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Another $1500-$2000 and you could have a brand new Somerset rounder. Ask A&M if they have a blemished screw that they would sell you for a few hundred cheaper.

We had a good lunch and good dinner but late night was a dud. Nothing like being staffed up for record day and the phone not ringing.

I find my R-900 to be better than hand rolled as long as the doughballs are trayed right away. I personally haven’t used the Somerset rounder but I sold a store to another of our franchisees who had one. The store I sold him had an R-900 and he tells me they put out a close to identical finished...

My week after Christmas sucked last year until New Years Eve but we’ve had crazy days all week this year. I was out of town for Monday and Tuesday expecting them to be slow but I was very wrong.

My website is www.gatorfivestar.com and there’s a link to the online ordering from there.

It’s a separate URL that we link to from our website.

I’m not sure I’m ready for it but if the rest of this week is any indication, we will be rocking. It looks like we may be heading for our first ever $40K week.

Online ordering accounts for 20-25% of my business. We use the online ordering provided by our POS company, Microworks Prism. It’s fully integrated and mostly works well but from time to time there’s a small hicup, but at the volume we are at, I would never consider using an online provider that...

We have a few of the indys that have been here for 30-40 years that rock as well. While the personal service is certainly a part of their success, to an extent that’s only possible if you’ve been around so long. After 30-40 years you are serving generations of the same family, you’ve watched...

I believe that Haloween is crazy busy for my store when it falls on a Thursday, Friday or Saturday but not so crazy when it falls on a Monday. I’m still staffed and prepped up for a big day but I’m only expecting 30% more than a typical Monday.

Looking at the link, this company seems to label their mixers differently. They say Their 44 KG mixer can mix 1 bag of flour and has a 40 quart bowl. No chance of fitting 168 pounds of dough in a 40 quart bowl. Hard to see fitting 50 lbs of flour in a 40 quart bowl for that matter. I’ve never...

Many of the spiral mixers I see, even the small ones, are 3 phase. I assume your truck won’t be set up for 3 phase so begin by targeting what mixers are manufactured in your desired size range and have electrical sprcs that you can work with. If your truck isn’t set up to run 220 volts, you will...

The busiest store in our company was right in the path of Hurricane Matthew. Most of their town was out of power today and they opened for carryout only with generators powering their lights, computers, ovens, walk in ect. There was no phone and no internet. After an afternoon of 100-200 dollar...

This particular business had profit right about 15% and would be considered high volume.

Bodegahwy is a business broker so he can give you more info in regards to working with a broker. My only relevant experience here comes from selling one of my pizza businesses to another franchisee in the same company a little over year ago. I valued the business at about 3.1 times the owners...

we cut the 6LB blocks into 3 or 4 pieces and use 4 full blocks per batch of cheese. This fills up the 8" bus bins that we store the cheese in. I have also used a VCM to make dough and also now use a spiral mixer. Where are you located, maybe there’s someone on the Think Tank thats with driving...

Try contacting Star Pizza Box. They are headquartered in Lakeland, Florida but I think they may have multiple facilities and distribute all over. They do a lot of single store operations.

A buddy who owns a place doing triple my sales stopped by for some drinks as he was driving through. I asked how much he was working and he laughed and said that the fewer hours he worked the busier his shop became. I’m hoping to follow in his footsteps but am having a bit of trouble letting go...

We take the loss. I’ve probably gotten close to $1000 over the 19 years in business. In my mind, if you aren’t giving your drivers the tools to detect a counterfeit, as well as the time to check each and every bill at every address it is wrong to charge them for one they accept.

The CME cheese block market is up 8.5 cents per pound over the last two days. In a few weeks I’ll be paying over $2.00 per pound. I sure am glad to not be selling 5 buck pizzas.