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Fine-Tune Your Operations for Top Performance
By Shawn Randazzo A customer sits with her husband and another couple at one of your pizzeria’s tables, eagerly anticipating the hot new menu item you’ve been promoting. When their meal arrives, she unwraps her napkin and is horrified to find her...
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Breaking the Rules
In the restaurant business there are certain “rules” you’re supposed to follow in order to be successful, but many operators break these rules and see sales and profits rise. Pizza Today takes a look at how operators are breaking five rules and...
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Places that Rock: Old Town, The Pizza Peel, Pizzeria 712
Old Town Pizza 150 Sacramento Street Auburn, California 95603 (530) 888-7600 otpizza.net With a third location opening this summer, the greater Sacramento-area pizza company has hit its stride winning the region’s “best of” honors consecutively...
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Pizza Expo 2015: It’s a Go
International Pizza Expo set to be largest in show history Whether you’re attending your first or 15th International Pizza Expo, it’s safe to say the show has come a long way. This year’s Expo is set to be the largest in its 31-year history. Th...
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Building a Leadership Team
It all starts with you Managing chaos is my favorite phrase I like to use to describe operating a pizzeria — chaos that can challenge the sanity of even the best of us. Our pizzerias take raw materials such as salt, flour, yeast, tomatoes an...
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LA Pizza Tour: Going Back to Cali
A Whirlwind trip took us to some of Los Angeles’ best pizzerias Garage Pizza When we landed at LAX we were famished. Thankfully one of our planned stops, Garage Pizza, wasn’t all that far from our hotel. We high-tailed it to this slice...
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J.J. Dolan’s, Honolulu, Hawaii — Ohana
[SlideDeck2 id=39232] J.J. Dolan’s pizzeria-Irish pub concept is at home in Honolulu’s Chinatown What do you get when you combine a New York-style pizzeria with an Irish pub in Chinatown in the Hawaiian tropic city of Honolulu? The...
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Places that Rock: DC Pizza / Zentropa / Red Tractor
Each month, Pizza Today highlights pizzerias around the country to find out what makes them unique pizza places that rock. DC Pizza [SlideDeck2 id=37727] 1103 19th St. NW Washington, DC 20036 (202) 331-1800 dcpizzaonline.com The new fast-casual pizze...
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The Young & the Workplace
Managing teen employees presents unique challenges There’s no argument that teen employees can pose real challenges to pizzeria operators. They’re typically untrained, with little clue about how to behave in the workplace, interact with customers...
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Evolution of a Brand
[SlideDeck2 id=37796] d’Bronx brings taste of New York to Kansas City, Missouri When you’ve got a NYC borough in your pizzeria’s title, that carries a good amount of expectation from your customers. Such is the case for Kansas City-based d’Br...
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Rolling Stone
[SlideDeck2 id=37822] The Stone Canyon Pizza Company on a roll with stellar sales, ‘quality-driven concept’ Some pizzeria operators walk a fine line between fitting in while still standing out enough to compete. Such is the case for The S...
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Hops & Pie, Denver, Co. — Drafted
[SlideDeck2 id=36574 ress=1] Hops & Pie selected as a top Denver spot for artisan pizza and craft beer Denver, Colorado ,ranks as one of most notable craft beer cities in the country. Amid its brewing explosion, Hops & Pie has become a...