Posts written by Dan Pecha

Dan is a hugely important slice of Alive & Kickin’ (see what we did there?). He started in the pizza business when he was just 14 and eventually opened his own chain of restaurants, supplying his own dough balls for each of them. He expanded to supplying dough products to other operations, then founded the Dough Shop®. Alive & Kickin’ was thrilled to acquire the Dough Shop® in 2015.

Pizza Box Marketing: 8 Outside the Box Ideas
April 26 2017
By
Dan Pecha
The pizza box is an industry mainstay for transporting pizza, whether it’s take-n-bake, delivery, or leftovers. It’s so ubiquitous, in fact, that many pizzeria owners and operators overlook its ...
April 19 2017
People eat about 100 acres of pizza each day in the United States. To put that in perspective, that’s about 75 football fields covered in gooey ...
March 8 2017
The price of putting a meal on the table keeps going up, and that includes the tables at your restaurant, too. In fact, food prices are expected to ...
March 1 2017
Pizza and delivery have been synonymous for decades, and the number of people having it delivered to their doorstep continues to rise. But those ...
February 15 2017
Have you ever ordered at a restaurant only to be repeatedly told that the menu options you selected weren’t available? Chances are, that was the last ...
February 8 2017
When your pizzeria is operating smoothly, the synergy between the back of the house and the front of the house translates to happy staff, satisfied ...
February 1 2017
Your food may be your focus, but the success of your pizzeria is largely dependent on attention to detail. Efficiency and consistency in the back of ...
January 18 2017
The National Restaurant Association (NRA) is the gatekeeper for food trends, and their just-released What’s Hot 2017 Culinary Forecast reveals the ...
November 22 2016
Restaurant success doesn’t happen in a vacuum. It undoubtedly takes commitment by owners/operators, management and the pizza team, but have you ...
July 20 2016
When business is booming and there’s no sign of a slowdown, the first question that comes to an owner/operator’s mind is often, “Is it time to open a ...