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People & Pizzerias
Pizza Today on the Road: The Original Vazzy’s, Bridgeport, CT
Better With Age Vazzy’s celebrates quarter of a century in Connecticut Bridgeport, Connecticut, may be a small town, but its region has enough room to hold Johnny Vazzano’s four The Original Vazzy’s pizza locations and several other Italian an...
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Menu Development
Greening the Menu
Pizzerias stand out by offering sustainable food Two pizzerias from two very different regions and demographics share a common bond. Napizza in San Diego, California, and SOL Pie Pizza of North Canton, Ohio, have focused their menus and restaurants o...
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Operations
On Tap: Keg Storage Space
Keep cooler space in mind when designing layout I have a small problem at my new restaurant, High Tops. I have 50 different beers on tap. At any given time, I’ll have anywhere from 75 to 90 kegs in my cooler, including my backup kegs. When I was de...
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Employee Management
The 411 on Cheese Prices
How cheese prices are set, why the figure moves so much and strategies to better manage costs Gary Cooney certainly knows how the volatility of cheese prices can impact a pizzeria. The man behind Chicago’s seven-unit Waldo Cooney’s Pizza chain, C...
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Operations
Pizza Today on the Road: Stoner’s Pizza Joint, Savannah, GA
A Family that Grows Together… Stoner’s Pizza Joint sets sights on new markets When Pizza Today arrived at Stoner’s Pizza Joint in Midtown Savannah, Georgia in February, the restaurant was filled with smiling people wiping down tables and co...
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Menu Development
Man on the Street: Ooze or Lose
Burrata has become one of the world’s sexiest cheeses When the Beatles played their legendary 1965 concert at Shea Stadium, most of the audience couldn’t hear a single note of music because of the din of teenage girls in full-on freak-out mode. I...
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Brand & Marketing
On Tap: Marketing & Promotions That Work
Couple of issues ago, I briefly touched on marketing and promoting your craft beer menu. Because I own two restaurants myself, I understand firsthand how important the marketing and promoting of your bar menu is to your sales and bottom line profits....
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People & Pizzerias
Destinations: Albany, NY
A look at pizzerias in Albany, New York DeFazio’s Pizza Opened in 1989, DeFazio’s is a wood-fired pizzeria where old school meets new. It offers seven crust styles: traditional white, organic whole wheat, organic multigrain, spicy red pepper, gar...
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Dough Production/Development
Knead to Know: Elevate Flavor
The Dough Doctor offers tips on improving your crust without breaking the bank Q: We just make a few pizzas a day for use at our bar. We use a frozen dough to make the crust and we find that the pizzas are just so-so, what can we do to make our pizza...
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Operations
Flooring: Games Afoot
Flooring should be durable, comfortable for guests and employees There’s no question that restaurant flooring takes a beating. Most operators do not require their patrons to remove their shoes before they enter, so dirt, water, snow and muck get tr...
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Menu Development
Cheese to Please
Specialty cheeses add panache to an ordinary menu Cheese is life. Anyone who owns and operates a pizzeria knows this intuitively. For most of us in this great pizza country, cheese is on almost every pizza and is the most expensive of the holy trinit...
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Menu Development
Manchego: Man Power
Manchego’s boldness lends flavor without going overboard If you’re looking for a new cheese flavor that is out of this world without being too out there, manchego is just the one you’re looking for. This Spanish variety hails from the La Ma...