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Employee Management
Protecting Employees Against Workplace Violence
Experts say safety measures should include more than watching the “Run. Hide. Fight.” video Pizzeria owners want to build a safe environment for employees and customers. For a restaurant, the challenge is that the establishment is open to the pub...
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Menu Development
Shredded, Diced or Sliced Mozzarella? “Cutting the Cheese”
Break down advantages of shredded, diced or sliced mozzarella The Birth of Low Moisture Mozzarella In the 1930s, Midwestern dairy producers saw an opportunity. Mozzarella had already become a popular product but took days to produce and lacked the sh...
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Menu Development
Five Basic Tastes on Pizza: Sweet, Sour, Salty, Bitter and Savory
Learn how to use the five basic tastes on pizza to create knockout topping combinations The perfect pizza crust results from flour, water, yeast and time. There is a science to it. The key to why pizza tastes so good also lies in science. Topping a p...
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Menu Development
Napoletana Style Guide for Any Crust
Explore the Italian style and marketing approaches The combination of San Marzano tomatoes, fresh mozzarella and basil has yet to be superseded in the pizza game. Its simplicity in perfection is unrivaled. It’s very serendipitous that the Italian f...
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Operations
ADA: Online Accessibility
As ADA lawsuits related to website accessibility climb, pizzerias are put on notice Don Reddin and his colleagues at Pizza My Heart weren’t taking any chances. Already interested in improving the accessibility of their 26-unit, California-based piz...
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People & Pizzerias
Chris Decker: New Horizons
Las Vegas pizza maker Chris Decker stepping into the spotlight a bit with new concept in the works For well more than a decade Chris Decker quietly built a reputation as one of America’s finest pizza makers behind the scenes. As John Arena’s priz...
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Industry News
Reopening Pizzeria Dining Rooms
Planning for an Uncertain New Reality The White House has rolled out guidelines for Opening Up America Again. Restaurants fall into all three phases. Phase One for states and regions that satisfy its gating criteria on COVID19 reports on decrea...
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Industry News
Support Your Local Pizza Place During The Great American Pizza Party
Americans Encouraged to Order Pizza for a Chance to Win a Full-Size Arcade Game LOS ANGELES, Calif. (April 16, 2020) On Friday, April 17, pizza restaurants across the country will come together for The Great American Pizza Party, a national event ...
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Restaurant Relief America Campaign Launched to Aid Restaurant Workers
The National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation (NRAEF) announced the creation of a Restaurant Employee Relief Fund (RERF) to support U.S. restaurant workers financially impacted by the COVID-19 crisis, and that industry icon Guy Fieri...
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Detroit Pizza Restaurateur Creates ‘Pizza Pledge’ for Essential Workers
Goodwill is Spreading throughout Metro Detroit PizzaPapalis is trying to feed every healthcare worker in Metro Detroit as they battle one of the nation’s worst outbreaks of COVID-19 with donations from individuals and companies. But it wants to do ...
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Industry News
The Quarantine Pizza Games winners are…
Dough-Tossing Acrobats Lit Up Instagram During the week of Pizza Today’s Virtual Pizza Expo, April 6-10, we joined forces with the World Pizza Champions to bring some of the excitement of the World Pizza Games into your homes. “We are in an u...
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Tell Us How COVID-19 Is Impacting You
Pizza Today would like to continue its coverage of the Novel Coronavirus and the impact on your business. This information will be used for internal purposes only for Pizza Today editors to better understand the current challenge facing the pizzeria ...