2017 is Gonna…
2017 is gonna kick ass! “or kick butt” as my friend Eric corrected me when I offered this at the end of a New Year’s toast in front of his...
Freaky Good Guy
When I was going to school at the University of Illinois back in the 80’s, a sandwich shop opened up on Green Street that we all started going to. They...
Three of My Favorite Things
In the summer of 1982 my friend Joey from my Freshman dorm asked me to go to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) with him. He told me just...
Pizza Sellouts
My daughter Keely is a poor college kid in Madison, Wisconsin. Actually, she’s also a beautiful, recently married young woman, but “poor college kid” sounds better for the purposes of...
Why Does Toppers Pizza Exist?
A couple weeks ago I said I was pissed off that the big pizza chains are selling cheese of questionable character (and I’m still pissed off about it). In that article...
Robots to Deliver for Toppers
Dateline August 9, 2041 Toppers Pizza is on track to deploy its Pizzabots worldwide next month. The acquisition of Toppers by Google in 2030 launched a series of incredible restaurant...
Proud to Be a Chain!
I recently read a customer review where the person said they loved Toppers, but they preferred to eat at a local place! I have to admit that I didn’t know how...
How Toppers is like Apple and Buffalo Wild Wings
I love introducing people to Toppers. I am regularly in a group or with a person who wants to know more about whom and what Toppers is: franchise prospects, magazine...
Sometimes it’s a Prize Fight
I’m average. I have tried to teach my kids that you don’t have to be the fastest, or the smartest, or the tallest, or the strongest, or have the best...
The Best Legal Advice I Ever Got
Over 25 years of doing business I’m pretty confident I’ve earned a law degree…and paid for it. Attorneys are expensive, particularly bad ones, so I have settled in with a...
