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    Your sales in first year?

    My first year, 2011 to 2012, was very slow, and heartbreaking. I kept doing what I could confined to my 4 walls, work 16 hour days, 7 days a week, and did a part time job to make ends meet. I don’t remember the exact sales for a year, but it was less than $100,000. My sales are still not...
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    Prevention pos yes or no?

    I have used Revention Point of Sale for several years (4 Station + Kitchen Display). I have had one or two hiccups related to billing (not their fault, put a new bank card on file late and bank declined the charge as potential fraud since it was technically two payments for the same amount). The...
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    Labor Help Please!

    Essentially, or a manager on a lower salary higher bonus structure. Someone who will be as hungry for the success as you. In my humble opinion
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    Labor Help Please!

    So my business differs quite a bit from yours, but I figured I’d share mine with you to see if it can help you any. We are delivery / carry out only, operating from 11 AM to 10 PM 7 days a week, and only volume about 7 - 8 per week. We are unfortunately in a very competitive market, with a very...
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    Issue with Pizza Prep Table

    My pizza prep table has been having trouble cooling as of late (barely able to reach ~38), and during the rush would struggle to bring back down to temperature. I originally attributed to the extra hot Florida weather, an issue with the air conditioning unit at our new location. Had our...
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    Direct Mail best time periods

    As Royster said, there are lots of factors that come in to play. For me and my market, I found the best results come from sending them for in home days of Wednesday and Thursday. Monday people are exhausted after returning to their work week, and aren’t really going to take the time to “digest”...
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    POS Search - Delivery, ETAs, & Loyalty

    I have used Revention Point of Sale for about 4 years now. The only issues I have ever had with them was with a billing error, but they ended up ultimately going above and beyond to fix it. Lots of indepth reporting options, does all the things you are looking for, and then some. If it’s...
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    what metrics do you look for when finding a location

    I know when I was working as an area supervisor for a large chain, I got to scout a few possible locations for them. They used to estimate $1/month per household within a 5 mile radius of the store, as monthly sales. Where this came from, I could not tell you, but all the stores I was...
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    Carryout-only discount

    Do you have online ordering? If so, consider running the promo as an Online Only Carry Out option. It should garner more ROI, especially if a link to your website is present, due to the ease of access. In addition, you are leaving it in the hands of those ordering to place the deal, so you are...
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    Sign Shaking - What is everyone's thoughts?

    My background in a brief nutshell: Worked for a large chain who routinely had a banner shaker 7 days a week from 11 to 2, and 4 to 7. Honestly don’t really remember EXACTLY how well it worked, but it worked well enough for us to do it. I opened my small independent late 2011. My location was...
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    Switching Cheese from Grande

    @Cdino We ended up making the switch from Grande to Bacio after several blind taste tests that were overwhelmingly in favor of the Bacio. Better melt, creamier taste, cheaper cost, was a no brainer. On an unrelated side note, and forgive the bluntness, but I’m always suspect of someone whose...
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    how many ounces of cheese?

    This is really going to differ based on many different factors, but I used 10oz ov Bacio Diced on mine
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    Employee Leasing

    Anyone current go through employee leasing for their payroll? Do you find the admin side / protection worth the value, or would you put the money elsewhere?
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    Pizza Skins on Rack

    Richard, not sure what your process is but this is how we do it. When we make our dough we do an edge / crust lock, then do a slight edge stretch, before docking it then slapping it out. We found by racking it just after docking, but before actually slapping out, they would last 45+ minutes...
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    Potential Opportunity - Thoughts Requested

    jtopicz, Not sure what part of Florida you live in and / or the shop is (from your profile) but I run small independent DELCO in southwest Florida. Here are my initial thoughts: You mentioned the COGS as 32% estimated. I am not sure if you’re included all Food, cleaning, packaging, etc, but...
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    Delivery Insurance

    I am not an insurance agent, and my information should not be taken as complete and accurate. However I know from our personal experience you are referring to “Non Owned Auto Insurance”, but it sounds like you may be slightly misinformed as to what it actually is. Your driver’s insurance...
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    Revention POS - Enterprise Solutions

    Patrick, I have used Revention for about 4 years now, including Enterprise solutions. I am only a single unit operator, but nonetheless find it absolutely vital to my business. I would be more than happy to speak with you via phone or chat, and set you up with access to mine to take a look, and...
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    Unsliced vs Pre Sliced Meats

    I am curious to hear from other operators which method you prefer, to buy and slice your own meats, or to purchased pre sliced meats. In my limited experience so far, only about a year and 10 to 15 pounds of meat per week, I find myself stuck on calling one better than the other. By slicing our...
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    Vantiv Credit Card Processing

    Well apparently I should be very thankful my pizza skills are better than my forum searching skills lol Thank you!
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    Vantiv Credit Card Processing

    Anyone have any experience with these guys? Everything I’ve looked up has been very mixed reviews from highh praises to avoiding them like the plague. They are currently offering me interchange + .20% + .10 per transaction.
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