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Of little help but In the UK everywhere is FREE delivery, charging is almost unheard of. However if you collect you gonna expect a deal, again Dominos and co are responsible for this. Why not offer free delivery when you first open up the store for the first 1000 deliveries, that way you get...

We to our having a good January, usually it is a miserable month for us and kicking myself for not booking a holiday. However we have already taken what we usually do, so we should be up 25% - 30% by the end of the month. Looking forward to Feb, when all those New Year resolutions are broken...

Express supplies are very good quality and service, trying UED next week as they have got some products that I like the look of. Not heard of quality tops but I am happy with Express.

Small world, I live in Lingfield, Surrey. Make sure you get everything right from the outset, only one first impression. Let me know where you are when you up running and I will drop in a taste the second best pizza in the UK :lol:

On the east sussex/kent border. Small town delco.

I am in the UK with an electric deck oven, I couldn’t tell you how much the oven juices out of the wall as it take 30mins to heat up and then the thermostat kicks in regularly. We are doing an energy audit at the moment and utility companies are amazingly coy at showing prices. At current we...

Short Answer : Yes Long Answer : Being the best tasting, as Dave pointed out, is very subjective. We have the best in the area by far, but we are not the busiest YET 😉 To make a successful pizza place you need more than great food, you need atmosphere, marketing, convienience etc. There are...

Consistency is king, if you cheap/discount to attract customers, thats the custom you will get. Trying to then convert them to higher prices is a fruitless exercise. I recently posted the exact same problem as you and the kind advice TT and others gave was don’t drop price and I now can see why...

We are going to be making our own cookies with the sole intention of advertising. We are never going to be busy enough in-store to make a worthwhile amount on cookies, however I have agreed with the local sub and convienience stores to stock our branded cookies that will be in sealed pack with...

We too close Sunday for simple reason to see family and friends, it can’t be all work work work. If turnover would allow a duty manager I would be open 7 days. Also depends on your competition, if they are closed a certain day then it may open up an oppurtunity for you, although you may find it...

We were going to splash out on uniforms this month, but we are now doing 75% of our business as delivery. So we are going for a few branded jackets for the delivery drivers and then leave a simple t-shirt and pants code.

We had a similar problem, rolling the dough was fine unless the inevitable influx of hungry people turn up and it got embarrisingly slow. Instead of getting a sheeter we trained some staff to hand stretch, which was a far cheaper option and worked out so much better. We can now get the pizzas...

Until you have become a well known destination business renowned for your limited pizza, pulling customers from out of town to purchase your food, I don’t think you can get away with a small menu. Although subs are in the food industry and all our pizza equipment/product allows us to do subs...

We tried the ‘No Discount, simple honest pricing’ at first. Certainly didn’t work for us, we since have increased prices so they can have a combo or discount. Since then more sales, and strangely enough people are paying more for what they were taking away three months ago but commenting on what...

Merry Christmas from the UK, few of us on TT it would seem. Thanks for all your help and ideas and enjoy your well deserved time off.

I am currently creating a custom POS system for our store to help create a constant marketing routine, I have only seen basic POS and keep coming up with ideas that I think will be helpful. For instance, my POS now once the kitchen slip is printed, will print on the back of a nice color...

@vernon - I gather from another thread you are a fellow Brit. If you intend to start a pizza store in the UK you will find a 5% return rate is very high. Although I’m in no way expert yet, it is widely regarded a 1%-2% is about what you can expect, so you will need to find other ways to get...

I can’t believe many people read newspapers that much, let alone sift through all the litter inside. However I would say it is worth trying anything to get the word out about your product that you haven’t tried before and see what happens. Always though, track your response rate and keep...

Yep, did it myself including all the online ordering. When we started with the DVDs and pizzas their wasn’t a POS that could handle both so I picked up web programming, one of the many hats I now wear as a pizza store owner. @pizza_garden - I disagree with not tracking website, especially now I...

These sort of employees drive me mad, they are so good at most things and think you got a potential manager but then they do work that I am not happy with. I don’t think I have ever managed to mold any employee into the perfect ideal. You have to take the bad with the good, keep the real...