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    How many serve beer? Opinions please.

    wiseguy, Complete your due diligence. Then purchase the license. I sell draft, bottles, & wine. In NC…home of to Billy Graham part of the year. You will not go out of business because you are selling beer. You may get hurt if you let your beer drinks scream & curse at the TV’s (even w/o selling...
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    Tracking my Direct Mail offer

    Nick, What I do is 1st make sure your staff understands the importance of properly coding the orders, if you don’t have a POS system yet that won’t matter as much I guess. OK, I take total dollars received, subtract total discounts given, subtract our overall monthly cog, & subtract cost of...
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    the birth of a pizza barn!!!

    wow… I love it! Way to think outside the box. I hate being in the strip malls. Your place has the ability to become a true destination place. Two questions… How secure is that barn? Can you move it? Thanks!
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    Stained concrete REDUX

    Nick, Where did you pick this stuff up at, local Home Depot or paint shop? Also, was this in your FOH or BOH? Thanks, Doug
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    Delivery Monster

    Nick, I think what the “guest” is simply trying to say is this… Why would you say to a customer “crap happens & this is why…blah, blah, blah…” The bottom line is WE ALL have pitfalls & make mistakes, some more critical than others. The “regular” customers all understand this, however the 1st...
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    Finally......

    Up, For us we it depends on lunch vs. dinner. Lunch EVERYONE chips in on the “side” duties additionally we all help out washing dishes. All my kitchen guys are able & will prep, cook, clean, dishes, boxes, ect For my servers & phone staff they work the front focusing on customers. However...
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    Rory Fatt's Restaurant Marketing System

    Here is another thought… What do most people think is the top, or at least a top two as a BEST marketing source? I’d say I consistently hear…WORD OF MOUTH. You will not get this unless you produce, not good but GREAT product and GREAT service. (not the best coupon gimic - however that will...
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    POS question...

    Looking for help in the POS area… We currently have a system in place. We have lost two out of 4 terminals and I am feed up with current POS people. So I am interested in hearing from folks who use the Point of Success software and where they purchased the hardware for this software…The other...
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    How do you do your wings?

    Piper, we use La Nova wings. Excellent wings, bakers pride ovens. Cook them about 10 min. and they are awsome. Plus, we advertise that they are “oven baked” sounds like it’s not as bad for ya hugh! Hope this helps.
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    Kegs

    most domestic will be pretty close…bud, bud light, miller lite, ect…$70-$80 however, some micros or imports run about $120 or more… Hometown micros run a little less if they are not trucked all over. We can get a Brooklyn Brew (Brown, Pilsner, Lager, ect) from NY (via our distributor) for $46...
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    Dough Patch Kit

    We store ours in dry storage, on the top shelf…but no ones seemed to replace it. true story… One of our new servers, an 18 yr old, yes she received her diploma. Had only two questions over two shifts… Why does this tea smell so much like coffee? We showed her the “bigger” bags were tea and...
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    Delivery Startup

    We just did it. did a litttle marketing to a 2-mile radius starting May 1st, 2007! Tuesday 5/1/07…one call a $6.50 order…sorry min is $15 Wednesday 5/2/07…several calls, resulting in info gathering and 1 order for $28 dollars! Excited about Thursday! -Doug
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    Marketing Plan....Please add to list

    Hey guys/gals, Wante dto see if we could get a list going with any future Marketing ideas you have set for the next 30, 60, 90 days… I’ll start. Goal = Current customer to visit again sooner. Box topping all med & large boxes. Coupons are replace w/ different color paper every Monday. Instead...
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    Who wants to share marketing pieces?

    Scott, Please count me in. Store in NC -Doug
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    Coke and Pepsi BIB 5 Gallon Price.

    Scott, we pay $103 for TWO 5gal BIB any flavor…or $51.50 delivered that is with an increase this year. -Doug
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    need to pick your brains....

    quick question… currently have a store w/ y602 double. business is picking up and looking to crank up delivery. currently we only need to use the top oven for pizza’s and we use the bottom oven for hoagies, wings, wraps, kids nuggets, & kids corn dogs. Anybody out there using decks for pizza’s...
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    black spots in dough

    yes, it happens to us as well from time to time. I think it’s from the yeast, not sure why…but it usually only happens in the large dough balls.
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    Your day in the life.....

    OK guys & ladies… What would you consider to be your normal routine? I mean a day in the life of shop owner / manager. I’ll start… Daily around 8am I start the day off with prep, dough every morning generally for 1-2 days later. Then cook off sausage and beef, shreed cheese, prep veggies…ect...
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    Catering - How do you do it?

    Scott, We do primarly pizza & salad trays. In addition we also do tea by the gallon and also offer lemonade. I usually figure 4 people per pie. We use our large pie which is 16". So if I do an order for 25 people that would be seven 16" pie’s (I always round up). This would yeild 56 slices plus...
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