GoDaddy GoDaddy helps small businesses elevate their online presence on the platforms that matter most to consumers. Keeping up with your social media, reviews and online customer service is a full-time job. The GoDaddy Social Team does it all, so pizzeria owners can focus on their business. godaddy.com Revention Revention’s … More
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How to Increase Your Pizzeria’s Online Orders
Mobile apps, third-party delivery, millennials, oh my! While many factors have contributed to the rise of online ordering, the stats don’t lie: More than one-third (34%) of consumers spend at least $50 when ordering food online, and digital ordering and delivery has grown 300% faster than dine-in traffic since 2014, … More
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Best of Show: MarExpo 2019 Product Review
PMQ checks out hot new products and leading vendors at MARExpo.
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Mixers to the Max: Getting the Most out of Your Dough Mixer
A mixer is a major investment for any pizzeria—a heavy lifter that can thrive for decades and make or break your dough (and, potentially, other menu items). As such, choosing the right type, as well as maintaining it for maximum longevity, are key considerations for pizzeria operators. From planetary … More
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Danger, Will Robinson? As Robotics Improves, How Will It Affect the Pizza Biz?
Automation, robots and artificial intelligence are making inroads into the pizza industry—and changing it in unexpected ways. Never mind Domino’s and Pizza Hut—retail chain Costco, which has pizza serving food courts at most of its 482 domestic locations, has been cited by Business Insider as one of the nation’s … More
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Product Spotlight-March 2019
Portion PeeL The Portion PeeL has it all: accuracy, consistency and a return on investment. It gives wood peel users a more accurate and consistent way to stretch dough. Its laser-etched measuring circles are custom-made to each customer’s pizza sizes, preventing overstretching dough, ensuring more accurate and consistent crusts, … More
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Maintain a Good Relationship With Your Oven to Avoid Later Heartache
Pizza makers don’t just depend on their ovens to make money—it’s practically a love affair, a relationship based on tender care, patience and understanding. Pizzaioli know their ovens like they know their wives or husbands. But ovens, like spouses, don’t live forever. And some ovens just don’t deserve you. … More
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Jason Samosky: The Benefits of Building Your Own Oven From Scratch
Jason Samosky, of Samosky’s Homestyle Pizzeria in Valley City, Ohio, has been a member of the U.S. Pizza Team (USPT) since his first competition and win in 2005 at Pizza Pizzazz in Columbus, Ohio. Jason recently built his own wood-fired oven to serve his operation. Here, Brian Hernandez, PMQ … More
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Product Spotlight: September 2018
Innovative Consumer Solutions Innovative Consumer Solutions has developed a patent-pending disposable pizza spatula and cutter, which can be integrated into a corrugated box and used as a serving and cutting tool. The spatula sits flat on any pizza box and has perforations around the device allowing the consumer to easily … More
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Product Spotlight: January-February 2018
San Benito Pear Tomato Strips New from Neil Jones Food Company, the San Benito Pear Tomato Strips are 100% fresh-packed from vine-ripened California pear tomatoes. Hand-picked, fresh basil enhances the strip’s already amazing flavor, and the soft texture (no added calcium chloride) provides a handcrafted look and feel that’s perfect … More
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Get off to a successful start in 2018 with a social media calendar
A pizzeria’s content calendar should be designed to make scheduling social media posts easy. It doesn’t matter how large or small your business is—planning is key, and it all starts with a calendar. Here are five important factors to think about when developing your 2018 social media calendar: … More
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The Robots Are Coming: Zume Pizza May Be the Sci-Fi Pizzeria of the Future
If robots ever conquer the world, Julia Collins will be ready. They might even be her robots, in which case there’s no reason to panic: It will be a friendly takeover. Collins and her partner, Alex Garden, have developed a “cobot culture” at their single-unit pizzeria, Zume Pizza, in … More