Recent content by The_Calzone_Kid

Hello all, Its been ages since I’ve posted anything - I hope all is well for everyone! I had a new pizza chain (Marcos Pizza) open up about 1 block from me during the 1st week of October. This brings the number of pizza delivery restaurants to 6 in a town of about 35k. 4 of them, including...

These online review sites all drive me nuts! I have one that either is a competitor, a disgruntled former employee, or a person with x-ray vision that can see through walls (review says “the employees here never wash their hands after using the restroom, trust me”). I have 1 single person...

Ugh! Congrats to you all! I was down a hair over 10% from last Feb. It really seems like money has been super tight in my area since Christmas. I finished 2012 down about 2.5% from the previous year. But ever since the last week of December, I am down an average of 11.8%. It seems like my weekly...

I would probably just raise your price on the slice special by a quarter. Not that I speak for every customer, but personally, I always roll my eyes when I see minimum card amounts. Mainly because I always seem to be short of hitting that minimum - then am forced to decide between purchasing...

I ended up being down 7.6% from last January. February isn’t starting off much better. I have to agree that the delay on tax returns this year has been a major blow through the 1st 5 weeks of the year. Only one way to go from here hopefully!

Hmmm. I’m no doctor, but a yeast infection came to mind. I’m not sure if you can get it on your hands, but it might be worth checking out or Googling. Good luck bud!

royster13: This!!! Your loyalty needs to be to the many employees you have that bust their tails for you on a daily basis. If these 2 employees are not showing any loyalty toward the business, you owe them nothing. Sometimes fresh blood can be a good thing. Sometimes a veteran baseball player...

UGH - I was just thinking about this post over the weekend - and here is my wonderful week so far! -My wife and I have a baby coming sometime late this week or weekend. So we have all the stresses of a 1st child coming at any second. -Sunday evening my water pump went out on my car. -Monday...

wa dave: Hi Dave! Do you have a way of differentiating between “specials” and “coupons”? I would absolutely love to start having every coupon be accounted for but I have a few problems. My daily specials are usually the same things I have on my coupon flyers so the driver would have nothing to...

Rockstar pizza: Hey Rockstar, let me know how that goes! I’m about 99% sure I’m going to do the same increase this summer ($1.50-$2.00), but I’m currently in the process of decreasing my coupon savings, so I’m a bit scared of this “double whammy” scaring a few people away

Not to bring this thread off topic, but has anyone ever encountered any backlash when asking for pre-payment for large orders? I did ask for pre-payment once on an order than sounded sort of suspicious to me and lost out on a potential 20 pizza order on a slow weeknight a couple years back. Not...

Registered Guest: I need to both agree and disagree with parts of this post Reg. Guest! Under no circumstances would I give her the pizzas for free. It almost rewards her lack of consideration. I think the buzz created by doing that would backfire and encourage others to try it out to get...

Hang in there bud! i seem to say that once a week as well. I cant tell you how much balder I am sincer I bought my place 3 years ago! A friend of a friend of mine manages some high-end restaurants in the Minneapolis area. When I told him I was in the process of buying my store a few years ago...

indie pizza: Thanks Indie, I literally LOL’ed 😃

I dont think an investor is right for you man. If you have the experience, the equipment, a ‘can’t miss’ idea, and only need 30k, I’m not sure what you would need an investor for. With little collateral, a traditional loan should be no problem. Plus, the interest rates would probably be much better!