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If you really want to boost your sales just bring in something not work related to do during the slow times

I recalled an old thread where the comment that x number of days after manufacture date should be the cutoff for mozz. I did a significant amount of searching and found this NicksPizzaActive Member You may also be running into a cheese age issue. Even the best of cheeses will oil out and curdle...

The FDA and CDC have both said to stop serving romaine due to e-coli. What is it with romaine? No caesar or Greek salads today.

Yesterday afternoon we had a driver deliver to a teenage daughter of one of our regular customers that orders at least once a week for 15 years. The daughter was home alone at the time. She opened the door to get the pizza and their 11 year old Yorkie ran out and bit my driver on the ankle...

Last Wednesday one of our drivers called and told me he needed to talk to me after his first run. He had a $13.00 order and the girl, about 12 years old, handed him a $50.00 and said keep the change. He told her it was a fifty and that would be a $37.00 tip and she said she knew and to have a...

I am very tired of punching in card #'s all night long for delivery orders and paying crazy fees. I was thinking about getting a square reader for each driver but I have some questions. Do you provide the cell phone or use the drivers phone? Can the driver edit the transaction (add tip) after he...

Our equipment is aging as fast as we are. Our True prep table is 19 years old and has already had 3 service calls this year and now has another problem. I think it’s time has come. We plan to retire in 4 to 5 years, so I am am looking at budget tables since it won’t matter to me if the thing...

When delivering to a poorly lit Juke joint bar on a very bright sunny afternoon, always pause for a moment to allow your eyes to adjust to the dim lighting. Today I delivered to such a bar, there were about four people sitting at the bar and I set the pizza bag down on the bar in the empty space...

Our lease is up for renewal and the landlord just sent us a proposal to basically extend the current lease with a modest increase in rent. Our last renewal we were able to keep the rent the same because we were down in sales a bit, I am not happy with, but expect to pay this increase. My...

I just got a notification on Facebook that we have been nominated for a Fans Choice Award in the Pizza Shop category. It appears to me that this is just to try and drive traffic to their site. They also mention marketing tools available. It looks and feels like a marketing firm. My first...

Is this just a regional thing or is everyone feeling it? My normal source has iceberg available at over $60.00 per case, just under $70.00 for the cleaned and trimmed variety. For over a week we have been buying it at local grocery stores for a little more reasonable pricing. Today, 3 grocery...

After almost 20 years my Pelouze PS10FXP has suffered a fatal blow. I searched around a little and did not see that scale but found comparable ones in the $500.00 to $600.00 range. We also have a Yamato scale which is much less expensive but it is slow to respond and also takes a couple of...

We are having some cosmetic work done in our little pizza shop. New floors, wall treatment, painting, counters etc. Construction company is showing up Sunday night after closing and expect to have all major work done by the time we open Tuesday morning. (We are closed on Monday) They are working...

Marcos is opening about 1/2 mile down the road from me. I have heard they are opening on Friday and Monday, don’t know which is true, but they are ready to run. Yesterday they were handing out pizza all around the area and asking people to apply for a job. What I expected them to do and the same...

We have been very lucky, in the last 15 years we have only been stuck with counterfeit cash 3 times, twice they were $10.00 bills that were actually pretty decent ones and then last Friday we got a fake $20.00. My question is, how do you deal with it when one of your drivers has a fake bill? Who...

You are going to toss out a few hundred dollars of toppings and such. We came in to a 75F prep table today. Plenty of freon, evap fan running but no compressor. Started poking around the electrical and found this. Had that happen once before on a True table. Repairman is here now to rewire.

Our dough hook needed to be replaced due to wear from the drive pin so I purchased a reverse spiral dough hook because we occasionally have a problem with the dough ball climbing the hook. Since we made the change our dough feels different when you work it. When rolling dough balls it feels...

Without our knowledge!!! I would not mind this except that they are charging my customers a higher delivery fee and a service charge that together equals 3X our delivery fee!!! A woman called today to verify her online order went through because she did not get a confirmation. I told her we were...

I see no practical use for this, but I think we could sell them. http://www.stupidiotic.com/product_info.php?cPath=9_23&products_id=252

Are any Think Tank members going to the SOFO food expo in Atlanta on Oct 4th?