Will
you be able to say you were there?
I’ll never forget
the first copy of
Pizza Marketing Quarterly and
how exciting it was
to see it in
print. That was October of 1997.
Feedback was coming
in, and it felt
so satisfying to know that our
brand-new
mom-and-pop pizza magazine
was having a real impact
on the pizza
industry. Readers were
trying ideas they saw in our
magazine and our
advertisers were
reaching new customers.
Now those same
tingles of
satisfaction are returning as we put
together the final
touches, book the
last speakers, sell the last
exhibit spaces and
begin to launch
our first New York Pizza Show in
the greatest
location on earth. With
over half of all pizza stores within
just 700 miles of New York City
and the experience, talent and
history in the New York area,
who can argue with Mayor
Bloomberg
when he says, “New York is the
pizza capital of the world?”
Perhaps it stems
from the many
restaurant and pizza shows I
attended as a pizza
store owner, but
it has been especially gratifying
and thrilling
building the New York
Pizza Show from the ground
up. It’s going to be
just the kind
of pizza show I would have wanted
to visit when I was
an
owner/operator.
You’ll recognize
many parts of the
New York Pizza Show as features
you’re familiar with
in the pages of
PMQ. Most of the PMQ
experts and
contributors you’ve been
reading for the last several
years will be there
meeting
attendees over coffee inside the “Ask
the Expert Tent” on
the show floor
immediately after their seminars.
The “Think Tank
Tent,” sponsored by
Grande Cheese, will allow
attendees to meet
with their peers
at various roundtables, which
will be dedicated to
particular
subjects of interest.
The
Tradition Begins
Because of the very
favorable
response to the New York
Pizza Show, we have
leased the Javits
Center
for November 1-2,
2005, and for a
three-day show
November 1-3, 2006.
Remember November.
PMQ
Wins Two Gamma Awards
PMQ recently won two
Gamma Awards
for “Best Single Issue
for a
Business-to-Business Trade
Magazine” and for the “Best
Magazine Website.”
See page 47.
America’s Plate
Pizza Competition
The world’s greatest
gourmet pizza
will be determined at the
New
York
Pizza Show on November 3rd when Australia,
New
Zealand,
Italy and America’s
best
pizza makers face off. The culinary
members of the U.S.
Pizza Team have
a competition on
November 2nd to
decide who will
represent our country in the
international
competition the
following day. The next chance to
earn a spot on the
U.S. Pizza Team
will be to compete in the Best
Pizza contest held
at the Sofo Food
Show on September 19-20,
2004. Do you have a
pizza contest
that could qualify as an entry
point for the U.S.
Pizza Team? Call
Caroline Felker at 662-234-5481 x125.
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