Pizza King Podcast: Empowering Pizzeria Leadership

Why Paulie Gee Stepped Off the Make Line

Paulie Gee expected to spend his days making pizza. As his business developed, he realized other people could make the pies and his attention could help the shop in diffe

Stop Guessing Your Pizza Costs | Keisha Miller

Can you tell me what your best-selling pizza costs to make? Keisha Miller from Perfect Crust joins me to talk about cheese portions, team training, supplier relationship

September Sales Up 108.5%: What Changed at Our Pizzeria

September sales at Westshore Pizza Valrico reached $36,557, up 108.5% from last September. I share the rewards results, Facebook ads, direct mail plan, box toppers, QR s

Conveyor Oven vs. Deck Oven: What Actually Works in a Pizzeria?

Someone told me EDGE is the oven for people who cannot make real pizza. I spent nearly 23 years working with deck ovens. Today, my pizzeria runs every pizza through an E

You Can't Live in Your Shop Forever | Kevin Abbott

Kevin Abbott and his wife Allison own Stoner’s Pizza Joint directly across the street from my shop in Valrico, Florida. On paper, we compete. In real life, we help each o

Takeout Tips: We Set A Record, Then Lost A Whole Day

Last week Tyrell came on and said the shop had its best month, up around 75 percent in sales. Three days later the phones died for the rest of the day. This Takeout Tips

How a Small-Town Pizzeria Beats the Big Chains | Aaron Keaser

Aaron Keaser runs Teaford's Pizza & Subs in Greenville, Ohio, a town of about 13,000 people packed with national chains and local competition. He refuses to compete

The Systems Behind a 76% Sales Increase | Takeout Tips

August should have been one of our slowest months. Instead, our Westshore Pizza location finished at $42,143 in sales, up 76.22% from last year and ahead of every month w

Florida Pizza Is Better Than You Think

Jeff Berman has visited more than 500 pizzerias across the country. During one New York trip, he reached 53 shops and tried 70 slices in four and a half days. Jeff is th

The 14-Week Pizzeria Operators Playbook

Most struggling pizzerias do not need more ideas. They need a clear order of operations.    In Episode 156 of the Pizza King Podcast, Tyrell Reed breaks down the 14-week

Small Team, High Standards with Chef Peter Garces

A great pizzeria needs more than a strong recipe. Chef Peter Garces built By The Chef Pizza around premium ingredients, skilled people, simple systems, and hands-on lead

The Pizzeria Advice Nobody Wants to Hear: Just Do It

Four years ago Tyrell picked up "Podcasting for Dummies" in a bookstore and never bought it — because you learn more from doing than from reading about it. In this Takeou

From Merrill Lynch to Best Pizza in Chicago | Sal Guagliardo, Pizza Protector

Sal Guagliardo ran from the family pizza business, became a Merrill Lynch investment banker, then couldn't stay away — and a month after buying a little Chicago shop

Japanese Dough Science, Hater Comments & $30 Pizzas

Two of the most respected names in the pizza world sit down with Pizza King for a no-filter conversation. Uncle Rico brings the Florida-style, 26-years-behind-the-counter

The Kid Takes Over the Pizza King Podcast | Takeout Tips

This week's Takeout Tips got a special guest host — my son Dallas Reed grabbed the mic and turned the tables on the Pizza King. What starts as a hard-hitting debate

How the Right Oven Solves Your Labor Problem | George Clark, Edge Ovens

New episode this week on the Pizza King Podcast. George Clark drives the Edge Ovens test truck across the country — Maine to Miami, Seattle to San Diego — baking real piz

The 4 Levers of Pizzeria Marketing

Most pizzeria "marketing" is really just a pile of one-off tactics — a flyer here, a boosted post there, a guy you hired to run social — with no strategy tying it togethe

The Direct Mail Playbook Every Pizzeria Owner Needs to Hear

I sat down with Kevin Slaughter, owner of Mailwise Solutions, a direct mail and print company that has been serving pizzeria operators across the country for almost ninet

33 Years in the Pizza Game: How Gary Wilson Built a Legendary Shop on Service and Community

Edge will bring their oven to you! Learn more at Edgeovens.com/Test-bake Gary Wilson has been running Wilson's Pizza and Grill in Kansas City, Kansas since 1993, an

How Odie O'Connor Runs Two Pizza Shops From Two States | Pizza King Podcast

I sat down with Odie O'Connor, co-founder of Boxcar Pizza in Portland and Odie's Pizza Co. in Oceanside, California. Odie shares how he went from making vegan p