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royster13: What makes adding a 25 cent charge to a CC any different than having a Delivery Fee? I know all the gas stations used to have a “Discount for cash”, I think it was like 3 cents a gallon. I have an online ordering site I use for campus (www.hungrybuffs.com) and they have a “processing...

I would say do it! $750 is not all that expensive and I tried getting rid of my hanging menu boards and just go to hand held and customers just get miffed and I feel they may not be ordering all they could when in store. “Font is too small” is a common complaint. I am building new boards as we...

All 3 stores are up vs last year so far but I will say that it is slower than I expect (which means we really were bad last year). Monday through Thursday this past week sucked harder than a $10 crack whore but thankfully the huge weekend sales saved me. Papa Johns, which was all but dead in...

For years and years I had done $2 per order and also awarded the winning class with a 5 large pizza party. Participation had gotten really low and since we are a Delco I decided to change it to 20% (pretax and delcharge) and that seemed to kick start it once again. Measuring the $ I am donating...

Great service is always a winning proposition. Just make it a point in your advertising. Topper’s Pizza has their slogan “We Come Fast, No aplogies” Big Dave has always relayed his story of when Dominos opened in his town that he started advertising 29 minutes etc. I have a goal of under 14...

Best book ever for managing and motivating a young staff is http://www.amazon.com/Flowers-Rewards-Contests-Incentives-Employee/dp/0971657300 Send Flowers To The Living by TJ Shier. I re-read it at least twice a year.

pizzapiratespp: is that with all taxes and prep? My in-store (Drivers-Managers-Cooks) % goals are 20% but with taxes and prep we are 27%-30% Food is 28%-35% depending on cheese and we count virtually everything in that. If I could sell more at regular prices I would 3% less. But alas competing...

closed early on Christmas Eve closed Christmas day and closed early (8PM) last night and still my residential store in Longmont broke 20k for the week! Gonna be over 100k for December posting nearly 10% vs last year!!! Congrats on your success up there! 100% full occupancy means people are back...

Congrats! I too had awesome nights in 2 of my shops! We wont talk about Boulder!

i am a franchisee (currently).

still about 1.5¢ per piece cheaper than standard CART-SORT if you pay for addressing.

I have doing texts for about 6 months now. About 8 months ago others in my chain did it they way being sued over. They were told it was OK by the text company. Claiming that since they had done business with you they have opened the relationship and so long that you give them an opt out chance...

paul7979: I do get big breaks on my insurance coverages and my employees work in all stores (some never do but many). Might be too late to seperate them. They do have seperate bank accounts and such…FEIN and SCorp same though. But I also read that even if I had 3 seperate since I am the common...

I read that if your total number of employees is over 50 but your FULL TIME (30+ hours weekly) is not that the remainder of those employee hours will be pooled together. Does anyone know if that is true? As it stands I have 31 FT with a total of 75 employees. If that above statement is true...

pizzanerd: Awesome post! That is the same way PR does it too.

Patriot'sPizza: Sorry - i had some personal baggage in my reply. 😃 Recent changes with the Franchise system I am with - Franchisor has changed hands and the new “owners” own several small regional chains, one of which is Papa Romanos (Papa’s Pizza 2 Go and Breadeaux Pizza as well).

In my campus shop where i have some offers for 12" 1 topping pizzas for $4.99 I run average of 32% food. Depending on your pricing model I would say your doing well. But food % is not how you make money in this business. I have a buddy who runs 39% but since he does well over 30K a week in sales...

Patriot'sPizza: Since Jets and Papa Romanos are 100% that style I am guessing you have never had Lombardi’s…It is truly not very popular outside of Michigan though.

Jets and Papa Romanos are this “Detroit Style”. Dough not made with High Glutten Flour. “fried” pizza for sure.

I did decide to try them out with advertising. I got ZERO new reviews and negative ones were never removed. I do use the Yelp app on my phone when I am in a new town to help me find food options. I do read the reviews, but being in the business myself I also try to sift through some of the BS...