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Dough Doctor Tom Lehmann takes a look at forging a single store in the pizza industry
Q: Is there still room in the pizza industry for an independent to get started? A: To answer your question in one word, yes. Pizza is a constantly evolving food that has great appeal to a very high percentage of our population across all age categori...
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Mobile pizza units add sales, street cred
Lloyd Helber owns six Pizza Cottage restaurants located throughout Central Ohio, but ask him about the wave of the future and he’ll tell you mobile kitchens. “Food trucks are the next generation of restaurant,” says Helber, who launched his fir...
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Pizzeria Social Media Marketing
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You say Panini, I say panino
Panini is the plural form for panino, which is literally the term for “small bread roll” in Italian. Technically, any sliced bread shouldn’t be called a panini or panino, but even in Italy, most sandwich shop operators will let you get by with ...
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5 quick, painless ways to make social media marketing easy
Social media is a powerful marketing tool. With all of the ins and outs of running a restaurant, how can you keep up social media that is active 24/7? Huffington Post offers five ways to make your social media marketing work for you. They include: Ke...
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21 Ways to wear pizza with pride
Have you noticed all of the pizza swag that people sport these days? From buttons, T-shirts and hats to earrings and cell phone cases, pizza fans are wearing their favorite food with pride. Buzzfeed has introduced “21 Ways to Wear Pizza with Pride....
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Pizza Today’s 2013 Hot 100 Independents — Will you make the list?
Does your pizzeria have what it takes to make Pizza Today’s Hot 100 Independents list? Complete your 2013 Hot 100 Questionnaire online at https://pizzatoday.com/hot-100-independents-questionnaire. Each year, we rank America’s 100 largest ...
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Taste of Chicago in full swing, other cities follow suit
Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria is churning out so much pizza from its four ovens at Taste of Chicago this week, it would make brick-and-mortar restaurants envious. The Windy City food festival attracts more than million visitors each year. From large m...
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Pizza Today on the Road: Extra Virgin Oven, Charleston, SC (VIDEO)
Pizza Today drops in on Extra Virgin Oven, a locally-focused pizzeria in Charleston, South Carolina. First opened as a farmers’ market pizza cart in 2005, EVO has grown into a million-dollar operation. write my essays Watch as Executive Chef Bl...
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Pizza Today on the Road: Steel City Pizza Co., Charleston, SC (VIDEO)
Pizza Today drops in on Steel City Pizza Company in North Charleston, South Carolina. The two-unit pizzeria’s concept pays homage to Adam Carb, Mark Gray and Tony Arcuri’s hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Watch as Mark Gray lets us i...
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Going Gluten Free — Logistics of tapping the wheat-free market
Expanding with gluten-free offerings was an obvious choice for Southeast-based Brixx Wood Fired Pizza. The 21-store chain sold nearly 60,000 gluten-free pizzas in 2012 alone, doubling the previous year’s sales. “At the very beginning, we realized...
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Steel City Pizza Company brings a bit of the Keystone state to the Low Country
Adam Carb, Mark Gray and Tony Arcuri take great pride in their hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania — so much so that their pizzeria concept is centered on their adoration of its blue-collar roots and its neighborhood pizzerias. Backed by an invest...