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Employee Management
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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Employee Management
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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People & Pizzerias
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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Employee Management
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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People & Pizzerias
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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People & Pizzerias
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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Menu Development
Creative grains can make your dough stand out
At 4:30 pm on August 15th, 2009, I made the best business decision I’d made since opening my pizzeria ten years earlier. I changed my dough. I had been in business for more than nine years. That steamy day, I cruised up and down the undulating hill...
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Dough Production/Development
Dough Doctor Tom Lehmann takes on common causes of a gum line
What cause pizza gum line? How to avoid gum line in pizza. In last months’ Dough Doctor article we began discussing the causes for the development of the “dreaded” gum line. This month, we take a look further. Check out some common causes and h...
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Menu Development
Dough equipment delivers heightened efficiencies in the kitchen
Darren Lister has his eyes on growth. Already with 12 Hideaway Pizza locations spread about Oklahoma, Lister and his partners are looking to build two new units each year, eventually expanding beyond their Oklahoma homeland into neighboring states. T...
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People & Pizzerias
Extra Virgin Oven grows from farmers market pizza cart to million-dollar operation in Charleston, South Carolina
While working at a local, upscale Charleston, South Carolina restaurant, friends Ricky Hacker and Matt McIntosh had a vision. “We kicked around the idea of a wood-fired pizzeria and realized that we didn’t have the money to open a restaurant,” ...
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Menu Development
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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People & Pizzerias
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...