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Rather than hijack an earlier thread about Mercury/Point of Success…we’ll start this new one. We have been Mercury/Point of Success users for over 6 years. We had a discussion with Heartland last week and it looks like they can save us about $1000 per month on our credit card fees if we switch...

We are in the process of expanding our store and possibly adding a small dining room section. This is going to require us to build another bathroom for customer use. Actually, we had never thought of putting in a baby changing station in the restroom…but this recent news story about a local...

We recently had the opportunity to visit the Memphis area and took a quick detour over to the PMQ headquarters in Oxford, MS. We thought we would be there for just a quick visit and introduce ourselves, but ended up spending about an hour there. We met everyone who is responsible for putting...

Just received an e-mail from PH, who are rolling out their new pizza sliders. Sounds like a lot more work to me…but it’s definitely different. I think we’ll just stick to our regular size pizzas - I can’t imagine all those little tiny pizzas filling up our ovens and then trying to get them all...

We had a driver get in a car accident last night (not her fault), but she got shaken up pretty bad and her car was totalled. Of course, it happened during the dinner rush…but the staff did a good job at getting another driver in and getting things back on track. This morning, we received this...

http://www.pizzadelivery.org/news/a-real-pizza-robot-10458/

We received an email today from our insurance broker concerning things that need to start being looked at in terms of being in compliance with the Affordable Care Act. From what I understand, we don’t really have to do anything until we have at least 50 employees. Am I right? Has any of this...

I just took a stack of 8/12 x 11 fliers to the post office today to mail EDDM and the clerk asked me if they had contacted me about their new size regulations and that my fliers did not qualify. I just mailed on Monday and no one told me anything. The postal clerk showed me a memo that was...

We’ve been in business over 12 years and only had 3 or 4 break-ins and nothing was ever stolen. The last month has been terrible. We live in the Houston suburban area and apparently small businesses are the main targets lately. Our first location was broke in and nothing was stolen…cost us $500...

Hmmm…guess our new marketing campaign will be “Get the pizza YOU are paying for the way YOU want it” http://www.click2houston.com/news/Domin … index.html

This is wrong on so many levels

Need to find out how the rest of you handle checking your driver’s insurance on a regular basis. We are in the process of hiring a new driver and he furnished us with “proof of insurance” which was nothing more than an insurance application dated in January which said insurance would be for...

Those of you that are purchasing your gluten free crusts already parbaked – what company are you purchasing them from? We have a customer with an interest in them, but I’m unable to locate a vendor. I have been in contact with one – but they are not responding to my request. I know we saw one in...

We just got an e-mail from American Express that they are giving away $100 of free Facebook ads to promote Small Business Saturday on 11/27. It is for the first 5000 small businesses that sign up on their special Facebook page. I think it’s an AmEx created day, but they are really pushing it...

I was listening to Kim Komando last night and she mentioned that the next “hot” thing for small business owners is foursquare.com. Have any of you heard of it or are using it? It looks like it’s another level of social network marketing where people “check-in” virtually to your business and get...

Another new scam that we’ve recently experienced. The customer phones in their order and then sits out in front of the house. Gives us a bad check – and they don’t even live there. Usually when we get a bad check we block the address – but we started seeing a pattern with the same check writer...

This is probably not the best way to settle up with the IRS. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6437635.html

Just fired our manager today (for too many reasons to even mention). What is the resource you have all used for finding good quality managers. Need to find someone fast since we don’t want to be working those LONG hours again.