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    Dough Baller. Is it worth the investment?

    Good question. I, too, am interested in the answer to your question.
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    Pizza liner or grease paper

    Jimbolini, What is the cost of this product?
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    What Do You Have For Dessert?

    We have a bakery in-house so some of our items would probably be less applicable. But at all locations we serve Dolce (dessert) pizzas, and do seasonals as well: Year-round: Apple Crisp Cherry Crisp Cinnamon Roll (as pizza) S’Mores Seasonals include: Holiday: apples and cranberries Summer...
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    Best use of marketing dollars?

    Try: https://scratchoff.com/ We give away 3, 6, and 12-month Pizza of the Month Club subscriptions, full meal free, free knots, free coffee/scones, free slices, etc. The grand prize this year is a $1000 gift card. Order is placed, and then their card is scratched by staff. The card is good...
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    Best use of marketing dollars?

    Our best ongoing marketing efforts, in order: Our loyalty program. We do not discount, value-added offers only. ($200 a month) Travel amenities signs on the Interstate. ($2000 annually) Google and Facebook ads, and retargeting ads. ($800 a month) Annual (for 13 years) bounce back scratch card...
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    Cheese and pepperoni prices

    MSG, I know it has been several days since you asked this question, and based on the prices you mentioned, we have very different pizza environments in our respective restaurants. However, if you have a level of quality that you prefer and can be proud of, a level of consistency that your guests...
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    Loyalty program set-up

    We award points to dollars one to one. Bonus points are occasionally awarded for other interactions. We offer a reward at 150 points. The reward is for one of the many menu items on our menu (pizza, wings, salad, etc.) of which the top reward value could be $28. The 150 rolls over and starts at...
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    Highway Exit Advertising

    Yes, we do. It seems like the annual cost is about $500 in each direction on the Interstate and about $225 for ramp/directional signage (plus sign cost, which wasn’t insignificant). In our State, rates are based on population density. We only wish we had pursued the signage earlier as it has...
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    Police/fireman discount

    We do not offer discounts.
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    Digital menu displays

    Stream, LLC has serviced our stores for 2.5 years. We do far more marketing in addition to our menu-based static displays. Highly recommend. https://explorestream.com/
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    Post your Pizza!

    Our new Crab Rangoon
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    Would you be willing to offer a free pizza?

    We regularly use 1 and 2.
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    Diced Pepperoni

    We’ve been using diced for many years as a premium option, for our mozzarella rolls, and for our best-selling Signature pepperoni pie with three different types of pepperoni, traditional (similar to Hormel), a smoked-cupping style and the diced. It works extremely well for us.
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    Pizzeria Needing Wisdom!

    It absolutely helps with consistency, and that too is important for us. But it’s equally helpful with food cost issues. One ounce of cheese over, on average, for every pie, at 100,000 pies a year will break your budget.
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    Pizzeria Needing Wisdom!

    Except for sauce, and some finishes (fresh basil, cilantro, etc.) we weigh every topping every time. The more staff works at it consistently, the faster it goes. We speed up by pre-prepping skins for crunch time, pre-prepping sauce and cheese skins on some basic recipes for heavy-hit time...
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    Best sides/extras without a deep fryer

    We never got what we were after using our leftover crust dough, which is the usual practice. Since we need to serve them up super-fast we opted to have a local bakery par-bake our proprietary recipe and deliver them to us once or twice weekly. We use a TurboChef to finish baking (:35) or our...
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    Best sides/extras without a deep fryer

    Knots, 2) Wings — both oven-based, both par-baked and finished in a few minutes in the oven. Knots in a third of the time of wings or a pie.
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    Best approach for wings

    We’ve been in your position and had developed a real following for our baked wings before our ovens were overloaded. We added an older model TurboChef. It has been a dream, and not only took the overload burden off our conveyor ovens, but dropped bake time from 9:00 to 2:30 per order. I like the...
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    TurboChef pizza baking

    We have been using Lincoln conveyor ovens (both gas and electric) since we opened our first location 13-years ago. Our needed volume has exceeded oven capacity. There is no room in our buildings for more ovens like we have been using. We recently began using an old model TurboChef, moving our...
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