Recent content by movvid

A friend of mine wants to take over an existing dine-in pizza restaurant. I obviously have no prior experience on this as we built our location from the ground up. I’m turning to you-- my fellow pizza makers for advice and answers to some of his questions -How can he have access to their books...

typical plate charge range from $200- $300 from 7" to 16"…I won’t pay any more than that. The vendor rarely makes money from these plates. The ink jet is a very interesting method. I’ve never heard that before. I wonder how the quality looks and if only certain type of boxes can be used.

our verdict… Best night of the year but not as strong as last year. We’re a Delco. about 40% were deliveries.

what do you all do differently prep wise to prepare for this larger rush? Do you think baking the breadsticks about 30 min before being served a good idea? And keeping unbaked LG pepperoni an hour before served? We want to be efficient with production and reduce our 15-20 minute wait for a night...

What’s your prediction for this year’s Halloween? Here are some comments we’re hearing from other pizza operators: 1.) A lot busier than last year due to pent up demand and cash-strapped parents wanting to do something special for their kids 2.) Slower than last year due to bad economy 3.)...

What’s your business model? Low- median segment? You have to remember college students are looking for deals when buying food. Remember the good 'ol times of top ramen for dinner or a lick of peanut butter for lunch? I do! From experience, low prices will give you the volume but high volume=...

from what I know most school districts really don’t have contracts with pizza vendors. depending on the size of the district they know that they have the high volume to demand superior product and service ALL THE TIME. if they don’t like a vendor they can just boot them out of the system...

Hello pizzamakers. We’re trying to emphasize UPSELLING with our employees and need your advice. 1.) We’re currently selling about 30-35% of sides (items beside pizza) compare to the # of pizza. Besides pizza the only main entree we sell are calzones and paninis the rest are sides (wings...

What’s your trade area like to be averaging 10k/ wk? Mostly single family homes? Where’s the competition? Population? 10k/wk looks very promising for only being in business for 5 weeks. What you have to watch out for is when you start seeing customers drop or decline in repeat customers. I’m...

I’m thinking of finding customers in our city and just sending them a message via Facebook to “Become our fan”. Do you guys think this is a good idea? Or it will just be annoying? I’m a bit hesitant now on Facebook ads since I’m not sure how many people will actually pay attention to ads on the...

how did you get your 200 Facebook fans??? I’m thinking of doing Facebook ads to drive them to our page.

For our direct mail we use 8.5x 5.5 4/4 w/ 2-4 coupons. We use the 4x6 postcards w/ a single “FREE” coupon at community events.

Rockstar pizza: Rockstar what’s the name of the place? 5000 for $120.00 is a great deal. What size? What stock? And is it color front and back? When you say shipping included I’m assuming shipping of the box of postcards to your store not individual postage :). We just paid $610 (printing...

Yup, I agree with everyone else. $2.00 Off or any dollar amount type discount seems to give us a low return compare to our package deals. I guess the customers know that the price will be from the regular price and they really won’t be saving as much compare to the package deal. And we also like...

Accidentally posted this on the wrong section…so hopefully I’ll get responses on here :)… Database mailing have been giving us great results but as of now we’re just sending the same ad pieces to all customers in our system that we have addresses for. We’d like to take this a step further and...