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Welcome to our adventures in pizza that we have experienced in creating each issue of PMQ Magazine and creating new pizza events. If you make a living in the pizza business, we know you will enjoy Pizza TV and find it well worth your time. Pizza TV is both a DVD and a website: PizzaTV.com. So, welcome to the first installment of Pizza TV.
You are probably still wondering what Pizza TV is.. so let us explain. Most of you are already familiar with PMQ’s magazines, trade shows and websites. What you may not be familiar with is what it takes to produce these resources for pizza operators.
To do this you have to get our there and explore the industry. The staff has traveled not only across the U.S., but around the world (several times in the past nine years) looking for ideas, experts and products that are shaping the pizza industry. The results can be found between the pages of PMQ and our international issues, with the information you will find on the website and at the trade shows we are producing. Pizza TV is a behind the scenes look at the footage we have filmed during these trips and shows.
So what will you see? You will see excerpts from the 20+ seminars and speakers that were at PMQ’s New York Pizza Show. Some of these include Tom Lehmann, Peter Reinhart, Ed Levine, Andre Jehan, POS experts, and many others. You will see just a few of the many television clips where the U.S. Pizza Team has appeared, as well as a look at the competitions, performances and winners of the U.S. Pizza Team tryouts. You will also have the chance to see the U.S. Pizza Team while they were in Italy. You will see footage of the French, Italian, Canadian, American, Australian and New Zealand pizza chefs as they competed in the America’s Plate competition. You will also see footage of our travels to Paris, Italy, Chicago and other events and tradeshows and interviews with exhibitors and speakers at these shows. Basically, if you have never been to a PMQ Pizza Show or any of the other events you have read about here in PMQ, you will get a virtual tour of many of the things we do and places we go to bring you the information you need to succeed.
Here is a little of the history that helped to shape this first installment of Pizza TV. About nine years ago, Steve and Linda Green took a leap of faith and launched Pizza Marketing Quarterly Magazine from the living room of their house. The magazine was a simple four-times-a-year publication with a goal to present different styles of marketing and management and share different views on how to be successful in the pizza business. The industry grew and we grew with it and went to eight issues a year, launched PMQ Australia, PMQ Canada, PMQ China online and launched PMQ’s New York Pizza Show. We rounded up the industry’s top experts and provided more seminars and workshops than any other existing pizza show… and offered access to these speakers for free. We brought new exhibitors and products to market and gave the East Coast the opportunity to look, touch and see what is new and out there for pizzeria owners. We brought together the publishers and editors from pizza magazines from around the globe along with the world’s leading pizza makers to collectively share their knowledge. So if you are still asking, what is Pizza TV, it is a peek behind the curtain of just a few of the places we have traveled, the experts we have gathered and the events we are producing for our industry. For those who may not be familiar with PMQ magazine, PMQ.com, we want to introduce you to PMQ’s Pizza Shows, the experts we have on our team and the things, people and ideas right here…on Pizza TV. So take a look at what you have been missing…