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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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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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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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Industry News
Commentary: What Inspires You?
I’ve been thinking a lot about inspiration lately. Poets and songwriters often say the words they pen sometimes come to them from out of nowhere. They hint that the thoughts they articulate and put to paper are a gift from another realm. Other time...
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People & Pizzerias
Destinations: Southend, L’industrie Pizzeria , Adriatico’s New York Style Pizza
A Look at Pizzerias Across the U.S. Southend | Venice Beach, California “We are a local spot in the middle of beautiful Venice Beach. We stand out for our sourdough technique, our vibrant and large wine list by the glass, welcoming attitude ...
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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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Finance & Growth
Raising Menu Prices: New Rates, Same Value
Raising Prices the Right Way Fast or slow, increases in food costs tend to be inevitable for everyone: from January 2018 to January 2019, prices for restaurant purchases increased by 2.8 percent, according to the United States Department of Agricultu...
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Finance & Growth
Delivery Liability – Protecting your business and employees
Food delivery is here to stay. We are a nation in love with instant gratification. Pizzerias have a long tradition of delivering hot, fresh, custom gratification to the doors of America. However, delivery exposes operators to significant financial ri...
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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...