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10 miles is a wide area of focus. How about just focussing on the 2000 or so addresses with a mile of your joint first. Give them awesome service! A 20 minutes delivery time speaks very loud.

Whether to stay open late or not that is the question. If you are positioned against Dominos, and Pizza Hut or Papa John’s. You will find that they often discount there products in the late evenings. As well, there national marketing machine is helping develop the impulse buyers, who see...

Keep them in a plastic container. I go through about a case of Artichoke hearts a month. So I don’t wory about spoilage, however I suggest that you dont keep any vegetable longer than 10 days. I usually cycle them out every 7 days(dominos pizza shelf life). “Dominos Shelf Life Structure was...

Fatboy & Nick, Keep it up! The Retail Food Marketplace in USA racks up 422 Billion Dollar a year. Pizza is 17% of that, and I am sure that include even the frozen stuff at the grocery store. But that equates to just over $239 a year in pizza for every warm body in your respective towns. So if...

Re: Ready to build Johnny, I have allot of family in Yuba City, CA. Marysville, CA is only a stones throw away. There is plenty of wealth in the valley. In zip code 95901 there is 39000 people, with a median income of $34K. I several gourmet restaurants that do between $5k and $10K a week, and...

I guess it all depends on your overhead!!! Right Johnny? For instance, I have a 2000 sq. ft. fully equipped store that I rented for $100 a month, the Garbage, Utilities, Phone Service, and Insurance cost me all total about $800 a month. It currently does, $5000 a week, My Food Cost is 30%, I...

Re: Ready to build First of all. I would consider creating a high end pizza, my average pizza 16" pizza is $20. I have gourmet pizzas, I have mainstream ingredients too, but I also have Basil Pesto, and Sun-Dried Tomato Pesto, Alfredo Sauce, Artichoke Tapenade, and Three Olive Tapenade. Your in...

First an foremost. You “the owner” are the most creative aspect of your business, and the most sought after! If you want to build sales, you need to free up your schedule so you can go out and make the face to face contacts in your community. Get to know the neighborhood well. Hire a lunch time...

First of All! I would start by opening your doors. lol jk! What kind of signage do you have? Do you have a sign? A-boards? Banner to Wave? I would think of papering all the cars in those Retail BOX Stores Parking lots. However, you might get tresspassed. But I would build a nice poster declaring...

I am in Northern Idaho, and I am paying $2.51 a pound. I have Friends in Oregon, paying 2.30 a pound. What are you paying in AZ?

What are you paying for 20-ounce? and 2-Liters? For 20-oz. I pay $.93/unit for Coke Products, and $.83/unit for Pepsi Products. For 2-Liter. I pay $1.32/unit for Coke Products, and $1.08/unit for Pepsi Products.

HERES A COUPLE: THE MEDITERANEAN: ON A BASIL PESTO HERB BASE, ROMA TOMATOES, FETA CHEESE, KALAMATA OLIVES, FRESH GARLIC, MARINATED ARTICHOKE HEARTS, SMOTHERED IN GRANDE CHEESE. THAI CHICKEN: ON A PANDONG THAI PEANUT SAUCE BASE, CHICKEN MARINATED IN TERYAKI GLAZE, SPINACH LEAVES, ROASTED RED...

Re: Banning Customers… and they still come back for more l Also consider that the average person has a circle of influence of at least 250 people. And If you piss him off, he will probably tell all of them, and suddenly you have 251 poisened people who might echo his sentiments, to others...

Re: Banning Customers… and they still come back for more l The Retail Food Market is a $422 Billion Market. Pizza accounts for 17% of that or $278.40 per person per year. In my town of 6000 every person counts, I think I would only ban someone if they were sexually harrassing my employees, If I...

When I worked for Domino’s Pizza we would do a soft opening, generally we would hand out about 300 free pizza coupons, 100 for monday, 100 for tuesday, and 100 for wednesday, reedemable between 5pm and 7pm for practice rushes only. We would have a light crew during the days, and I would lead a...

Tyson, he’s not sampling, he is trying to steal your drivers. I worked for Dominos Pizza for 15 years and Papa Johns for one year before opening up my own chain. I opened up three Papa John’s stores in the year I worked for them, and I learned some new ideas, and I honed my learned skills from...

Can you have those interior signs that light up. You know the 12" square box in the side or rear window?

PizzaLady4-ever, It depends on what kind of do he is making. I have a sourdough crust, and I could make it fresh like you do and let it rise all day, and then use it while its still sweet, before it blows and becomes sour. But I prefer to make my dough, portion it, and retard it so that I can...

Crusher, I use GRANDE cheese it runs about $2.15 to $2.65 a pound usually about $1.00 about Chicago Mercantile Exchange Block Price. http://www.cme.com/wrappedpages/misc/cheeseindex.html I worked for Dominos Pizza for about 15 years, and then for Papa John’s for a year, before I went out on my...

I have a friend that has a chinese delivery service in a town nearby. His only form of advertising outside of his sign, and word of mouth, is his cartoppers. He has three delivery cars, and he has three fulltime drivers who are constantly delivering his product. His average ticket is $70.00. So...