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  1. tkelly248

    Pizzeria-Specific Start-Up Mentoring / Help Resources?

    If you buy rather than make, you are Dominos. If your are really busy you need bodies. Sometimes that means less than really good employees
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    Food Pans-Plastic or Aluminum?

    Fit always triumped for us. Long term it kept food cooler longer. We used original manufacturer pans
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    Cheese processing

    Clean up will take significantly longer
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    Dough Organization/Proofing

    We just used ‘saran wrap’ way cheaper. 1600’x24"
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    To go packaging

    I tried chinese food packaging. It worked very well but i ran into issues of supply during covid
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    I'm out. I closed today

    Yeah, was in there a week or so ago, to drop off some stuff that I had store in my garage. The fountain pop machine has an out of order sign, he said because it was out of ‘gas’. It was plugged up with so much sugar the tray was overflowing onto floor. (Ice machine drains there). I showed his...
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    I'm out. I closed today

    Yeah, he did. He just wanted to be a no show owner. When he finally understood that all his experienced employees were leaving, he called me at least a dozen times in one Saturday morning begging me to tell the employees to stay, one of which he told them to stay ‘another year’. They all...
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    I'm out. I closed today

    Just an update here: I sold to a person who had business experience in owning apartment buildings. I stressed all through the sale, closing and subsequent 40+ hours of training, that I was an owner operator, shopping, ordering, scheduling, cleaning, and payroll. He decided that those current...
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    Pizza ham options?

    We used a Berkel 12” similar to this: https://www.equippers.com/sentinel-12-gravity-feed-meat-slicer And this is the ham we used...
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    Pizza ham options?

    I used a Hormel 4x6 ham. We sliced and chopped to about 1" square
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    Dough Issues (Any Help)?

    How long do you cook for? What kind of oven? Do you have sugar in your recipe? What is temperature of oven? Do you use screens or pans?
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    Dough Issues (Any Help)?

    You should post your bakers percentages on your dough and your proofing process.
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    Tips and Payroll

    I paid tips in cash nightly off CC tips. For payroll I used QB payroll and they had a pay type that added the tips to an employee check to calculate taxes, then reverse to show that the employee already received the tips
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    I'm out. I closed today

    I hope everything works out for you.
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    I'm out. I closed today

    Good for you Mike! Any clue what the next gig looks like?
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    I'm out. I closed today

    I owned Lucky Duck Pizza in Waterford MI
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    Pros/cons drive thru window

    I think that is just a ‘can you pull up over there, we’ll bring it to you’. I think if I was building from scratch, it would be a doorway you can walk out to hand the pizza out
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    AI phone answering service

    Same with me. Not that it matters anymore 😎
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    AI phone answering service

    I didnt mind the robotic voice so much. I dont think they can handle half and half pizzas well enough. when i asked them for a full demo of ordering a 1st half 2nd half pizza they said they’d build it and get back to me. They never did
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    I'm out. I closed today

    I’m 65. If I was still 50, I’d be looking to open another location! Seriously what ruined it for me is labor market, I used to get 8-10 applications a week, at the end I was getting 1-2 per month and they lasted 2-3 days… I can’t count the number I hired during and interview that never even...
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