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Our policy was that once the schedule is posted it is the emplyees problem to get the shift covered if they want off. We generally had the current week plus two up on the board. Before it was posted we would try to accommodate any requests. Basically that meant they needed to make requests...

You allow employees to do that?

Thanks for all the kind words. Amazing to sit at home in the evening and not wonder if the phone is going to ring.

Well folks… the day has come. This morning I sat down at the title company and sold my pizza business and the property it occupies. It was not long after the 19th anniversary of our first day in business. As the Grateful Dead said; “What a long strange trip it has been”. No doubt, I will spend...

Another Colorado pizza business ran this “Hot-N-Ready” ad. Thought some of you might get a kick out of it.

Will you be delivering?

Ha! the answer to her question is right in your post: (With enthusiasm) “Yes, we have a killer lunch special, it is two slices and a drink for $5”.

Totally makes sense. I would not offer coupons in a slice place either unless I was tying to build up lunch or some night of the week that was slower… but never as a basic part of the everyday business. I might offer a punch card for regular customers though.

Sometimes you just have to bow to the prevailing business model. In pizza, if you are on the DELCO side of things in a market where the franchises operate, that model includes coupons. You can choose to swim upstream and in some markets may be able to do so but walking away from such a large...

I agree with the idea that IF the LL has a national tenant at 30% over what you agreed to then making you whole is a no-brainer for him. He would get every nickle back within 2 years.

I am curious how those did for you? I think in my market that $1 would not move the needle. The lowest value coupon we have out there is $3 off a $16 pizza. We have a couple of others with higher perceived value but lower cost (pint of ice cream that sells for $4 but costs us less than $2 and 2...

I don’t worry about cleaning mine because they come out of a 500 degree oven! Does anyone clean screens? (other than knocking off burned cheese etc if it gets on there?) We use parchment for wings but pretty much anything else just rides the screen through the oven.

Even then, if you do not have a defined rent in the option you will be looking at trying to reach agreement on what “market rent” might be which will be problematic if the LL wants you out.

Interesting thought process. My inclination would be to look for a location where there are a lot of restaurants nearby that seem to be doing well. The logic is that I want a big pie to carve a slice out of and I am willing to compete to get it.

I don’t understand why you want to do this? Why do you care what they look like? In fact, I don’t understand your process at all. If you do not use screens in the oven why do you even have screens?

Some time ago I went back and broke up the goals into smaller brackets. Now each $1000 is another bracket. i.e. 6000-7000, 7000-8000, 8000-9000 etc each have a different revenue per labor hour goal. Those goals are based on numbers we have actually hit in the past but not regularly achieved. I...

That does not stop the people that like your page from seeing it. It will still appear organically in their news feed and be visible on your page if they go there. Excluding them just means that you will not be paying for it to appear to them.

Every market is a little different. I have done tens of thousands in FB ads over the last decade. One thing that I have found that FB is NOT good at is directly generating orders. i.e. special offers on FB are a waste of time. You might spend $20-$30 promoting a post and get two orders. It is...

There are too many ways this can blow up to consider going forward. Just a couple that come to mind: End of lease: Virtually no chance the LL will renew. Time to sell and LL must agree to Lease Assignment. Refuses and blows your sale. You not only have problems now but you are assured problems...

Get out while you can.