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    Door Hanging

    Amen to that last comment. If your your beat up from the job. At least be the driver, and the map guide. Drive your employees around and run them water, and door-hanger, and help them mark off the map. If your on them they will probably move allot quicker. However, don’t door-hang for more than...
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    Vitamin Water

    I guess it depends on how much of this stuff you can move? Grocery stores dedicate allot of space to this market currently, bottled water, flavored water, and energy drinks are out-pacing Pepsi, and Coke in market growth, and continue to take more and more market-share away from the majors. I...
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    Homemade House Dressing

    I used to make my own dressing, when I had time, but it became a hassle, and unless I made it never seemed to come out right. So unfortunately I switched to Litehouse Brands 2 oz. Packets. Its cheap, and portion control is important in a high volume restaurant.
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    New idea tonight

    Sounds like a great Idea, but you might make it $10.99 or $11.99. Don’t undersell yourself. I sell an 14" Pepperoni for $13.50, half of that is $6.75 plus an order of cheese bread $5.99…that would be $12.76… I don’t know what your market is like, but you need to pay yourself someday.
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    Who here makes a significantly different pizza?

    I have Pizza Sauce Alfredo Sauce Basil Pesto Sun-dried Tomato Pesto Olive Oil Teriyaki Glaze Thai Peanut Sauce Basil/Cream Cheese Ranch Dressing 1000 Island Dressing I have only about 30 toppings but the computations for pizzas is incredible. But what I find about 75% of my pizzas are the...
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    Complaint: not enough sauce

    I think you need to work on flavor. Add ingredients like roasted garlic, oregano, parsley, basil, pepper, brown sugar, and a white wine. If you add more sauce on a pie, you have to add more cheese to cover it up. With the price of cheese lately, I have been doing some tweaking of my own. I...
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    Do I thorw in the towel, or stick it out?

    concretekid: Alright KID, quit thinking about it and get it done. First focus on the closest 2000 addresses to your store, and just pound them with your menus, and DH’gers. The closer the address, the faster you delivery times, and the less likely they are going to pass you to go to your...
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    rye pizza dough

    I think if you look in the dough recipe vault in the website you will find a rye sourdough recipe. I am thinking of using it myself for my Reuben Pizza.
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    Postage Costs

    I mail 2000 menus per store per month. I send it out as a saturation letter, through the DDU, and it cost 12.7 cents per unit. In the cities I have to buy and address list. Which I purchase from www.melisadata.org for $9.99 per 1000, and print Walk-Sequenced, but in the rural routes all I do is...
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    Why does my pizza turn orange???????????

    Yeah back of the temp. When I started with Dominos eons ago the temp was about 420, and about a 7:30 to 8:00 bake time which make a very soft, and chewy pizza, and cooks it thouroughly. But as time progressed and the pressures to put out pizza at a faster rate, and increase the capacity of our...
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    Quick Population question

    The reason they stay open is as such. The retail food industry last year was a $421 Billion Dollar Industry, or about $1400 for every breathing soul in the U.S… Pizza related products account for 17% of that, or about $240 for every man, woman, and child. Thats $20/mo. So in a town of 49,500...
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    credit card minimums

    I was sick of paying 2% of my gross to the bank for merchant services, so I got an ATM Terminal. Looks like a Credit Card machine, acts like a credit card machine. But works like a ATM, I pre-set the limits so the customer can’t take more than $100 out at a time. I keep a $300 til, and $2000 in...
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    The Best way to spend 200k

    Johnny, It is true that I have several existing locations within shared spaces, but that was to get up and running. I also recognized that Domino’s Pizza, & Pizza Hut, and several other National restaurant chains, and smaller competitors, have merged with gas stations, a gas station is...
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    Delivering in SNOW!

    Crusher, Slow as she goes, Tell your drivers, to slow down, and think about every approach to each delivery site. They might find its better to park in the street, and walk the 100 yards up the driveway to the house, rather than driving up a narrow driveway of 5" virgin powder. It has been...
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    The doorhanging quandry

    I employ a technique we developed back in the day at old Dominos Pizza, called drive for five, it was a compromise because we found that our managers, and team members were over-taxed as it was, and with the high turnover that we had back then we didn’t wan’t to give them anymore reason to...
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    melting butter for wings

    WHIRL is a butter flavored, soy-based oil, its yellow in color, and is used throughout the restaurant industry, as a butter substitute, when and where the presentation of butter in its hardened form is not necessary. I have a garlic butter seasoning that I create from WHIRL to coat my...
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    How important is it to have your name on the pizza box?

    I think it is just as important, as a uniform, a car-topper, or signage. Your name on the box is an extension of your company. When the customer receives it, he generally rips of the box-topper, and saves it, and the box goes in the trash, or on the ground, or any number of places before it hits...
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    The Best way to spend 200k

    Dear Guest, The questions you pose, are quite timely for me. As I am sitting down with a two seperate gentlemen this Sunday who are in a similar position as you, I am going to layout a plan to work with one or both to open 9-stores each over them next two years. Initial investments will be...
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    Superbowl Hours & Specials

    I have several stores in small towns rangeing from 1000 people to about 6000 people. One thing I have noticed is the lack of Sunday Football orders. (Its definetly not like my days running a Dominos Pizza Campus Store) I think most of middle America will go to church and then head home, or to...
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    Reuben Pizza?

    Thanks for the hint! His website is awesome! Something to look up too!!
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