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So a good friend of mine who owns a very successful pizzeria is acquiring another long time local Pizzeria. The place he’s buying is nowhere near as busy as his. He does not intend to occupy the space. He’s basically thinking that he will get a percentage of the customer base (less than 2 miles...

Anyone have one? Kind of like a deep fried calzone but no ricotta and some sauce. Anyone hear of these or have a recipe they care to share? Used to get these all the time at my favorite gyro joint, King’s Gyros #2

We use a 2 door rotoflex, make line load pizza in. we keep pre sheeted dough on the line on cardboard, cracker crust. my question is, there must be a way to mathematically determine what should go where based on sales . …? any ideas? thanks

So things have been going great, but something my 10 year old son told me tonight broke my heart. He came to the restaurant for dinner with family and he likes to check on tables. Nice, gregarious, well spoken 10 year old who is highly intelligent. Well he told me the dad from one table asked...

So just thought I’d share here. I closed my other shop 6 months ago knowing i was going to move it. It took longer and cost more than i thought it would, but we finished build out and opened on Monday. I did no advertising on purpose, it’s busy season and i wanted us to grow into it slowly. We...

Heading to biketoberfest wanted to see if anyone is around there so i could eat some good pie!

here’s a pizza that was so good I couldn’t take it off the menu even though it doesn’t sell. we make the sauce in house. deep dish tika masala with tika masala sauce, chicken, cheese, and when it comes out of the oven we top it with a tomato mint salad. the deep dish acting like the naan bread...

What is your target of cogs on your coupons/box toppers? I’m pricing everything with the highest option and thinking 28-29% due to it being higher than our typical check average, bringing more cash to the bottom line. but the coupon is: garlic knots(big order of 5) either lg house or caesar...

How much would you expect to pay this person per hour? What kind of bonus structure would you set up for them? Ideally I want someone who can close, do checklists, and inventory.

A little of my background first, I own and operate an upscale Chicago style pizzeria in Florida. We have closed our initial location in order to move it to a better location. We are going from a 60 seat beer and wine only table service to 155 seats with full bar. After breaking my back for a...

So for my new restaurant i am thinking of stealing an idea from maggianos. Dinner served family style but priced per person and all you can eat. Includes garlic knots, choice of 2 salads and 3 different specialty pizzas or 3 topping build your own and our cannoli dip for dessert. I’m thinking...

So I am in the process of moving my store from a smaller place out of the way to a more population dense upper income area. I love the rotoflex, it’s unique, we get lots of comments on it, and never gave us any problems. The thing is it requires an experienced and expensive oven tender and even...

About a month ago I told the owner of our center that our pest control guy said there are rodents in the center in the ceiling. The owner is a trying to sell the center, they are a large mall company. They basically told me not their problem. I have an attorney and have been documenting...

Anyone have a dip in sales after their first year? We opened in November of 2014 and Jan 31 of 2015 we had an awesome review in the local paper that basically doubled our business overnight. We were having good comparable sales until the end of January 2016 then things dropped by 25%.

How is it done? Is it a long process? How often?

Anyone doing anything special? I’ve had beef brisket curing for 10 days. Going to cook tonight and make Reubens tomorrow with great seeded rye. Anyone make a corned beef pizza?

So a regular customer who invests in real estate came in last week with another guy. Turns out the regular customer has been scouting us, and the guy he was with and he are buying the center we are located in. He says he wants us to become the focal point of the center, he wants to move us to...

Anyone know of a good bright open sign? Maybe programmable but not married to the idea

So November 30th will be a year! Thanks to all for your insightful help. I’m looking to drive our lunch sales and I had a guy come in who owns a profitable pizzeria in Omaha, he said after doing a lunch buffet his lunch sales are up 40%. We are an upscale mostly dine in place and I don’t want to...

We’ve been asked to be 1 of 2 food vendors state hog rally at a dealership. We are going to do hot dogs and hamburgers, they are guessing 700 people. It’s an all day event, but dealer is right next to hooters. I’m guessing 50% of people buy food and of those 50% half but from us plus 15% margin...