I might be buying a pizzeria...
 

Saturday I have a meeting with someone who is buying back his pizzeria, and he wants me to be a partner.

A local guy owns a few pizzeria and a few gas stations, and he sold the pizzeria down the street from me to his brother who promptly ran it into the ground. The original owner is buying it back and wants me involved....

Sounds exciting.

free pizza for gfy crowd :thumbsup

Nice!

You should come up with your own signature Pizza for the restaurant.

Congrats and good luck!

Crooked pizza :thumbsup

He could call it Ate Up or Homeslice, fitting names with Rochard involved.

If the pizza is good, it's a good investment.

I think pizza delivery is dead and dying. I used to ear Domino’s every week. Now I can get anything I want delivered and pizza is a once every few months thing now.

meh..partners in a pizza place sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.

Flour is dead, Rochard.

Food delivery services and more places offering delivery are likely cutting into pizza sales, but pizza is still one of the most popular foods in the country. I live in a smallish suburb and in the last year we have had two new pizza places open up and both seem to be doing pretty well.

I don't think we will be seeing the demise of pizza anytime soon.

Sounds like it could be a lot of fun. Make sure you find out if he will want you to work at the place and if so how much. It might not be worth it if he expects you to be a small partner and put in full-time hours.

Dont eat it all

That's why i'm thinking things like this end up in disasterville. Get an iron-clad operating agreement.

The current "state of the industry," as it were, is not sustainable.

Last night I checked out Postmates because I also want pizza tonight and I cannot find delivery from any pizza place except the majors. For $10 a month you get unlimited deliveries with no fee, or you pay a $3.99 per trip delivery fee.

That is not sustainable. These IT companies with venture funding are "disrupting" markets with prices that they will not be able to maintain as soon as the investment money goes away.

My sincere hope is that these fluffed companies do not destroy the local companies that I love. If the local companies can hang on a few more years, they may make it. These upcoming years, until the bubble pops, are going to be very rough though.

Yeah. As exciting as when SleazyDream had gotten into a night club business (which Hells Angels burned to the ground, or something like this).

Keep us posted.

Who can post this story. Seems interesting :winkwink:

I won't be shocked at all to see some changes in how the industry operates. That said, I don't think pizza as a food is going anywhere and I think people having pizza delivered will still be around for a long time. How that pizza gets delivered may well change dramatically over time. I live in a place where Postmates and services like that aren't available yet, but it won't shock me if someone opens a smaller scale version of something like that locally in the future. Years from now my pizza may be delivered by some freelance delivery driver and not the pizza company, but I think I will still be able to get it.

Like you say, the worry is how these changes will affect the smaller companies. Companies like Amazon are buying up everything so I won't be surprised either if some years from now that freelance delivery driver brings me pizza, but my only choices are a few large corporate chains.

Good luck!

Brad

Pizza shop... a cash business... perfect way to launder some bread... Just ask Nancy Pelosi :thumbsup

:smokin

I don't like to go into detail about what I do outside of adult... My wife and I own a few bricks and mortar business already.

Hey Rochard take it form someone who has owned 12 restaurants in California, think hard about this. It's amazingly hard work if you are running it. Long hours and staff that come to work drunk or on drugs or just not turn up or steal from you, the list goes on. If you are successful its a great feeling but its a huge undertaking to get to that stage.

From our initial talks it is mostly a investment and management thing. I work full time, own a few other things; I do not have time to be working behind the counter. It's also a marketing thing - I am VERY well known in my town (people walk up to me and as if I am "THAT Richard Buss") so being involved with a local pizza place would be a big plus.

Get some sort of indemnification to protect you from any leftovers of the brother's crap that might come up.

If you end up deciding to do it, I hope it is successful for you. I always thought it might be cool to own a fun pizza place.

mmm pizza

Well, that's settled.

Pizza is on RocHard!

Then why the fuck you make this thread?

Jesus fucking Christ...

i cunt a4d2 eat pixza... :(

I think it was 2007 that I went to Valparaiso, IN for goodgirl's birthday. I was paying for dinner for her entire family, so I was pretty happy when they wanted to go to the pizza place in downtown Valpo.

Mid-way thru dinner, we walked next door to pick up the cake I had ordered. As we walked back in the pizza place I notice a sign that says "cash only" - it was explained to me that it was a mob owned place.

It doesn't sound like Rochard is getting involved with delivery; I suspect Dash and Postmates might hit them up to deliver for them.

Good luck.

I think this is awesome and it will be more successful than you realize yet :thumbsup

That is 100%. Nobody here even thought that it won't be delivered. The hint was simply that pizza delivery places lost a portion of business due to other food places jumping the delivery train. Not that delivery as a thing in general is at some kind of risk.

^^ Polish troll living in Poland talking about Pizza delivery in America, where he's never been :disgust

Vote for your interest then (aka not for the interest of leechers, but for the interest of givers).

This was the first thing that came to my mind of why you were invited (unless you have some special connection with the inviter).

Shall he email you all the specs on the business in .pdf of will .docs be fine?

Please tell us more about yourself though. We want details. Not just your first or last name. Why post here and tell us your thoughts if we don't know everything about you? I mean, why even bother?

Jesus fucking Christ!

Nice subtle brag.. What's the real store? You were walking around LA and a christian family thought you were homeless because of your appearance, and invited you to eat with them ?

Also don't buy/buy into the pizza shop unless you want to buy yourself a job basically. Think about the earning potential of 1 pizza shop and if you really want to spend your time doing that. If your goal is something to do because you're bored, while your passive investments make money... go for it. If you're trying to make a lot of money, stay away.

I can see how expanding delivery to other types of food could cause people to buy less pizza. I'm not sure how much less as I think people who like pizza and eat it regularly still will, but I can see how someone with more options might opt for one of those from time to time as opposed to pizza. It makes sense.

I know the original owner and the current owner. I know all the people who own pizzerias locally...

I didn't go into details about it....

Small businesses like being paid cash LOL.

It always surprised me that you have't opened up a bar or a brewery or something related to beer. Or at least brew your own beer for profit.

:1orglaugh

Never denied any of this as this is obvious (and exactly what I said - other foods cutting out a portion of pizza deliveries).
I just heard some sort of uncertainty whether pizza delivery will be around. Like even if you had 1% doubt, I would say it is obvious that 100.00% pizza deliveries will be around 10, 20 and 50 years from now.
It is not a thing to have even 0.01% doubt about :)

good luck with your venture rochard, pizza´s lush :thumbsup

See you on bar rescue!

Check the recent stock prices of any of he big pizza places. Sales are down.

Cocktail sausage pizza sounds good

years ago, the local family ran a pizza store in a small illinois town

they gave away free pizzas to everyone on christmas day

then they got busted when pizza containers were discovered full of drugs


https://www.upi.com/Archives/1984/04...8232450421200/


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Only fags talk about their money publicly.

Like people who slip in "we already own a few bricks and mortar business already". Wink wink. HONK HONK.

Think better of me please.. I need self affirmation.. I'm good.. I'm successful.. Everyone likes me.. I promise..

This whole thread is fucking weak. God damn it "rock hard". Don't go out like a limp wristed cunt who has ego issues. Rise up, understand you know nothing, listen to the void, then proceed forward with new eyes and see the thing for the first time.

You are breaking our hearts.