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For pricing, have you tried Roma or possibly Gordon’s? I don’t know if Gordon’s works in your area or not, but Roma certainly covered STL (assume they still would). I am not impressed with Restaurant Depot’s prices, especially since they don’t deliver.

I tried searching and came up with cost plus, interchange fees, etc. I’m mostly trying to figure out what percentage of each credit card transaction will be taken by any given processor. I’m also open to suggestions on who to use.

Piper: BINGO! There was some myth that tv shows created in the 70s and 80s where the father would come home after getting a raise only to find out that he makes less because of the higher taxes. To my knowledge, that was never actually how it worked.

One of the big things is how you enter a market. Let’s say you’re based in Colorado and decide to target St. Louis as a new market. You need to get multiple stores moving at the same time. You have to get marketing going and the only way to spend the necessary funds on marketing is to have...

beef != hamburger because often “beef topping” contains more than beef.

I’m about to whiz all over your fire. When you require a customer to purchase something to be entered to win, it’s a lottery – which means gambling. While the government has no issue with selling lottery tickets, don’t try it at home. You probably wouldn’t get much grief, but you COULD. To keep...

Sorry I’m a month late on this, but I read something last night that I thought might be useful. Thanks to Brad’s recommendation of “On Food and Cooking” by Harold McGee, I read on page 269 of the 2004 edition “In the case of precut lettuce for salads, enzyme activity and browning can be reduced...

Forget about payroll at first. Hang on, hear me out. Make sure you have good staffing levels, yes, overstaffed at first. Be sure not to overstaff in such as way that you have more bodies than room, but having more workers than work is fine (and desired at this point). When the rush subsides, you...

spell check subpoena before you print anything up 🙂 It’s a public street. You are completely powerless in this situation. The fact that the guy used to be your former landlord and you had issues, it wouldn’t surprise me if they’re parking in front of your store intentionally. One suggestion...

They definitely need longer aprons on each end. You can’t stand there and wait for the pizza to feed half way in so you could get the whole pizza on the deck. With those longer aprons, you run a bigger risk of heat loss on the stones though.

A lot of it depends on where you’re at. In some areas, this is somewhat “normal”. It’s rude, but sometimes, people just weren’t raised well. My mother-in-law will order tea, drink out of a dine-in glass, and then ask for a to-go cup. Around here, the restaurants will often ask you if you want a...

I knew they couldn’t be accurate across the board, as shipping cost of wood pellets certainly have a real cost associated. Supply and demand are certainly factors, but for instance, I’m in the land of the TVA and our electricity costs are great compared to other areas of the country.

This came from “This New House”, where they were talking about wood pellets as a clean-burning fuel. They listed these numbers as “Average cost per million BTUs”. I was quite surprised! Natural Gas $8.62 Wood Pellets $14.76 Heating oil $21.61 Propane $21.83 Electricity $31.37 I have no idea of...

Here is the problem I see with the vito system – what about the stuff at the very bottom of the tank? I’ve used the big roll-around oil filters, and while they’re cumbersome and annoying to clean, ALL of the oil leaves the tank, you rinse down the tank with filtered oil (to get EVERYTHING out)...

Back in a recent topic, old Brad couldn’t keep his two cents out of the conversation about why we rise, punch, rise. He recommended a book “On Food and Cooking” by Harold McGee. I found it to be quite reasonable ($25 for a new hardcover), so I ordered it. I’ve been reading it and reading it and...

Registered Guest: I’m not sure what you’re referring to. Are you speaking of the physical abuse? We run many call centers on voip. If the bandwidth is there, there are systems made to handle the volume of calls. From the physical abuse side, you shouldn’t let your employees abuse equipment.

So everyone can send hate mail to the right person, I deleted the ad. It had no information other than the name of the site, the person registered today to post a link to the site, and the site looks well, like it was quickly thrown together. A post with no information from a person with one...

A walk-in cooler has much more cold air than a reach-in cooler. If you fill up a reach-in cooler with warm dough, it will take a very long time for the dough in the center of the middle try to cool down.

Nick, I rented a kitchen from a bar for a while. Unfortunately, there’s really no useful information I can provide since it was a one-man operation, and more of a gentlemen’s agreement. Because I had mostly exclusive use of the kitchen, it was run as a separate business and such. Now that I’ve...

Thanks for the pix. Now I want to get after it. BTW, where did you get those pans? I have this nutty idea. If you shoved the dough through a sausage stuffer, I’d think the output would be this long rope of a consistent thickness. Cut to length (diameter may have to be adjusted) and voila! Of...