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We change up our specials every quarter. Tuesdays special for July-Sept is that every order over $20 gets a chance for $100 gas card in a monthly drawing. They write their name on their receipt and put it in a jar and we’ll pull a name on the last day of the month.

Hi! I am doing my books and looking to offset the cost of min wage. It will mean an additional $8500/yr and I am not absorbing this. I am looking at my options every which way from Sunday and one of them is to cut out the free refills. What are your thoughts? Since I have been doing it, will I...

Thank you all for your suggestions. We are in the middle of the project to see what each and every menu item is costing us. Take care!

Hello- We have been in business for 2 years and are doing pretty well, but in light of the escalating costs and increasing min wage, we are going over our costs with a fine tooth comb. Our food costs are at 36.7% Of which, 34.06% is food and 2.64% is beverage. I tell hubby this is high and he...

Yes, we really stress upselling. They do. I’m also changing up my specials to having most of them an add on instead of $ off… We are relatively new, just had our 2 year anniversary 😃 , and did alot of specials to get people in. Now that we hooked em, we are going to back off alot of the specials...

Nick, you must have read my mind! I was thinking about posting same issue… I’ve been looking at my numbers and while I am getting more people in my store, they are spending less. My average transactions has increased, but my average ticket has decreased… Well, at least they are still coming in...

The reimbursement rate was upped to 50.5 for 2008.

Sorry won’t be me either… we would love to have you, but we are in Western PA… Maybe next road trip :lol:

Thank you, and Good Luck 😃

We have Lunch Specials and Daily Specials that we change up every quarter. View them on my site at www.dontespizzeria.com Any more info, just ask!

Hi- You can look at my party menu on my site. www.dontespizzeria.com We do about 2-3 parties a week in our party room. It holds up to 30 people. I let them have the room for 2 hours and spend a minimum of $70 People love it. Let me know if you want any more info - I’m glad to share!

http://www.pmq.com/news/news.php?id=12213 Gearing up for our first Fundraiser! I usually get asked for Donations, now I’m turing the tables… hope it goes well! Any advice, my ears are open… and so is the wallet if you want to contribute to ABOARD 😃 By the way, did you read about Donte’s in the...

I had thought about having a free popcorn in our game room as a cute touch, but decided against it for a few reasons. I didn’t want them to get filled up on popcorn and not order fries, cheese stix, breadstix, etc I didn’t want them to eat the popcorn and get thirstier, as we offer free refills...

Make sure you have on your menu “menu items and pricing subject to change without notice. rev 2/08” I just raised prices and have 500 menus. I continue to give them out until they are gone - can’t affird to throw money away. I make sure my website is updated with the new prices, though (even...

Thanks Nick - your words of wisdom helped :idea:

We do upsell. All of our employees upsell - it’s cute to see 16 yo boys do it - they do try, which is all I can ask, really. I think what “hurts” us is that we have $5 lunches that account for about 20% of our sales per day. Mu hubby and I were thinking about separating before 4pm tickets with...

I thought I was doing good at $13/ticket, but after reading these answers, I am depressed :cry: We are an indy with dine in/take out only (no delivery) our large 16" pies sell for 10.75, i see some of your pies are more than this how do i compare apples to apples to see if my average ticket...

instawares.com i found they had decent prices

Check out my specials on my site at www.dontespizzeria.com Plus, if you PM me your email, I will send you an attachment for our new specials starting 2/1

We are smaller than you, but were in the same boat. Our dine in area was 1200 SF, and the place next door was available - another 1200 SF We opened it as additional dining with arcade style games. It can also be booked for private parties - at a 2 hour minimum with at least a $70 food order...