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Pan Handle Pizza
Pizza Today visits the Florida panhandle for a fun-in-the-sun tour of pizzerias JOEY’S ON THE BEACH In March, thousands of college students and families alike flee colder climes to enjoy Spring Break on the Florida panhandle. We decided to do t...
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So Cool
Make this summer sweet with gelato Gelato –– that dense, creamy, wonderful Italian frozen dessert –– is not the exotic, foreign entity it once was. But although it has found its way onto restaurant menus across the country, it still offers me...
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Employee Management
Tip The Scale
Setting a payscale and integrating incentives With four Blue Moon Pizza stores spread about the Atlanta area, Kelvin Slater cannot make every pizza and touch every table. It’s why Slater feels so compelled to draw and hold on to first-rate employee...
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Sauces — Beyond Red
Artisan sauces take pizza menus beyond the red sauce At the dawn of the pizza age, tomato sauce –– or crushed plum tomatoes –– was what a customer would expect to find on the pie that was put before them. Over time, though, it was simp...
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2012 May: Big Splash
If you sell pizza, you’re a craftsman. Just as a painter, writer, architect or designer creates so, too, do you. It is your craftsmanship –– the long hours of perfecting your recipes so that your artisan pizza comes out of the oven ...
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The Dough Doctor examines ovens’ effects on dough
An interesting question came across my desk asking how the physical attributes of an artisan pizza would be affected by baking the same pizza in different types of ovens. Let’s take a look and see how a New York-style thin-crust pizza might vary wh...
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Pizza Toppings: Garden Fresh
Think outside the tomato when it comes to fresh veggies on pizza Artisan pizza is booming right now thanks to an influx of upscale ingredients that are more readily available than ever before. One of the latest trends which I believe is here t...
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Il Pizzaiolo: Paesanos, Sacramento, CA
There is an ever-present theme that weaves its way through Sacramento, California-based Paesanos’ 16-year-old operation: evolution, revolution even. Co-owner Mark Scribner and Director of Operations Dana Scarpulla showcased its original Midtown loc...
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Il Pizzaiolo: Pizza Rock, Sacramento, CA
Metal flames shooting from its artistic sign in front hint at what is in store for customers who visit Pizza Rock in Sacramento, California. Once inside, a real PeterBilt semi truck crashes through a wall hovering over its bar with a DJ booth spinnin...
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Man on the Street: Expand Your Reach
I used to fear technology. Part of my problem was that I assumed every new gizmo would be a passing phase. It’s even worse with digital media — I avoided Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare like the plague because I didn’t want to put the time int...
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Marketing Matters: Enough is Enough
When you use too many avenues of marketing Do you ever feel like you are suffering from marketing overload? Ever wonder if you’re on the brink of hitting your social media tipping point? I’ve been there. Sometimes you have to ask yourself,...
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My Turn: John Gutekanst, Avalanche Pizza, Athens, Ohio
A Matter of Perspective John Gutekanst Avalanche Pizza Athens, Ohio It was a busy night and we were running at a 55-minute pizza delivery time. I just put four large pizzas on the rail of my conveyor oven and pulled the ticket from the make li...