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Okay, I’m siding with the customer here. A veggie is a veggie is a veggie. If he called to order a veggie, they’re expecting the same danged veggies everyone else puts on. Now if a GREEN pepper were the issue, then it’d be on them as those are normal on a veggie pie. You pretty much accepted...

amnkeefe: NO, you cannot make it in this situation. It almost certainly cannot be done. Your wife needs a job first, THEN you can let her support you. That’s 2 years away. 67k is a recipe for failure, unless that’s 67k in CASH and you can get a loan about twice that big. I don’t think you...

Guys, the QUESTION was does anyone have one for sale, not what our opinions are :).

Bubba: Wow… rent as a percentage of sales is quite fair considering that they are driving the business to you. I don’t care that they don’t allow gas if they’re supplying the utilities. I’d submit that $900 a month for utilities on electric ovens is CHEAP. I understand the concerns about other...

Do you have any of the old ones? If so, fill a bag, weigh it… fill the same bag with the new fries and weigh it. I’d think that the smaller size would actually allow for more to fit in there as a smaller gap is needed for them to fit. As for flavor, google “french fry seasoning” and give some...

Delivery must be horrid. They’re located in the front of the store, so shoving pizza out the back door isn’t an option (which would be my preference). I think delivering from there is a HORRIBLE idea. McDonalds does well in Wal-Mart. The Pizza Hut/Target combo as well as the old Little...

jjerrier2450: Another thing you can do, is say instead of 5% of proceeds go to xyz school in cash, 15% goes to the school – in products. So, you’re making profit on both sides :).

papajgirl: Sure there is. Log out, then look at a topic. See the “email” button? Put your mouse over it and you’ll see the email address. Now, edit, view source. Edit, find, type in that email address. Did you find it? Well, it’s public, it’s available to anyone with READ access (and since you...

One thing I’ve gotten involved with recently is Texas Hold 'em Poker. Remember, I don’t own a restaurant – I just play. We have a group here whose business model revolves around the restaurant PAYING for us to come play. The owner of the poker group will pay out money to the winner at certain...

Re: Summer is half gone! Time to start school marketing plan Have any of you guys with dine-in facilities tried to pick up the after school crowd? I realize times have changed in the last 20 years, but a place to “hang out” after school would be nice. Naturally, you wouldn’t get rich off them...

Those aluminum tables look neat. I especially liked the ones that the top tilts over on. I’m not sure how USEFUL they’d be in real life, but it looks like a neat feature.

Figure out which items have the lowest food cost and position them accordingly. There’s a reason you’ll find the salad at the front of the buffet and pizza at the end – fill 'em up with the cheap stuff 🙂

One thing that you need to understand about these mixers is that they are gear driven and the motor outputs the same speed and output all the time. The Kitchenaid mixers (home use) simply adjust the amount of power that the motor gets to control speed. Think of it like a 10-speed bicycle. In...

Run it as a “lunch special” or have a seperate “lunch menu”. Many sit-down restaurants have a lunch menu and a dinner menu (or a lunch menu on the back of the dinner menu). If you’re trying to boost your lunch sales, then have it on the lunch menu at a lower price. Of course, I’m not sure this...

I’m trying to understand “cracking”. It almost sounds like you’re letting the dough rise without a covering, giving it a hard skin on top. This is how Little Caesars did it when I worked there, though I don’t recommend it at all. But if this is what you’re doing, you need to push the dough ball...

itnenaer: I can’t see any possible way. You need to heat the product fully, and lasagna is a pretty bulky product. I don’t see that an oven can thoroughly reheat quickly. The only other option I can see would be a steamtable to hold at a safe temp, but that’s keeping the product hot, not...

Diesel is a good buck more than unleaded and all this stuff gets shipped on semis. When you figure that Iowa is under water and it’s probably just going to go south, you’ve got ruined crops (lots of corn), etc. The tomato scare HOPEFULLY will make canned tomato prices drop through the floor...

Okay, have you approached your manager about possibly buying the store? With a decent down payment, he should have the experience required to get an SBA loan. It might be worth persuing.

Make it as easy on you as possible. You can either draw quadrants (or break up further) or you can use circles. You may want to go 2 blocks each way, target them hard, then go for block 3 each way, etc. The thing you MUST remember is that you’re trying to OWN an area. If you don’t keep...

So, you’re slicing the steak and I assume not “stacking” it or anything, so you have plenty of coverage area for seasoning. I’d say you’re using too little salt and pepper. You might try marinating the steak overnight in soy sauce. See if that gives a noticable flavor (it might be a flavor you...