The Cheese Board Collective only serves one type of pizza per day, and customers still line up to try it. Cheese Board Collective, Berkeley, California Ever heard of a pizza shop with 55 owners? It’s a business model that has worked for the Cheese Board Collective since 1971. PMQ’s … More
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From Shanghai to San Francisco, the PMQ crew hits the road in search of moneymaking ideas and products.
(Left to right) Rick Mines, Dave Sommers, Michael LaMarca and Jane Mines show off their awards from the 10th annual Chinese Pizza Championship in Shanghai. Shanghai—FHC China Accompanied by PMQ staffers, four members of the Groupon U.S. Pizza Team explored Shanghai and competed in the 10th annual Chinese Pizza … More
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From Chattanooga, Tennessee to Canastota, New York, the PMQ crew visits with top pizza trendsetters and moneymakers.
At 94 years old, famed boxing manager Tony Graziano still shows up to work every day at his pizza shop in Canastota, New York. ​Canastota, New York—Graziano’s Each year, hordes of fans descend upon the tiny town of Canastota, New York, for the International Boxing Hall of Fame Induction … More
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On the Road with PMQ – November 2015
Atlanta—Sofo Food Show PMQ took a retinue of staffers to the Sofo Foods Expo and hosted the first Wired Up-Fired Up Online Ordering Conference, featuring five of the country’s top vendors of online ordering. The event also featured a U.S. Pizza Team Trials competition, with Drew French of Athens, … More
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From Memphis to Shanghai, the PMQ crew is always on a mission to uncover new moneymaking ideas and document milestone events.
Memphis—June 18 We’d heard so much about Hog and Hominy (hogandhominy.com), named one of GQ Magazine’s “12 Most Outstanding Restaurants of 2013” and featured in The New York Times that same year, that we had to check it out ourselves. Kara Hoffman, PMQ’s creative director, loved the Thunderbird! Forty … More
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From Boston to Shanghai, the PMQ crew is always on a mission to uncover new moneymaking ideas and document milestone events.
Where We've Been PMQ’s Pizzamobile is always on a mission to uncover new moneymaking ideas and document milestone events in the pizza industry. If we haven’t been to your town yet, it’s only a matter of time. Learn more about where the PMQ staff has been and look out for where … More
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On the road with PMQ: Join us as we journey from Vegas to Sweden, with a stop in Ohio in between.
Starting in May 2015, PMQ Pizza Magazine now briefly chronicles our adventures across America in a department called “On the Road.” In this expanded version, we offer more details about staff members’ visits to pizzerias like 800 Degrees, Five50 Pizza Bar, Bluebird Pizzeria and Pizza My Heart: Tracy … More
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Cheese costs heading down
The Cheddar block price at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange as of Wednesday, January 28, 2015, stood at $1.4850 per pound, up one-half cent from last Friday’s block price, but down 83.5 cents from a year ago. The CME Cheddar block price has now been below $1.50 per pound for two … More
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Pizza by Slice the Musical is hunk-a-hunk of burnin’ love
Slice the Musical tells us what all pizza fans instinctively understand: pizza leads to true love. But director Brandon Baer’s take on pizza romance musically describes a fun way to find a soul mate and eat good pizza along the way. Baer is an LA-based writer-director who has been the … More
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Sign up today for the US Pizza Winter Team Acrobatic Trials
The US Pizza Team will be holding its annual Winter Acrobatic Trials at the NAPICS show in Columbus, Ohio February 15-16, 2015. The Acrobatic Trials draw pizza athletes from across the country to compete for their spot on the team and a grand prize of a trip to Parma, Italy to … More
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10 Ways to celebrate Cheese Lover’s Day with your pizza customers
For cheese lovers, National Cheese Lovers Day brings up evocative images of fine cheeses and maybe a glass of wine. But for passionate pizza people, it’s also the day when we celebrate the perfect marriage of gooey mozzarella and chewy crust. Why not combine our food obsessions with some especially cheesy … More
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Homeless dine on Lombardi’s thanks to goodwill of Damien Echols and gallery owner
Just in time for the holidays, Damien Echols of the West Memphis Three and gallery director Kevin Wilson of Sacred Tattoo and Gallery NYC teamed up to feed some Lombardi’s Pizza to the homeless in New York City. In a highly publicized 1994 trial fraught with controversy, Echols and two other teens, known … More