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thanks Joe. I look forward to your visit and know how hard it is to get away. We still only know the route to the shop, grocery store, home 🙂 We use a small vendor for the pepperoni who doesn’t distribute. I have used ezzo back east. Walter

we are deck oven, small, NY, artisan pizza, and doing great. To me the art goes out with the conveyor oven approach and profit is top concern. We made #46 in the USA in the yearly Yelp ratings so it is possible for small artisan shops to make a decent living. The less employees and sq ft the...

We can’t believe it and seeing that Yelp is totally customer rated with owners not being able to alter reviews makes it all the nicer. Thanks everyone for a wonderful 1st year. It shows mom/pop operations can still make it in this world of franchises 🙂 Walter/Judy...

Thanks. We celebrated our 1 year anniversary last week and are still on time with the rent checks 🙂 Walter

Most places make you put in a grease interceptor which is an outside below ground tank vs. the old school traps that attached to sink drains. I know the interceptors are not cheap to put in and the difference in the 2 can be many thousand dollars. Walter

One of the most famous and busiest pizzerias in the NYC area Joe and Pat’s (Staten Island) use a fish oven. Walter

This is our first year in Reno (Jan 6th the 1 year anniversary). Last week was almost double normal and this week is shaping up to be the same. Or maybe we are just getting more popular :)?? Walter

For a NJ boy breakfast pizza is cold leftover pie in the fridge 🙂

We charge a top price for our pies and people don’t blink an eye at spending $40 for a large pie. About 40% of our customers are NY/NJ/PA/CT transplants and would never eat conveyor oven pizza calling itself NY. They also never ask about specials/coupons and spread the word like wildfire. A...

For a true NY pizza you have to use a deck oven. No NY/NJ pizza lover is going to support a conveyor oven NY style pizzeria. The ovens are the key to the mojo and the sound of doors opening closing is a must 🙂 I love our old blodgett 1000’s as they evenly cook top/bottom with no rotating. They...

pepperoni sausage mushrooms all in various combinations and plain cheese pizzas are a close 4th. Walter

I am sure you will figure out the new ovens but may have to use screens for part of the bake as well as rotate. I sent you a message asking if you still had the 1000’s and if they are for sale. Walter

I don’t know of a newer deck oven that you don’t have to rotate the pies. I know many people having to use screens as well with newer deck ovens. This is one reason I love our 1000’s - no rotating/even top bottom browning. Walter

Taking over a struggling shop takes time to re-establish it as good one. People drive by, see that it is reopened, and often say “that last business was terrible” and drive on. We took over a spot that had over 10 different food places in it including 3 pizzerias in the last 10 years. People...

We offer no specials as it would move us into a different rung of pizzeria. We are a small shop with my wife and I doing most of the work and our prices need to stay set for us to continue and still have a life. Fortunately people don’t blink an eye at our prices and lack of specials and most...

We opened 10 months ago with no paid advertising but the media covered it. I held off the TV for 3 months because it was just too crazy busy. We continue to have ongoing media stories but thankfully things have slowed down to a wonderful pace that our old bones (60 and 64) can handle. Another...

We use deck ovens and sell slices during lunch (cheese and pepperoni only). We bake the pies normally and then display them and reheat on the deck when ordered to crisp the slices. This brings them back to near perfect and only takes a minute or so. Walter

I know how it feels to leave something you build up from nothing with your sweat and it never was able to reach its full potential. I did that with my 25 as a special education teacher and the businesses I built out of my classroom. Sometimes things just aren’t meant to be so as to lead one to...

congrats! Everything comes to an end and it is a wise man who realizes when that time comes. Walter

Roy: I would avoid Thunderbird like the plague. The mixers are made in China and it ended up costing us over 1k for “restocking” fees. The company made us feel terrible too - accused us many times of making up the problems. I would go with an older hobart with none of the digital controls. FYI...