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Andrew Simmons Story Update 1-17-2023

First, it’s been a good solid month using Toast at the restaurant. The good, the bad and the ugly. Spoiler alert: no ugly, and not really anything bad. We went live on a Friday night after coming off of Square for Restaurants. Menu updates on the fly were a breeze; re-configuring how the KDS, the printers and re-routing specific […]

Andrew Simmons on Integrated Technology

Mama Ramona’s is using Incentivio for pushing and tracking the redemptions; Toast to scan the redemption code at the POS; Picnic for cranking out perfectly proportioned pizzas with cheese, sauce and pepperoni, to keep our cost fixed; and Korok Group for the Hot Rocks conveyor oven that cooks these pies at a rapid rate while maintaining their stone baked crust quality. They […]

Pizza Subscription

Our first pizza subscription offering went live on January 1st, and we’ve starting fulfilling redemptions. Although we are only two days into it, our assumptions are playing out in that we would see add-ons to the overall order that boosts the order beyond the free pizza they are redeeming. And the restaurant has been packed […]

Davis vs Garcia in Your Pizzeria

Hit things off with your best Saturday of 2023! Show the biggest fight of the year at your shop! G&G Closed Circuit Events, LLC.

The Picnic Station is installed at Mama Ramona’s

As the Thanksgiving holiday looms, pizza chef Mariano learns how to operate and clean the Picnic Station. Now that the techs have left, they still have to work with it to achieve their goal of a baked pizza in under 5 minutes.

Turbo Chef Ovens

Super excited about these new ovens I’ve added to the restaurant! These are from TurboChef Technologies, Inc. and look a little like Bender’s head from Futurama (which also ironically fits my robotic theme to my restaurant). I’m able to produce a 12” 5-topping pizza on my PicnicPizza Station in under a minute, pop it into the TurboChef, and […]

Giant Stuffed Crust Pizza

Love stuffed crust pizza? We do too and decided to make our own giant stuffed crust pizza slice in celebration of our NEW Signature Stuffed crust launch! ******** PIZZA GUYS BRAND Founded in 1986 and franchising since 1994, Pizza Guys offers high-quality and delicious gourmet pizzas at a price point that can meet every budget. […]

3 Sausage Pizza Day Pizzas

Celebrate Sausage Pizza Day with three different mouth watering sausage pizzas from the brain of our very own Chef Brian Hernandez.

Local Restaurant Delivery Services Innovate

There are more ways to deliver than ever and some of the best have already been built by people like you. Take a look at how RDS’s are banding together to provide some of the service in the industry.

2022 Chicago U.S. Pizza Cup & Acrobatic Trials

The U.S. Pizza Team and the National Pizza & Pasta Show hosted the 2022 Chicago U.S. Pizza Cup & Acrobatic Trials August 24th through 25th at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Illinois, and the best pizzaioli and pizza acrobats from Chicago and beyond answered the call to competition.