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Young Entrepreneur of the Year Rocky Shanower is Coming to Pizza Expo 2022!
When the team at Pizza Today and Pizza Expo went through the lengthy process to determine the 2020 Young Entrepreneur of the Year, Rocky Shanower, co-owner of Park Street Pizza and a mobile wood-fired pizza truck concept named Bahler Street in Suga...
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Guide to the 2021 National “Best Pizzas” Lists
Guide to the 2021 Best Pizza Lists Did your pizzeria make one of this year’s top pizza lists? Being thrust into the national spotlight can be a game changer for an independent pizzeria. We scoured the Internet in search of this year’s leading nat...
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Registration is now open for International Pizza Expo 2022
Pizza Community to Converge on Las Vegas in March Registration is officially open for the 38th annual International Pizza Expo 2022 taking place on March 22-24 at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. With hundreds of top pizza indust...
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Stellar Pizza to Launch Robotic Pizza Chain Restaurant
Innovative, robotics-powered mobile pizza restaurant, Stellar Pizza, announces it is preparing for launch in Los Angeles in the Spring of 2022. Under the direction of former SpaceX engineer turned CEO, Benson Tsai, Stellar Pizza uses cutting-edge tec...
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Dough Production/Development
Learn factors and adjustments that play into proper pizza dough mixing
In the mix: proper way to mix a batch of dough and for how long In my day-to-day job I answer a lot of questions. One main question that always stands out centers on the proper way to mix a batch of dough and for how long. It is always hard to tell...
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Brand & Marketing
Building Blocks: Drafting Your First Job Description?
A Sample Pizzeria Manager Job Description In the previous installment of Building Blocks, we explained which management positions are required to run a successful pizzeria — now we need to define them. Before you identify the potential managers wit...
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Man on the Street: The Pizza Bubble
I can’t shake the feeling that we’re about to experience a tidal wave of new pizzerias only to see most of them close their doors within a few short months. Pandemic lockdowns resulted in millions of people learning how to work with flour, yeas...
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Commentary: Pizzeria of the Year
Our 2021 Pizzeria of the Year is Razza, a Jersey City-based operation that is super impressive. I enjoyed visiting owner Dan Richer for the interview and photo shoot in October. What I did not expect was to enjoy Jersey City as much as I did. It was ...
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Conversation: Duane Billings — The Scheme, Salina, Kansas
Concept: Old saloon, open three days a week, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. Reservations strongly advised and can order pizza with reservation. Our artists like Bev Doolittle, in their paintings, they have things hiding inside of them. And the mural in ...
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Finance & Growth
Two Food Cost Myths Hamstringing Your Recovery
Bust These Two Food Cost Myths at your Pizzeria There are two deep-seeded myths most pizzeria owners hold true that are holding them back from being as successful as they can be. I want to bust those two myths now so you can make the money you deserv...
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Employee Management
Showing Appreciation to Your Employees
How – and why – pizzerias might use the close of the year to recognize employees Back in 2013, Justin Klavon wanted to do something unique to acknowledge the employees at his namesake pizzeria in Jackson, Michigan. While long accustomed to ha...
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Dough Production/Development
Rock solid competitors, trends and insights from the International Pizza Challenge 2021
Hall of Flame “Everything starts with a solid foundation. The stronger it is, the longer you last in competition, business and life, because only the strongest survive.” Chef Que Wimberly, The Missing Brick Pizzer...