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rent should never go over 12%. We pay about 7.2% of sales.

Maybe I looked over it, but do you account for salaried managers, or is this taken care of by your wife and yourself? We look at 14-16% for hourly staff and roughly 9% for salaried managers. So the 25% projection that was posted isn’t a bad figure to shoot for. If you have no manager expense...

I am wondering the same thing. We’re actually currently debating between going with a deck over or Rotoflex. Obviously the first option will save us between $12,000 and $20,000 depending on the deck, but does anyone feel that the quality of the Rotoflex is above and beyond anything else?

I’m interested, how did people handle their own health insurance needs when they first started up a store? I don’t plan on providing health insurance to any employees as my business partner and I will be GMing the store ourselves; however, I’m coming from a government job where I’ve never had to...

They do a very good job of eliminating any spam that comes onto this site. I think it’s inevitable that you’ll run into persons pushing products or services, but this isn’t always a bad thing and is not the norm. As long as you use your best judgement, it’s pretty easy to figure out who’s legit...

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Some great points. Thanks a lot Tom and I’m sure I’ll keep people informed as we approach the opening of our store.

I’m curious, does anybody see any benefit in delaying your heavy marketing until a month or so after opening? I’ve given some thought to taking that first month for breaking in employees rather than overwhelming them with business. Obviously I would use the time prior to our opening to train...

It could just be that a lot of these people are in the same boat as me. I’m in the process of opening my own pizza place and just want to make sure that I am fully aware of the proper things to do, and the inevitable challenges that I’m going to face as well. If nothing else, it’s nice to see...

Any suggestions on other forums to check out that are as helpful as this one?

So, it’s looking more and more like we’ll set up our pizza place next to an already established salad joint. Normally this wouldn’t be much of a concern; however, we recently have branched out into offering salads to complement our pizza. Although our store and the salad place will specialize in...

My apologies, I should’ve clarified something. While I currently live in DC, that is not where I will be opening. I plan to move back to PA, quit my government job, and start up the shop with a hometown friend. The suggestions have been great so far, but I don’t think we will need to make use of...

I’m just starting to look into owning my own pizza store and really appreciate all of the postings and insight. However, I am running into a problem that I havent’ seen addressed yet. The place I’m looking into for the store is located in a historic town, so there is very limited parking (just a...