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People & Pizzerias
Conversation: Jon Hook, Parry’s Pizzeria, Denver
Parry’s Pizzeria Denver, Colorado Parry’s Pizzeria is a full service, NY-style pizza and craft beer restaurant. We pride ourselves on handmade pizza dough and some of the best Upstate New York-inspired wings in all of Colorado! We t...
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People & Pizzerias
Pizza Today on the Road: Pangea Kitchen, Evansville, IN
Food, The Universal Language Randy Hobson’s Pangea Kitchen brings a world of flavors to Evansville, Indiana Pangea Kitchen is a restaurant reminiscent of what you might see in a trendy large metropolitan district. It’s a pizzeria meets world mark...
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Menu Development
Whiteout: Béchamel Sauce
Enhance your white pizza with béchamel sauce If you want to give a decadently creamy taste and texture to your pizza menu this fall and winter, there is no better place to start than with a scratch-made béchamel sauce. While red pies are the...
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Finance & Growth
Mike’s Monthly Tip: Pricing Strategies
Don’t just blindly set a price point based on the competition Awhile ago I had a general manager who really wanted to change the beer prices of his store. He was emphatic that if we came down on price to matching or just under other local restauran...
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Industry News
Commentary: Ongoing Education
Pizza & Pasta Northeast is finally here! It seems like forever ago that I began reaching out to potential speakers to discuss pertinent topics and help line up the seminars and demo schedule that will make the show so special to attendees. I’d ...
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People & Pizzerias
Conversation: Doug Craig, Dougie John’s Pizza, Findlay, OH
Car-side pick-up, delivery, 20-seat outdoor patio. We make American-style pizza using the highest quality products we can get our hands on. We have three different crust options: Original Hand Tossed (thin), Fat Crust (thick) and Cauliflower C...
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Brand & Marketing
Man on the Street: “What the Heck is a Social Influencer?”
We all know that Facebook has become a minefield of negativity, punctuated with complaints and cries for help amid all the photos of vacations and babies. It’s usually pretty easy to scroll past the squeaky wheels, but a friend’s complaint post r...
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Dough Production/Development
Knead to Know: Sicilian Pizza
Learn how to make a Sicilian Pizza and Get a Sicilian Pizza Dough Recipe Bakery Pizza, Casalinga, Rustica, Upside Down Pizza, Square Pie (even when it’s a rectangle) … there are many relatively thick, focaccia-like pizzas baked in a pan that can ...
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Operations
Front of House: Greet & Seat
How to effectively train a restaurant host Think of your host as a conductor of an orchestra. Instead of a baton, the critical crew member has a seating chart and a wait list. The entire rhythm of your restaurant hangs on their ability to set the tem...
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Employee Management
Gen Z in the Workplace
Avoid turnover by understanding your youngest workers Smartphone Generation, iGeneration, Millennials on Steroids, Homeland Generation — whatever you want to call Generation Z — may reshape the workplace and ways employers approach communications...
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Brand & Marketing
Mike’s Monthly Tip: Guerilla Gifting
Personalized gifts can go a long way What birthday gift did you get as a kid that you still remember to this day? Really look back to that moment and the feeling it elicited from you. Think of the joy and happiness of that moment, whether it was some...
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People & Pizzerias
Pizza Today On the Road: The Post, Louisville, KY
Post-modern Transformation Former VFW post reborn as popular local pizzeria While walking a few blocks from their home in the Germantown neighborhood in Louisville, Kentucky, Laura and Nash Neely noticed an old VFW post for sale on Germantown’s mai...