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Butchypizza1: What does the $11.00 price include? What size and how many toppings? With that information everybody will have a better picture. If your pizza COGS are less than the 48%, then yeah increasing your pizza sales will lower your overall COGS. I have to guess that the COGS percentages...

Butchypizza1: Being overstaffed at the beginning is not necessarily a bad thing, and I would argue is necessary. But, after three months you (or the GM) should be starting to find a groove. At some point you need to get the sales up, or the labor down. I would say at 3 months in, you’re...

pizzadoodle: pizzadoodle: pizzadoodle: If you want bang for your buck, the first thing you need to do is invest in a POS system. The lowest hanging fruit in this business is your existing customer base. You need to be sending them direct mail (or e-mail) long before you start an EDDM...

When we opened a second location we purchased a VCM because we thought it would be much better for cheese, and we figured we would be able to adapt our dough to the VCM. Unfortunately, we were never able to do that. The VCM made good dough, but we were never able to get the same dough and crust...

If you figured your price by multiplying your cost by 3, I’d say it’s about right that you have a 35% food cost. Pricing a menu item only has a little to do with what the item cost you. Prices need to be set by the demand for an item. You need to find the “sweet spot” where profit is maximized...

December: This is what I’m interested in. For those of you that have closed for a vacation, did you still pay your employees? I can’t imagine saying “I’m going on vacation, and you’re not getting paid for a week.” I would like to do something like this. I can get away for a vacation if I want...

We don’t cut in the box because over 60% of our business is dine-in. We use these: http://www.webstaurantstore.com/america … P1823.html After 9 years of cutting a few hundred thousand pizzas, they still pretty much look like the day we bought them. I think they’re the only smallware I haven’t...

bodegahwy: Steve took the question right out of my mouth. I was approached by a company selling the key card advertising for two hotels in my delivery zone, and I would have needed to buy 50,000 of them for EACH property.

Patriot'sPizza: My favorite things in life, in order: My two children My Point Of Success software My wife I’m kidding of course… one of the kids may still end up below Point Of Success.

I’m still pretty young, but I can say with near certainty that one day around retirement age I will look back at my entire career - both restaurant related and not - and still consider opening a second location to be my biggest error. Pizzamancer said exactly what I learned from the process… If...

SESAC is pretty small compared to BMI and ASCAP. Just don’t play any of their catalog and you don’t have to pay them a penny.

UncleNicksPizza: I understand what you’re saying, but you’re saying it as an outsider to the situation. The family probably doesn’t agree that it’s the local pizza shop’s responsibility to share their hardship with the “community”. I assure you this family is having a very hard time already...

royster13: If the driver had run into a burning building and saved a child, then you call the media. You do not call the media to use somebody’s extremely sad and unfortunate domestic situation, where it sounds as a two year old may be being neglected, to help you sell another pizza. And if...

What the heck? I’d be at $8.36 for 504oz!?

My god am I’m overpaying for boxes!

boatnut: No, less profit. Your food cost percentage is lower when they buy one, but you make less profit (unless you have the most inefficient kitchen in the history of pizza making.) You should want everybody to buy two at the discount, er “non-premium”, price. More money in your pocket...

Well you don’t seem to ever answer any questions, but I’m going to ask one more time, directly, and then be on my way: Why is giving a 23% discount for ordering two pizzas at your place not “discounting”?

boatnut: Where you’re losing me is the assumption that putting a bundle deal on a coupon or running a family special on Tuesday nights is somehow mutually exclusive with focusing on quality, or is somehow congruent with “selling by price”. I disagree. Trust me, my place is a long way from...

boatnut: Where you’re losing me is the assumption that putting a bundle deal on a coupon or running a family special on Tuesday nights is somehow mutually exclusive with focusing on quality, or is somehow congruent with “selling by price”. I disagree. Trust me, my place is a long way from...

boatnut: Same for Little Caesar’s, home of the most price-motivated customers in the pizza universe. You brought up Little Caesar’s the last time the board had this discussion, and how their $5.00 price is discounting. According to your definition, however, it isn’t because it’s their everyday...