Click here to register for the Pizza Power Forum!
By Rick Hynum, PMQ Editor in Chief
At PMQ Pizza, we know how busy pizzeria owners, operators, chefs and managers are. A good day is a day when only little things go wrong; a bad day is when the walk-in freezer goes kaput, your pizza oven won’t hold temp or one deck goes out (cutting your capacity in half!), or your cheese or flour delivery gets held up and you like your sales rep too much to cuss them out.
We get it, pizza friends. But we also know you have even bigger, more systemic problems to solve: Competition from the big chains, rising food and labor costs, customers with less money to spend, employees who aren’t motivated to learn and put their hearts into their work.
We can’t fix your freezer for you. But from dough dilemmas to employee retention, marketing and adding store No. 2, we can help you solve the operational and pizza-making problems that keep you awake at night. That’s why we created the Pizza Power Forum, taking place September 2-4 in Atlanta. Granted, that’s time away from your restaurant. But, hey, all the real action starts on Wednesday, September 3. So give us two days, and we’ll give you 14 educational sessions designed by the PMQ editorial team to set you on a new path to greater success in your pizza business.
Just as importantly, you will discover a true Pizza Community that supports you and wants to help you succeed. Then you can go home and put our expert operators’ ideas and strategies into action right away.
Keep scrolling for an at-a-glance preview of what you’re going to learn during these two life-changing days at the Pizza Power Forum!
Dough-Making and Menu Development:
- The Mad Scientists of Pizza: Mastering the Intricacies of Pizza Perfection
- Get Your Toughest Dough Questions Answered!
- Super-Charge Your Menu With Game-Changing LTOs and Signature Pizzas
- Some Like It Cold: Shipping Your Frozen Pizzas to a National Brand
Operations and Management:
- Reclaim Your Life: Building a Pizzeria Operation That Runs With or Without You
- Culture and Leadership: Training, Coaching Up and Getting Buy-In from Employees
- Go Bigger, Go Faster! Engineering Your Pizzeria for Phenomenal Success and Growth
Growth and Expansion:
- Think and Grow Like a Chain Operator!
- Franchising 101: How to Grow Your Brand Using a Time-Tested Model
- Opening Store No. 2: How to Know When You’re Ready and How to Do It Right
Marketing Your Pizzeria:
- Preloading 2026: Pump Up Your Sales With a Full Year’s Worth of Moneymaking Promotions
- Get Your Pizza Marketing Questions Answered!
- TV Fame and the Pizza Game: Behind the Scenes of TV’s Hottest Cooking Shows
Competing Against the Major Chains:
- Keynote Session: Digging into the Intouch Insight DELCO Study: Takeaways for Your Indie Pizzeria
That sums it up nicely, I think. For all the details, just click here to view the full agenda, and you’ll find the full list of speakers here.
Finally, did I mention your Pizza Power Forum ticket also gives you full access to the QSR Evolution Conference and the NextGen Restaurant Summit, all co-located together in one gorgeous space at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis? Here’s a look at some (but not all) of the keynote speakers for those events:
Neha DK, VP Global Marketing & CMO Global Franchise Markets, Pizza Hut
Andrew Cathy, CEO of Chik-fil-A
Amy Durini, CMO, Taco Bell International
Debbie Stroud, CEO, Whataburger
OK, that’s it. Give us two days, pizza friends, and let’s make some magic together!
Click here to register for the Pizza Power Forum NOW (before the price goes UP on August 22), and we’ll see you in Atlanta!
