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Hello all, Its been ages since I’ve posted anything - I hope all is well for everyone! I had a new pizza chain (Marcos Pizza) open up about 1 block from me during the 1st week of October. This brings the number of pizza delivery restaurants to 6 in a town of about 35k. 4 of them, including...

These online review sites all drive me nuts! I have one that either is a competitor, a disgruntled former employee, or a person with x-ray vision that can see through walls (review says “the employees here never wash their hands after using the restroom, trust me”). I have 1 single person...

Ugh! Congrats to you all! I was down a hair over 10% from last Feb. It really seems like money has been super tight in my area since Christmas. I finished 2012 down about 2.5% from the previous year. But ever since the last week of December, I am down an average of 11.8%. It seems like my weekly...

I would probably just raise your price on the slice special by a quarter. Not that I speak for every customer, but personally, I always roll my eyes when I see minimum card amounts. Mainly because I always seem to be short of hitting that minimum - then am forced to decide between purchasing...

I ended up being down 7.6% from last January. February isn’t starting off much better. I have to agree that the delay on tax returns this year has been a major blow through the 1st 5 weeks of the year. Only one way to go from here hopefully!

Hmmm. I’m no doctor, but a yeast infection came to mind. I’m not sure if you can get it on your hands, but it might be worth checking out or Googling. Good luck bud!

royster13: This!!! Your loyalty needs to be to the many employees you have that bust their tails for you on a daily basis. If these 2 employees are not showing any loyalty toward the business, you owe them nothing. Sometimes fresh blood can be a good thing. Sometimes a veteran baseball player...

UGH - I was just thinking about this post over the weekend - and here is my wonderful week so far! -My wife and I have a baby coming sometime late this week or weekend. So we have all the stresses of a 1st child coming at any second. -Sunday evening my water pump went out on my car. -Monday...

wa dave: Hi Dave! Do you have a way of differentiating between “specials” and “coupons”? I would absolutely love to start having every coupon be accounted for but I have a few problems. My daily specials are usually the same things I have on my coupon flyers so the driver would have nothing to...

Rockstar pizza: Hey Rockstar, let me know how that goes! I’m about 99% sure I’m going to do the same increase this summer ($1.50-$2.00), but I’m currently in the process of decreasing my coupon savings, so I’m a bit scared of this “double whammy” scaring a few people away

Not to bring this thread off topic, but has anyone ever encountered any backlash when asking for pre-payment for large orders? I did ask for pre-payment once on an order than sounded sort of suspicious to me and lost out on a potential 20 pizza order on a slow weeknight a couple years back. Not...

Registered Guest: I need to both agree and disagree with parts of this post Reg. Guest! Under no circumstances would I give her the pizzas for free. It almost rewards her lack of consideration. I think the buzz created by doing that would backfire and encourage others to try it out to get...

Hang in there bud! i seem to say that once a week as well. I cant tell you how much balder I am sincer I bought my place 3 years ago! A friend of a friend of mine manages some high-end restaurants in the Minneapolis area. When I told him I was in the process of buying my store a few years ago...

indie pizza: Thanks Indie, I literally LOL’ed 😃

I dont think an investor is right for you man. If you have the experience, the equipment, a ‘can’t miss’ idea, and only need 30k, I’m not sure what you would need an investor for. With little collateral, a traditional loan should be no problem. Plus, the interest rates would probably be much better!

Another possibility is that it seems to me that deep fryers are phasing out fast in the pizza business up here. For my money, nothing beats a fried wing. I’m not too sure if this applies to ther fries as well, just an idea!

I dont think you should go into this venture looking to pay yourselves a set amount. I dont think I have ever paid myself the same amount in a month twice in a row. The easiest, smartest, (scariest too) way to pay yourself to simply pay yourself with what is “left over”. If you and your partner...

I have finally made it big time! :). I got my 1st one of these today, and thanks to this thread, I knew it was b.s. about 8 seconds into the call. And about 20 minutes after I got off the phone with the scammer, my buddy who owns a shop 2 towns over called me with the exact same thing. I’m...

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I like indie’s suggestion the best here. Something smells fishy about this situation. Have you had a chance to verify he actually has the money? When times are really tough, I always joke with my buddies that one of them should apply at the chain store across the street and purposely be the...