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It might be a waste of money. Do the customers receiving your menu already have one from last time they ordered? Are there coupons on your menu that they can use to make keeping it worthwile? How recent is the menu you are putting on there - is it the same menu you have been using for a year, or...

We give coupons / discounts for online only orders. Train your customers to order online. They will spend more and save you time on the phones. Less chance for mistakes - that is how THEY placed the order. Online orders 28% of orders last month, 37% of sales.

What is the best way to make garlic knots?

I think the cost of those would not be worth it. Plus then they have to be washed. They are going to crack / break after so much use also. Plastic wrap is much easier.

You will understand why we spray the top if someone doesn’t do it and you have to tear/rip the plastic wrap off the top. 6oz dough balls - 15/tray 9oz dough balls (in video) - 12/tray 14oz = 11 19oz = 8 54oz = 3 You could maybe squeeze more on a tray, but I much prefer to work with dough balls...

Here is a youtube video of our rolling / wrapping.

We use sheet pans. Spray the pans with pan spray. Place dough balls. Spray tops of dough balls with pan spray. I have tried brushing with pomace oil in the past. IIRC, the dough tended to bubble up more than when we spray them. Use 24"x2000’ plastic wrap. Costs $18 at the depot (which is much...

Thank you for your reply, MSG. No one else has any input?

Hey everyone. Just looking for some input here on what you guys do for training. We are a DELCO, serving pizzas, wings, salads, subs, pasta, breads. Our long time policy has been to cross train everyone, including drivers. However we have run into issues where employees are just mediocre for a...

If you sell wings, do you allow this request? We have been allowing it and adding an upcharge for a few years, but it really bothers me. I am not picky, so flats vs drums I could care less. However, the next customer after someone orders all flats (gets 1 or 2 lbs) is going to suffer because...

Check with your health department. Ours has specific limitations and instructions on serving dogs. Dogs are prohibited from being served food and may only be served water in a disposable dish. Signs must be posted, etc. Before opening up a can worms look into this before you have to backtrack on...

If you say that your dough does not have much taste to it, have you tried increasing your salt and sugar? We use 2% sugar and 1.75% salt. With IDY (what we use) you should not need to let it bloom in water. ADY you would, but not IDY. We are at 0.75% IDY. Hopefully someone else will chime in!

Same here. Only if power is out or roads are too snowy (where the police tell us to close) do we close early. Confuses customers. If you are really that slow maybe you need to close earlier in general. Don’t forget, it is winter now. Busy for 3 hours during dinner and then dead the rest of the...

Ok, just curious because I feel like this would be a much more labor intensive (although better product) than the way we make our breads now. Have you tried prepping them into the pizza pan, then putting them into the cooler and holding until they are ordered? Cooking straight from cold.

Do you pre-prep these? Cut and toss to order?

You may need to use warmer water when making your dough if the temperature is colder in the shop. Another option, but wouldn’t be my preferred is to use a bit more yeast. How much yeast and what kind do you use in your dough now?

And you throw away the steam pan? Include that in your cost. Not sure about your trash co, but I know pizza boxes (because of grease) aren’t accepted in residential recycling. I wouldn’t think they would appreciate a greasy box messing up their process. On the other hand, you mention precooking...

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Your 14" pizza is .0909 oz of dough per sq inch (14/154) Your 16" pizza is .099 oz of dough per sq inch (20/201) …depending on which pizza you like the crust more on, you could make some changes. If your 14" is more ideal than your 16 than you could change the weight of your dough ball on the...

Do you already offer online ordering? If so, encourage it in your advertising. Offer a coupon for online orders ONLY on your ads. We started with 25% off, now we offer a 10% off online order coupon pretty standard. This month 25% of our orders have been online for 31% of our sales.