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    Someone looking to buy my shop... What do I do?

    I went through the same thing 2 guys wanted to buy my place, come in for a few weeks and than take over… I asked for a deposit and they freaked out. I told them to hit the road… If your not giving me some money uo fron, non-refundable… than screw ya… I did end up selling to someone else but it...
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    Scared

    I would run away. I opened up about 2 and a half years ago. Nothing but a pain in the ass, employees stealing, giving away food, eating food, food vendors trying to rip you off, people coming in everyday wanting free food for donations… 14 he days 7 days a week. Even when your not there your...
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    Deck Oven ????

    Patriot'sPizza: What do you mean they are not true pizza ovens, We are in NY and these are the only kind of ovens we use… Deck oven are the best as far as I am concerned… Yes you need to pay attention and know what you are doing… Takes a little getting used to… Conveyor ovens are good because...
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    Anyone use a dough press?

    30 seconds more, lol only takes me a minute to make a plain cheese pizza, strech, sauce and cheese… When I first started off I thought about going with a dough press and than I started practicing tossing dough and you do not save anytime, once you learn to toss, its easy…
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    Sicilian Pizza . . .

    I make sicilians and they are 16 inch sq sauce and mozzarella. Any topping you would like. A real Sicilian woul just have sauce cheese and anchovies. No there is no thin crust Sicilian. T Tomato pie is just sauce and Romano.
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    Mozzarella

    Alotadough. I take it you are I love ny pizza. Paid 201 for sorrento today. My quote for vantaggio was 203. 12000 pizzas a month. Damn. I’m lucky to sell 1200 a month.
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    Mozzarella

    alotofdough where upstate are you located…
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    Mozzarella

    how can you being paying only 1.65 that is cheap I just paid 2.16
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    Cheese Pack Size

    pakula Im upstate and Buy Grande From Casa.
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    Cheese Pack Size

    Pakula, so your buying Grande from sysco… I have been buying from sysco for years and they cannot sell grande here in NYS. My rep told me they do not have a good rep with Grande…
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    Cheese Pack Size

    My cheese comes packed 45-49 PBS in a case. When did Sysco start selling grande.
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    Making a Precooked type Sausage from Bulk Raw

    WE go through about 30 lbs a week so what I do is cook off 10 lbs in my oven and use my cheese shredder on my hobart, shredding it when its hot and it come out nice and loose… I would never cook it raw on my pizzas.
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    One pizza maker shop volume?

    even with 2 ovens with only one guy making pizzas your probably not even gonna use the bottom oven by the time you have one pizza out you will just keep refilling it. your never gonna have 8-12 pizzas in the ovens at once. I would say one guy can produce 25-30 pies…a hour And thats if you dont...
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    sorrento cheese

    I have used Grande and do not see any point in using it… I guess I drank the Grande Haterade, I have used Saputo, Many house brands are packed by Saputo at a lower price, Vantaggio… I have used s Sorrento and I think it is a good product… it tends to brown pretty easily…
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    20oz vs Fountain

    Pepsi told me they would give me a fountain machine, well lets say its been a year and no machine… They lie there the worst company to deal with, I havent seen my pepsi sales rep since before I opened… Also she was suppose to give me tons of bonus points and merchandise… Sorry to get off topic…...
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    Hourly Rate for a Head Kitchen, etc

    I dont know what area your in butif you want a guy that is going to be a honest hard working guy, not a drunk crack head, than your going to pay… I have seen it all guys who have been in the business for 20-30 years and they cant even make dough… Lots of talkers… I would say hourly rates of...
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    Assistant Manager salary/hourly rate question

    55 hours a week salary of low to mid 20’s would be like working for 8 bucks a hour. Do they offer benefeits, vacation sick time Etc… I would say 600 to 650 a week would be a fair number. If your making 12-14 sometimes 18 why leave
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    Advertising help/ideas

    i did 2 mailers too the same 1000 addresses and i had about 12-15 percent return. I did another to a differant 1000 addresses and got back like 3-5 percent if that…
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    Advertising help/ideas

    where is everyone buying there door hangers, postcards, and color menus from. I have done direct mailing through idearc, it was like 600 dollars per thousand… I really have not been aggressive with door hanging so I think I will order some door hangers and send my delivery drivers out with them…...
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    Advertising help/ideas

    I need some help, I opened my pizzeria about 10 months ago and im very slow, I dont believe it is a quality issue as we use some of the best products. And people do call me after they try us to say it was the best pizza they have had etc, etc, etc… However we are in a small shopping complex that...
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