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Chris@Taradel: Thanks Chris. We have a pretty boring website so adding text should be easy for the SEO component. I moonlight as a Dir of Marketing for an electronics company, so I can come up with stuff for network access security but PR for pizza is a first. I normally use MarketWire and pick...

Have any of you ever won a “Best of” contest and released a press announcement? Can you share links to the stories? We recently were voted The Best pizza in the entire Bay Area (not only San Jose, but SF and Oakland) so I’d like to take advantage of the good fortune...

royster13: True, sorry for mis-reading it. Still seems high though.

indie pizza: Yeah, 15 to 20 % seems steep. Maybe if it’s a full blown restaurant, but probably not needed for just a pizza shop. 10% is probably doable unless you have an extravagant lifestyle.

Thin2win: What kind of bar might also make an impact. When does the bar open? Do food patrons mind walking by your bar smokers? If it’s an upscale bar it may help more than a dive bar. Thinking sports bar with games pool table, dart boards, Buck hunter, golf 4-5 lg screen tv’s with games...

Thin2win: What kind of bar might also make an impact. When does the bar open? Do food patrons mind walking by your bar smokers? If it’s an upscale bar it may help more than a dive bar. The dive bar next to us scares off the families and daters some nights depending on who’s playing (band). Each...

coupepizza: The rent isn’t bad and the equipment is good quality. Now you need to figure out wages, which is the other killer. If you can afford to put out around 8 to 10 K/ month for rent, food, wages, insurance, taxes, gas, electric, boxes, plates, etc. that isn’t bad. You do 250K or more a...

Thin2win: Sort of. We’re right next to a blues bar now and I’m surprised by how many ladies (soccer mom types) that hate having to deal with drunks at 10 PM. Well not really. The drunks come in to so they pick up the after dinner business, but I think we can do better if we focus on people...

We’re doing beer in our next place, but questioning wine. Ladies probably want it in glass so that means glads and no plastic, dish-washing, breakage, etc. Customers are actually saying that beer would be enough, so they’re helping to decide.

We’ve had luck hiring people with restaurant experience (not necessarily pizza) or at least some retail experience. If they stick, they quickly pick up the pizza making/kitchen tasks. We haven’t had luck with people that aren’t service oriented or into cleanliness.

A bar means a different customer. How many little league teams do you get in? How much will kids overlap with bar patrons? You ready for bartenders and more dish-washing? I hear that alcohol can add or about 40% of a biz. We’re looking at beer in our next place because current customers ask for...

Is the equipment what you want? What’s the monthly rent? Why not just buy the equipment and start over?Why buy “the business” that failed? Is the counter where you want it? Do you need to move walls? 2500.00 sq ft is big, so you’re going to have to sell a lot of pizza. We’re looking at our 2nd...

No way. We’d rather have happy employees (and S.O.'s) than be open and hope people want pizza after pigging out all day…

Nice stuff!

Customers don’t want burnt pizza. Good call. It also sounds like the other guy is tired of having to cover for the kitchen and mistakes or for mistakes with the initial orders. Sounds like staff meeting time… Putting out a burnt pizza is stupid though.