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...

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...

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...

Not every region has its own true style I’m delighted that the Internet is so into pizza right now, but I have to pump the brakes a bit and point out that the number of click-lists and rundowns about regional pizza styles is getting ridiculous. It ...

Highway to the non-danger zone The danger zone is not that sweet spot that only Maverick lives in with Kenny Loggins providing the soundtrack. It’s the temperature where bacteria grow. It’s the un-fun, not sexy part of the job, but it’s the mos...

Breathe new life into your pizzeria with these tips If you’re running a pizzeria, especially one that is successful, it’s easy to get in a rut. After all, the old adage says: “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” That doesn’t mean you can�...

How to use your company ‘bible’ to build a stronger company culture You can spot the companies that have a well-defined company culture the minute you walk in the door. There is something about the way the restaurant’s staff interacts with cust...

Position your pizzeria to thrive with large parties An exercise: Go to a search engine and type “group friendly restaurants” and your area/town. Are you listed? Read the descriptions of the places ranked to see why they were highlighted. If your...

How the famed Chris Bianco mixes local and distant grains to achieve pizza perfection Chris Bianco has been atop the pizza world for two decades. He started humbly, baking pies in a nondescript Phoenix grocery store. What elevated him to one of the w...

  2 Guys Pies Yucca Valley, California Here at 2 Guys Pies we live by a plan, the P.I.E. Plan. We have “P”assion for the job we perform, “I”ntegrity to do the job to our full potential and we bring “E”nthusiasm with us every single d...

It’s about more than food “People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” ~ Dr. Maya Angelou Dr. Angelou’s quote hits the nail on the head when it comes to exceeding th...

A look at New York Style Pizza, the most popular dough style in America It is estimated that 70 percent of the pizza consumed nationally is based on the New York-style pizza that evolved in response to the product’s equipment and cultural differenc...