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I can’t comment on how various juristictions dole out licenses, or the cost of licenses, since all are different … but let me try to answer the question of whether your business would benefit from it. Absolutely!!! If you had the option of going out for pizza at 2 places, both with great pizza...

This is an old picture from their FB site showing a Pizza Patron (franchise) owner endorsing the Precision mixer … if you can enlarge the picture, you’ll be able to see his thoughts. Also, maybe a call to him to see how it’s holding up might be in order. Another post there is from a New York...

A couple of thoughts: 1) You mention a lease at “5 plus 5 year option” … does that mean that there are 5 years remaining on the original lease, with 5 more years as an option? Paying a premium for the business when there is a below market lease in place (that is also fixed for many years) is...

Sounds like it’s time to sit down and draw up a list of questions … then, the answers will likely provide at least one good answer to the question. My first reaction is to the opportunity from the prospective new landlord … you need to evaluate that location in depth (local demographics, etc)...

Yeah, some of Bodega’s comments and questions are spot on. These numbers don’t give me any confidence whatever. You mentioned that it’s possible that some of the pizzeria and catering costs have been intermixed, and this gives rise to so many more questions about the likelyhood that ANY of the...

This looks suspiciously like the home clothes wringer that Edison was working on … shredded clothes like a machete. He later changed his marketing scheme for it and sold thousands for boat anchors … do you have a boat?

Are you saying that you want it to rise AGAIN after having been par-baked and frozen?

Yep, you’re too harsh. It’s his first EVER offense … he may have an excuse, but even if he doesn’t, he deserves the opportunity to say he’ll not do it again. Good help (and you’ve described him as even better than good) is very hard to find. I say he gets another chance, and I’m bettin he shows...

Thanks. We sell tons of fries and we make our own chips too, so any improvement should help … and the price seems to be reasonable too.

We usually replace our deep fryer oil twice each week … it’s a 40 pound floor model, and we deep fry several products, but mostly lots of house-made fries. We’ve never used an antioxidant oil stabelizer, like Myroil Frypowder to extend the useful life of our vegetable oil, but it is something we...

Now we see that there is another pizza joint next door??? Getting more bizarre as we go along. And only a year left on a lease, with one 5-year option … how vital is the location (foot traffic, car traffic, etc.). There sure are a lot of red flags here. I can appreciate that you want to learn...

Have you ever won a game of Whack-A-Mole at an arcade? Sounds like thats what you are trying to pull off here. Go back to read my earlier suggestion about getting written food distributor conformation of their flour and cheese purchases over a 12 month period (shorter term periods could be...

I would never accept the operating numbers from anyone who tries to justify their selling price by asking me to believe their under the table, off the record, beat the tax guy, cash sales puffing fiction. If they would obfuscate their sales numbers to cheat the tax guys, why wouldn’t they also...

Several thoughts: 1) I agree with tguag when he reccomends that you come up with a name that distinguishes you from the bar … like he said “XYZ Pizza @ Joe’s Bar”, so that when the “partnership” gets rocky (all partnerships do), you can keep your valuable identity for marketing purposes, 2) Get...

One more thought. When discussing your renewal, how about adding a paragraph saying that IF the A/C must be replaced, and you accept the cost of that replacement, your monthly rent would be reduced by X (I don’t know, $300/mo, $500/mo, $1,000/mo) until the your cost can be recovered … if this...

The landlord will, of course, try to extend your lease under the same terms that require you to pay for whatever will be needed to keep the place as cool as you want it. But the renewal period is going to be your only shot at avoiding a big replacement cost issue. If it helps, your landlord is...

I’m confused. You say that it will be a new location “pick up/togo only”, but then you said “Since we are doing mostly delivering …”. Tell us exactly what it is that you plan to do. Will it be pick up/togo, delivery or both?

Is it chili “soup” or “hot dog” chili that you’re considering? In my mind there’s a huge difference.

The issue of stimulating existing employees to take direction from a new manager doesn’t have to be difficult. Experience has shown me that if the owner holds an initial employee meeting (it’s mandatory, and everyone is ON the clock) to enthusiastically introduce the new manager, review his/her...

That ship has sailed. Over 100% of sales were paid with credit cards here last year. I know it sounds hard to believe, but when you include server tips and sales tax, the total that the fees are calculated on totaled MORE than sales. Robbers would probably have more success with an ice cream...