If you're pitting multiple distributors against each other, you're doing it wrong. PMQ, Inc. The pizza industry's #1 business media source. View this email in your browser Marketing & Operations If you're working with half a dozen distributors and pitting them against each other, you're doing it all wrong. Here's how to get better deals. Surviving the winter: We offer 7 marketing ideas to keep your pizzeria's sales sizzling in the cold-weather months. Upgrading your phone system can save money, boost productivity and optimize the customer experience. RECIPES This Rosemary Sicilian Grandma Pie won the 2018 U.S. Pizza Cup Trials. Chorizo is the star of this sausage pizza from Fontanini. This Week in Pizza brought to you by Polly-O The Mozz Means a Lot When you’ve got standards for your ingredients, you expect your cheese to work hard. Polly-O low moisture mozzarella has excellent stretch and color and a beautiful uniform melt. Learn more about our handcrafted Italian cheeses. Pizza News PMQ's new Media Kit is so interesting and descriptive of our changing pizza industry, we decided to release it to our advertisers AND our readers. Enjoy! This big-hearted pizzeria manager drove 225 miles to deliver pies to a dying man – and his shop doesn't even offer delivery. Sex or pizza? A man who has eaten only cheese pies for dinner for the past 37 years has to think about it. UPCOMING TRADE SHOWS/FESTIVALS Oct. 13-28, 2018: Museum of Pizza (pop-up museum) Oct. 22-23, 2018: Pizza&Core Exhibit Nov. 4, 2018: U.S. Pizza Cup Northeast Trials Nov. 11-13, 2018: PLMA Private Label Trade Show, Chicago Nov. 12-14, 2018: Restaurant Finance & Development Conference, Las Vegas Nov. 13-19, 2018: FHC China, Shanghai Jan. 13-14, 2019: Mid-America Restaurant Expo, Columbus (Media Sponsor: PMQ) Feb. 7-9, 2019: The NAFEM Show, Orlando Check back each week for updates! Get the latest news, strategies, recipes, business and marketing tips from PMQ Pizza Magazine! Subscribe now for FREE! VIP Links Allied Pans AM Manufacturing Bag Solutions Bellissimo Foods Curdtown Custom Cheese Shakers Edge Ovens Escalon Tomatoes Fish Oven & Equipment Corp. Fontanini Harbortouch iMenuToGo Incredible Bag Kamut LaNova Pizzeria & Wings Lloyd Pans Magnets for Marketing Message on Hold Microworks Middleby-Marshall OrderSnapp T Marzetti Peel-A-Deal Polly-O PDQ POS Perfect Crust Speedline Throw Dough Thunderbird Univex XLT Ovens Click Here to Advertise in PMQ. Newsletter Archives Magazine Archives Find us on Social Media! Copyright © 2018 PMQ Inc., All rights reserved. unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences Pizza News, This Week in Pizza