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Brand & Marketing
A Guide to Add-on Sales
‘Can I get a side…?’ Among the most popular and significant developments in the pizza industry over the last 15 years in my opinion is online sales. By now, if you’re not offering an online ordering option, stop reading, call your point-o...
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Dough Production/Development
Growing with Sourdough
See how Will Grant began with sourdough, invigorating a new generation of sourdough chefs Sourdough breads have taken our Covid Pandemic Lockdown World by storm. What better way is there to spend quarantine than by filling your home with the aroma of...
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Menu Development
The Sicilian: How to Make Sicilian Pizza
If you wish to offer Sicilian style pizza in your pizzeria, all it takes is a few hardware pieces, and plenty of patience or over 3,000 years the island of Sicily has experienced a steady stream of naval powers, raids, invasions and occupations. Beca...
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Menu Development
Five Awesome Sauce Pizza Base Ideas
Get out of the basic red sauce rut with these five pizza sauces pizza’s sauce might just be the ultimate change up to its flavor. Sauce is an important link in the holy trinity of pizza (crust, cheese and sauce). You can go subtle to accentuate oth...
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Operations
One Pizzeria Operator’s Perspective on Permanently Going DELCO
Party of Zero, Your Table Is Ready Pizza for table four is ready. Wings for table 12 are in the window.” These are the common sounds that were heard in the restaurant every day. Then suddenly one day in March 2020 everything as we knew it changed...
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Finance & Growth
Big Pizza Chain Strategy: What the pizza industry powerbrokers are up to
When the big guys move, it can reverberate across an industry and impact those big and small. Consider retail. When a power player such as Amazon waives delivery fees or one like Kohl’s maintains forgiving return policies, it shifts consumer sentim...
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Industry News
SBA Announces First-of-Its-Kind Technology Initiative for Restaurant Revitalization Fund
WASHINGTON –The U.S. Small Business Administration announced today the first round of technology partners participating in a new initiative for the Restaurant Revitalization Fund (RRF) – a program that will allow eligible restaurants and ...
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Industry News
The Restaurant Labor Shortage Survival Guide
Essential resources to help you find, hire and retain employees Just when restaurants are beginning to see an influx of indoor dining, a labor shortage strikes. Timing couldn’t be worse. Let’s look at the employment numbers, though. The Bureau of...
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Industry News
Pizza Expo 2021: What to Expect, Health & Safety
We’re bringing the pizza industry back together. Here’s how… Pizza Expo 2021 is just around the corner. As we get closer to the nation’s best known gathering of pizza professionals, August 17-19 in Las Vegas, we’ll be updating our ...
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Industry News
Domino’s and Nuro Launch Autonomous Pizza Delivery with On-Road Robot
Select Houston customers can have Domino’s delivered via R2, Nuro’s custom, autonomous vehicle, starting this week ANN ARBOR, Mich., April 12, 2021 Domino’s (NYSE: DPZ), the largest pizza company in the world based on global retail sales,...
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Industry News
Congratulations to our Winners of the 365 Pizza Challenge
Chef Heinz Lauer, Former Executive Chef of Le Cordon Blue College of Culinary Arts, has reviews and tested tall of the pizza recipe submissions and has made his final decision on the winner of the 365 Pizza Challenge! And the overall winner is...
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Menu Development
Presto: Add versatile pesto to your menu
Most pizza shops have two categories of pies. Red or white. But what about that illusive third option? Green. Pesto can be a replacement for sauce or used as a topping. It can be made vegan or extra cheesy. There are endless ingredients that you can ...