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Teaching employees to portion and apply pizza sauce correctly is essential to controlling food costs and ensuring consistency. Many kitchen workers start out using a scale but eventually start eyeballing it instead. Fortunately, there’s a highly effective method for scooping out the right amount of sauce every time without using a scale. Using a three-ounce spoodle, the angle at which you insert and remove the spoodle will produce the same amount of sauce each and every time.

Learn how to get the right angle with every scoop at PMQ.com.

6 Ways to Create a Kid-Friendly Beverage Menu

It’s always a good idea to cater to tykes with pint-sized food portions, but have you thought about giving them their own beverage menu, too? Fun, colorful drinks with catchy names can make your pizzeria a kid-friendly destination, and low-sugar alternatives will keep moms on your side.

Experts offer 6 ways to create a kid-friendly beverage menu at PMQ.com.

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How to Save the Multiverse (by Eating Stromboli) at Gotham City Pizza

Inspired by a Marvel Comics epic saga from the 1990s, customers at the superhero-themed Gotham City Pizza can take the Infinity Gauntlet Challenge: Eat a three-foot stromboli in 30 minutes or less, and you’ll get your picture taken with the Infinity Gauntlet glove and your face will be permanently sketched on the beach-town pizzeria’s wall, right next to Superman and Wonder Woman!

Kids can also take home free comic books at this newly opened pizza shop in Ormond Beach, Florida.