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I am the expet on Houston pizza, according to me, I know where the best places are. Any Brother’s pizza for NY style 5 star Roma pizza n grey st near mid town 5 start Patsy’s Grimaldis waterwalk the woodlands 4 star Pizza by Marco 5 star Texas style hand tossed, thicker than NY fuzzy’s used...

Pizza PAtron in Texas; mon-wed- 1 12 inch medium cheese 2.99 regular price 4 bucks

This is done to figure out how many items to make to break even or break even analysis. It is best to include both fixed cost and variable cost, in this case the variable cost is is tyour labor and food cost or what it takes to produce one pizza which is 50%. Fixed cost is what it cost every...

Any TT people in the Houston, north Houston area? :?:

No sealer over vct. You can put tile with certain limitations and this probably your best option. If you want the stained floor look you will have to remove the vct and grind the floor.

Piper, It is very unlikly that the floor was stained either with acid or water based stain and not sealed. It really could not be done becasue it would so bad you would no it was not sealed, the sealing brings out the color and iniformity. Try this in an area. Go to Home Depot and get a wax...

The discoloration will be noticed if you are using acid reactive stain because there will be different lime ammounts in the patch and the surrounding concrete. For this situation the least expensive is to go with concrete dye. Try Smith’s paints Old World Stain, Ecocrete, Elite Crete...

There are a few options. The basic thread in all of them will be preparing the floor to hold onto the sealer or take the stain. At a minimum you will need a high speed floor machine and TSP to get up all the grease or foreign material fo the floor. If there is paint then you will have to use a...

I would guess that there are a lot of people that spent 150k to build a store that failed and sold it for asset value. I see it all the time in Houston. Desire and passion for the business will succeed over a fat bank account most of the time. While I don’t disagree that that being underfunded...

IF you are buying a low end location your not going to be spending 22k a month carry cost. Most of the independents I see are not in A locations if they are a delco only. From doing massive door hanging, flyers gorilla marketing you can get a shop making 400-500 a day from the first week if not...

Move to Houston and just about every month you can find a pizza place, delco, for 10k-15k or less. One guy has a store that was doing 450k 4 years ago and he sold it to a guy for 175k who ran it in the ground and then he sold it to a guy for 80k who tried to run it while working full time...

I thought a rental kitchen charged 25 an hour? So for only 4 hours a day 5 days a week thats still 2K a month.

One other note, in the recent QSR there was an article in the Ones to Watch section about Catfish One that started out being open one day a week for only two hours on Friday night, serving fried catfish take out only. He got up to 400 meals in that 2 hours period. It adds a novelty when people...

Pizza delco business is a delivery business so why pay the higher rent of a strip center location? I can see the benefit of staying in the publics mind by seeing your stor every day but does that really make up for increase in rent. By non traditional I was meaning not in a visable strip center...

Does anyone run a shop with non-traditional hours like Thurs, Fri, Sat Sun evenings only? Or does anyone run out of a non-traditional location that does not have visability?