Kitchen. It was a feat and the challenge of it triggered a quest to fin...
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People & Pizzerias
Pizza . Today on the Road: East Side Pies, Austin, TX
All Points East East Side Pies grows beyond east Austin Pizza Today’s visit to East Side Pies in Austin, Texas, in the spring, came at a pivotal time in the pizza company’s history. Co-owner Noah Polk was away overseeing the grand opening of an a...