In the last 2 months I have personally inspected the dough at (almost) every single Toppers store. I’ve looked at (and sometimes touched and used) the dough on the counter, and I have looked at the “use next” dough in...
Life sometimes hands you great “start-over” opportunities, and other times, you have to make your own. In either case, the key to starting over is going bold. I just had a visit with a new Area Supervisor, recently promoted from...
YOUR attitude is everything. EVERYONE on your team is watching you. They are deciding what matters, what they like, what they don’t like, and whether they are succeeding or failing based on what you say and do. I have met...
Robin and I are 8 days into our World Tour of all Toppers Pizza stores. It has been an absolutely fun adventure, and it has been great work. It is impacting me. Thus far we have been in 13 stores...
People say things like that to me about Toppers all the time And my canned response is always: “There’s a lot of people that built Toppers.” What has it taken to build Toppers? TIME. We all invest our time to...
Hey Toppers Nation! We all know we have something special at Toppers. This isn’t a job; it’s a way of life. It’s a family, it’s purpose. In the last 2 years, while the world has been having various meltdowns and...
Six weeks ago was one of the scariest business weeks of my entire life. That was the week that the shit was first hitting the fan: Universities were closing, the NBA stopped playing, March Madness was cancelled, and businesses and...
Hey good Pizza People! I want to share some exciting news. I have made a deal with UW Badger (and soon to be NFL) star running back Jonathan Taylor to be my partner in the 4 Madison Toppers stores. Those...
I have never been prouder to be a Toppers Pizza Team Member! Along with all the world, we are each carrying our version of fear: fear of the virus, fear of losing our jobs or livelihood, fear of the unknown! ...
I’m back! A lot of people have asked me why I haven’t blogged for a while. I can tell you that I didn’t stop writing; in fact, I’ve written more in the last few months than ever. I’m just not...
All this time I thought that Pizza Hut, Dominos and Papa Johns were making their pizza with 100% mozzarella cheese. I knew I didn’t like it as much as ours, but I didn’t know why. I just found out that...
Robin and I are 3 weeks into our Toppers World Tour. It continues to feed me. Every single time we pull up in front of a store I turn to Robin and say something like “OK, let’s bring it to...
I’ve been training for a Marathon that Robin and I are running this Sunday, so I treated myself a couple days ago to a crazy good massage. Jacklyn gave “deep tissue” a whole new meaning. Yowza! A couple of minutes...
