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2024 Pizza Expo Preview

Pizza Expo 2024 — 40 Years of Community The pizza industry is different than most. There is a strong bond, a sense of community and a helping spirit. It wasn’t always that way. What changed the industry was the first International Pizza Expo ...

Think differently about how you use bell peppers on pizza

Bell Peppers on Pizza: Ring the Bell It’s time to ring the bell. Bell peppers, of course. Bell peppers ranked as the No. 8 most popular pizza topping in America, according to our pizzeria operator survey published in our 2025 Pizza Industry Trends ...

What makes a great pizza?

Walk through the Pizza Process Everyone’s ideal pizza will look, taste and feel differently. The key to building your perfect pie is understanding how to utilize different dough methods and how they will change your final product, picking the right...

The evolution of Traditional American Pizza

Traditional American Pizza Styles: States of Play Explaining what an American style pizza is to anyone is like showing them a what an American looks like. The breadth and depth of diversity of pizzas in this country is peppered with differing dough m...
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Gas Ovens vs. Electric Ovens: Heating Up

Gas ovens were once the standard at pizzerias and restaurants across the U.S., but electric ovens are gaining ground For decades, gas ovens dominated restaurant kitchens, including pizzerias. These days, however, electric ovens are cutting into that ...
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Product, Service Outage Protocol

Pizzeria owners can take steps to prevent damage when power, technology or the supply chain falters From large-scale weather disasters to local outages, there are many events that can cause a pizzeria to pause operations. Businesses are technology de...

The Power of Merch!!

The right merchandise can be a smart marketing play There is nothing better than shopping at a local store and seeing someone wearing a hat or a shirt from your restaurant. Right!?! Or someone pointing at your shirt or hat when you are out running er...

How Independent Pizzerias can buy like the Big Pizza Chains

Learn to Flex Your Buying Muscles It is one of the many challenges for independent pizzerias. You are competing for the customer’s pizza dollar with franchises of large corporations who can purchase the same ingredients for less money. Let’s face...

Conversation: Odie O’Connor, Boxcar Pizza, Portland, Oregon

A Q&A with Odie O’Connor, owner of Boxcar Pizza, Portland, Oregon Concept: The concept for Boxcar was created in the early summer of 2020. I had temporarily closed my first business, Baby Blue Pizza, due to the pandemic. So with the extra time ...

Unconventional Pizza Toppings: Beginner’s Guide

Serhan Ayhan shares his approach to unconventional pizza toppings There’s no denying that the classics like pepperoni, mushroom, and sausage are tried and true. But earlier this year, New York Times Cooking called Brooklyn’s Cuts & Slices oxt...
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Announcing the PIE Awards Winners

Congratulations to the 2023 Pizza Industry Excellence (PIE) Awards Winners By Pizza Today Staff In 2023, Emerald Expositions, the parent company of Pizza Today, launched the Pizza Industry Excellence (PIE) Awards. The PIE Awards were designed to hono...
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Imo’s Pizza Celebrates 60th Anniversary

Iconic St. Louis-style pizza company marks occasion by launching a commemorative pizza box and specials throughout the year PRESS RELEASE ST LOUIS (Jan. 8, 2024) – 60 years ago a thin-crust, Provel-covered legend was born in St. Louis and pizza has...
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